$18 million sheriff’s lawsuit settlement returns to County Commission
Shelby County Sheriff Floyd Bonner Jr. filed a lawsuit against Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris over limits on the funding of vacant positions in the Sheriff’s office budget. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian file)
The expensive legal settlement grew more complex last week with word that the $18 million would have to be included in future Sheriff’s Office budgets.
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Shelby County Commission 2026 budget season Shelby County Sheriff's Office Lee Harris Floyd Bonner Michael Whaley Mick Wright Amber Mills Alicia Lindsey Audrey Tipton Jessica Indingaro Shelby County District Attorney’s OfficeBill 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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