Family of man who died in Tarrant jail demands commissioners seek sheriff’s removal

“The whole intent of the provision in the Sandra Bland Act was to ensure that it was an independent, unbiased, objective investigation, something that the public could trust, that policymakers could trust, that it isn’t self-interested the way it would be if it’s an agency investigating itself,” said Michele Deitch, the director of the Prison and Jail Innovation Lab at UT Austin and a consultant on the bill.