County Commission takes small step toward new or renovated jail
A Shelby County sheriff’s badge is displayed inside 201 Poplar. (Courtesy Shelby County Sheriff’s Office file)
The passage of a resolution Monday sets in motion a planning process that will probably not yield any recommendations on a way forward and its cost until a new County Mayor and County Commission are past taking their oaths of office in September.
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Shelby County Commission new jail David Bradford Michael Whaley Shante Avant Amber Mills Britney Thornton Alicia Lindsey Shelby County Sheriff's Office Shelby Farms Greenline judicial commissioners Shelby County property tax rate recapture tax rate Javier BaileyBill Dries on demand
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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