The veteran lawmen-politicians are vying to see who will oversee the largest sheriff’s office in Texas, and third largest in the country.
Eileen Grench
Eileen Grench covers public safety for the Houston Landing, where two of her primary areas of focus will be the Houston Police Department and Harris County Sheriff’s Office. She is returning to local news after a year as the national justice reporter at The Daily Beast. Eileen previously covered juvenile justice for a nonprofit newsroom, THE CITY, in New York as a Report for America Corps member. At THE CITY, she was a 2021 Livingston Award finalist for her coverage of inequities in child welfare, and won the Newswomen’s Club of New York Front Page Award in Local Investigative Reporting for her series on education in juvenile detention centers during the coronavirus pandemic. Eileen also worked as an investigative reporting fellow at the Global Migration Project at Columbia University, covering immigration issues for outlets such as The New Yorker, The Intercept, The Nation and Documented.
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Local authorities decry Pemex ‘failure to communicate’ during deadly chemical leak in Deer Park
The Harris County Sheriff’s Office and Fire Marshal’s Office are investigating the hydrogen sulfide leak that killed at least two and injured 35.
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Afraid to report police misconduct to the police? There’s another option.
The Houston Police Accountability Collaborative hotline aims to be a resource for residents who have experienced police officers’ abuses of power.
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Harris County Sheriff’s Office to expand CIRT program pairing cops with clinicians
The county approved a $560,000 bump to the sheriff’s office budget to boost the number of teams with clinicians trained to respond to mental health crises.
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Harris County prosecutors: Probe finds no evidence of crimes connected to 2022 election
District Attorney Kim Ogg said investigators have completed a probe of the contested election, which was marred by administrative issues.
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New Houston Police Chief J. Noe Diaz pledges to expand HPD, restore community trust
New Police Chief Diaz said restoring trust in the community after the suspended cases scandal and hiring more officers were top priorities.
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Over a thousand attend burial of Harris County Sheriff’s Deputy Fernando Esqueda in Houston
Over a thousand mourners came to honor the life of a fallen Harris County Sheriff’s Office deputy on Friday morning at Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in downtown Houston. Fernando Esqueda, a five-year veteran of the department, was shot and killed in the early morning hours on July 11 while surveilling the house of an […]
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‘TIRED OF #HOUSTONSTRONG’: How Houston’s poet laureate captured the city’s collective grief
Aris Brown’s callout for personal feelings and stories about yet another hurricane hitting Houston sparked her latest work.
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Second suspect charged with murder in killing of Harris County Sheriff’s Office deputy
Dremone Eugene Francis, 26, of northeast Harris County, faces charges in connection with the fatal shooting last week of Deputy Fernando Esqueda.
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Suspect charged with capital murder in killing of Harris County Sheriff’s Office deputy
Ronald Palmer Jr., 44, is accused of killing Deputy Fernando Esqueda as the law enforcement officer staked out a vehicle near his home.