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Alisa Haushalter, head of the Shelby County Health Department, has tendered her resignation, Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris told county commissioners Friday. The step comes as the county comes to grips with state and federal inquiries into spoiled COVID-19 vaccine doses and other problems, including reported theft of some doses and shots inappropriately given to children. Harris said Haushalter will remain in office temporarily as she winds down affairs. He plans to introduce a proposed interim director in the next few days. He also said the lower-level director who had been overseeing t...

In the wake of its most severe and prolonged weather emergency in recent history, Shelby County received another shock Tuesday with the announcement by the...

A closed-door meeting about Shelby County vaccine problems might've skirted Sunshine Law Katherine Burgess, Memphis Commercial Appeal © Joris Ray, SCS A woman given the COVID-19 vaccine on Monday, February 15, 2021. A private meeting of county commissioners, attorneys and the director of the Shelby County Health Department could have been a violation of the state’s Open Meetings Act, said Deborah Fisher, executive director of the Tennessee Coalition for Open Government. “If they’re hearing about something they’re going to be making some big decisions on, that should...

Commissioners aim to support SCHD with Pipkin Building issues Changes made at pipkin building vaccination site By Kelly Roberts | January 29, 2021 at 4:25 PM CST - Updated January 29 at 6:44 PM MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - Commissioners are saying they want to do what’s in their power to support the Shelby County Health Department in administering vaccines quickly. This comes after constituents reached out to them about the issues they had trying to get a vaccine at the Pipkin building this week. They said they reached out to the health department to understand what was going on. Some answer...

Limits on military equipment for law enforcement pass Shelby County commission Daniel Connolly, Memphis Commercial Appeal © Provided by Commercial Appeal Memphis Then-Warren County Undersheriff Shawn Lamouree poses in front of the department's Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle, or MRAP, shortly after it was acquired under the military 1033 program in 2013 in Queensbury, N.Y. The Shelby County Commission voted Monday evening to limit the Shelby County Sheriff's office and Office of Emergency Management and Homeland Security from obtaining weapons from the military �...