County Commission fills a board vacancy, approves a Downtown board appointment

By , Daily Memphian Updated: April 27, 2026 7:43 PM CT | Published: April 27, 2026 7:42 PM CT

The Shelby County Commission welcomed a new member to the group that determines defendants’ bail and other conditions for release and also approved emergency Sheriff’s Office funding.

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Shelby County Commission John Parker judicial commissioners Shelby County Sheriff's Office Henri Brooks Small Planet Works Community Strategies Inc. Memphis-Shelby Crime Commission

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Bill Dries

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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