Dallas County's juvenile director goes on the offensive in Tuesday's commissioner court meeting after employees' raises were withheld.
Children also complained to their parents of unsanitary conditions and inadequate or poor quality food.has obtained results of an inspection conducted days later, on July 7, by Texas Juvenile Justice Department officials. This Compliance Performance Rating Profile, completed on Sept. 13, details results of an inspection, and it appears to confirm many of the families’ allegations.
Commissioner John Wiley Price opened Tuesday’s discussion at the meeting, saying that the way commissioners are treating department heads like Beatty is “disrespectful.”agreed in a 3-2 vote to withhold raises for 13 juvenile department employees — including Beatty.Beatty said the commissioners’ decision is “unconscionable” and “clearly a targeted campaign of governmental retaliation” for his efforts to withhold juvenile records from commissioners’ subpoena.
Beatty said at the commissioners’ meeting that it was he who made the decision to withhold the records and his staff’s salaries should not be withheld as punishment.
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