Deputies with the Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office served a total of 427 mental health warrants in 2024, officials said. In those cases, the people taken into custody were transported to mental ...

On May 11, county officials announced a mental health jail diversion center. Its goal will be to keep low-level crime offenders out of jail and save millions in the process.

Tarrant County’s neighbor to the east is making similar efforts to keep mentally ill people out of jail and off long waitlists for state mental health beds. Dallas County hired a consultant last ...

Tarrant County leaders want the state’s help to shorten the long waitlist for state mental health beds – a waitlist that forces many people to sit in jail instead of a hospital.

The Tarrant County Commissioners Court has renewed a contract with My Health My Resources to provide mental health and intellectual disability services in the county jail. The commissioners voted ...

The issue of mental health and criminal justice in Tarrant County has been an ongoing conversation for several years. Most recently, a lawsuit was filed by the family of an inmate who died by ...

More adults have mental health concerns. These Tarrant County groups are looking to help By Lauren Castle. Updated May 20, 2022 4:34 PM.

FORT WORTH, Texas — Tarrant County officials are working to bring a mental health jail diversion center that would serve as an alternative to putting people behind bars. This week, leaders said ...

Tarrant County commissioners will consider expanding the types of charges accepted for admission to its mental health jail diversion center. The diversion center opened in January 2022 with a goal ...

As Tarrant County commissioners issued a proclamation adopting May as Mental Health Awareness Month, the family of Anthony Ray Johnson Jr. called for accountability and change in the sheriff’s ...

Tarrant County, Texas, Funds Mental Health Alert System It will ensure the county meets state law mandating such defendants be identified early. May 22, 2024 • ...

The family of Anthony Ray Johnson Jr., who died in the Tarrant County jail in April, called out county officials for failing to give him the care he needed during a mental health crisis.