Sheriff's Association President Blasts Texas Over Growing Mental Hospital Waitlist
Last week's meeting got off to a smooth enough start. Kayla Kates-Brown from Texas’ Health and Human Services Commission, or HHS, read off a few changes to the meeting itinerary. She collected votes from attending members to proceed.
The plodding tedium you’d expect from a virtual state government subcommittee meeting seemed to have settled over the proceedings at the Capitol. The subcommittee members kept their cameras off while HHS deputy executive commissioner Scott Schalchlin updated them on the agency’s efforts to expand the capacity of Texas’ state mental hospital system.
His updates didn’t satisfy Sheriff Dennis Wilson, the committee’s chairman. That's when sparks started flying.
“I’m going to direct a question to you since you’re new to our group: I speak for the Sheriff’s Association of Texas … and those of us who run county jails, we simply want to know what the plan is,” Wilson said.
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