There are 27 article(s) tagged Shelby County Clerk's Office:

• January 2025

  • City auto-fee hike not collected for seven months, leaves $7M pothole

    The city’s vehicle-registration fee was supposed to double — from $30 to $60 — as of July 1. But the Shelby County Clerk’s office has not implemented the change. 

    By Samuel Hardiman January 29, 2025

• November 2024

  • Sanford: It’s time to end protracted effort to oust Wanda Halbert

    I say it’s time to end the costly courtroom haggling. It’s clear that Halbert is not leaving on her own, and conditions in the Clerk’s Office don’t appear to have further deteriorated. And soon she’ll be a lame duck.

    By Otis Sanford November 28, 2024

• July 2024

  • County Commission to review raises, a veto override and clerk’s office lease

    The Shelby County Board of Commissioners will discuss a 6% pay raise for employees, could reopen a Land Bank ordinance and vote on a new lease for Millington office space for the Shelby County clerk’s office.

    By Bill Dries July 21, 2024

• June 2024

  • Wanda Halbert ouster suit dismissed

    Shelby County Circuit Court Judge Felicia Corbin-Johnson has dismissed the lawsuit attempting to oust Wanda Halbert as Shelby County Clerk.

    By Bill Dries June 18, 2024

• May 2024

  • Sanford: Halbert’s noble start in public life is now an exhausting disaster

    Whether Wanda Halbert is removed from office or not, this community has grown tired of her. Except for a handful of apologists, everyone is weary of the incompetence, excuses and double talk.

    By Otis Sanford May 23, 2024

  • ‘Mere negligence’ not enough for ouster, Halbert’s lawyer says

    Asked about Halbert’s statements, Mayor Lee Harris told The Daily Memphian: “I’m shocked by everything you just said. The rabbit hole has gotten deeper.”

    By Bill Dries May 14, 2024

  • Support for Wanda Halbert’s raise requests vanishes with legal move to oust her

    Two resolutions to fund the clerk’s office, including a pay raise, were withdrawn from the County Commission’s agenda Monday, May 6, without comment. 

    By Bill Dries May 07, 2024

• March 2024

  • More audits of Halbert’s office likely after special prosecutor’s visit

    Hamilton County District Attorney General Coty Wamp and her investigators finished their two-day visit to look at problems within the Shelby County Clerk’s office. 

    By Bill Dries March 22, 2024

  • Wanda Halbert postpones meeting with County Commission on inaccurate revenue reports

    Less than 24 hours before what was expected to be a pointed question-and-answer session, Halbert emailed commissioners, saying she wouldn’t be able to attend and asking to put it off for a month.

    By Bill Dries March 06, 2024

• November 2023

  • Issues grow for Wanda Halbert as lease request in Millington is revealed

    Millington wants the Shelby County Clerk to pay for use of the building owned by the suburb. However, after 18 months, no agreement has been met.

    By Abigail Warren November 22, 2023

  • Shelby County Clerk’s Millington office closed Tuesday

    The office simply had a closed sign on the door with a clock indicating they would reopen at 8 a.m. There was no explanation for why none of the employees were present.

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    County Commission wants ‘status update’ from Wanda Halbert prosecutor

    By Abigail Warren November 15, 2023

  • Bailey: The title is Shelby County clerk. Not exclusively Memphis clerk.

    “Of all six outlying cities in Shelby County, only one — Millington on the far north reaches of the county— has a satellite location for Halbert’s office.”

    By Clay Bailey November 10, 2023

  • Wanda Halbert denies being evicted from Poplar Plaza office

    Wanda Halbert addressed the sudden closing of the County Clerk’s Poplar Plaza office at a press conference Thursday, Nov. 9. She maintains the exit was not an “eviction” but acknowledged her office missed paying two months’ rent and called it “trivial.”

    By Bill Dries November 09, 2023

  • Amid Poplar Plaza office closure, County Clerk focuses on new location

    Shelby County Chief Administrative Officer Harold Collins said Monday, Nov. 6, County Clerk Wanda Halbert has fallen behind on rent payments for her office in the Poplar Plaza shopping center. Halbert makes no mention of past-due rent.

    By Bill Dries November 07, 2023

• June 2023

  • Judge names special prosecutor to investigate Wanda Halbert

    The Shelby County District Attorney General’s Office requested an outside prosecutor “due to the need to avoid a conflict of interest and any appearance of impropriety.”

    By Julia Baker, Bill Dries June 29, 2023

  • Shelby County Clerk’s office will stay in Poplar Plaza

    Janet Hooks, the county commission’s special adviser to Clerk Wanda Halbert, also says the commission should restore $1 million in funding to Halbert’s office that it cut earlier so she can fill positions with new employees instead of moving existing employees around.

    By Bill Dries June 14, 2023

  • Long-awaited Riverdale clerk’s office quietly doing business

    The long-awaited and discussed office of the Shelby County Clerk at 3785 Riverdale Road opened this week after many delays. 

    By Bill Dries June 10, 2023

• April 2023

  • Shelby County Commission appoints Wanda Halbert’s special adviser

    The Shelby County Commission chose former city council member Janet Hooks to be Wanda Halbert’s special adviser.

    By Bill Dries April 05, 2023

• March 2023

  • Halbert asserts independence in response to county mayor’s ultimatum

    Shelby County Clerk Wanda Halbert says she has a back-up plan to move the clerk’s office now at Poplar Plaza to an old bank branch at Quince and Perkins.

    By Bill Dries March 24, 2023

• January 2023

  • Anticipating February ‘rush,’ Halbert to close Downtown vehicle registration for two weeks

    Less than 24 hours before the partial closing begins, the Shelby County Clerk says it is to “stay ahead of February’s anticipated rush.”

    By Bill Dries January 24, 2023

• December 2022

  • County Clerk’s new Riverdale office misses another opening deadline

    The new Shelby County Clerk’s office missed a second opening deadline of Dec. 1.

    By Bill Dries December 01, 2022

• October 2022

  • County Clerk misses Halloween office opening deadline

    County chief administrative officer Harold Collins says the office is fully equipped, but Shelby County Clerk Wanda Halbert says the office won’t open until early December, missing a deadline set by Shelby County commissioners. 

    By Bill Dries October 31, 2022

  • County Commission to fill school board vacancy, consider goals for clerk’s office

    At the Monday, Oct. 17, session, commissioners will also take a final vote on a change — proposed by a commissioner who once ran afoul of an ethics investigation — to who appoints the county ethics officers.

    By Bill Dries October 16, 2022

• September 2022

  • Halbert’s ‘whistleblower’ claim ‘nonsense’ by legal standards

    Employment and labor attorney Alan Crone, a former Memphis City Council member, says the claim of “whistleblower” status by County Clerk Wanda Halbert is “nonsense” and likened it to an episode of “The Office.”

    By Bill Dries September 24, 2022

  • Halbert says ‘whistleblower’ status should make her immune to recall

    Shelby County Clerk Wanda Halbert reacts to talk of legislation lowering the number of signatures needed to force a recall election. She also continues to blame County Mayor Lee Harris’ administration for a backlog of license plates and tags that she says has been cleared up.

    By Bill Dries September 22, 2022