SHERIFF ED GONZALEZ

Staffing issues, inmates spending more time in holding cells, staff not following medical orders, or seeing inmate patients in a timely matter continue to plague the Harris County Jail, according to a new state inspection report obtained by KPRC 2 Investigates.

There have been complaints of overcrowding, long jail stays, and understaffing for months at the Harris County Jail on Baker Street downtown.

The FBI has accepted Sheriff Ed Gonzalez’s request to review two deaths that occurred inside the Harris County Jail, the sheriff’s office announced Monday.

Community activists with the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) and the Texas Coalition of Black Democrats met with Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez on Thursday to discuss the issues plaguing the county’s jail.

The family of Roderick Brooks announced on Wednesday the filing of a federal civil rights lawsuit against multiple Harris County departments and officials, including the deputy who fired the fatal shot that claimed the life of the unarmed Black man.

A man who shot into a vehicle in an incident of road rage, which prosecutors said sparked a fire that left two toddlers severely burned, has been convicted in the crime.

Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez and deputies who knew and loved Deputy Jesse Valdez III came to support his son at his graduation Wednesday.

A body has been recovered during the search for a 16-year-old boy who fell into the water while fishing in north Harris County on Monday, deputies said.

Deputies are investigating a possible murder-suicide at a mobile home park in Crosby, Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez confirmed.

The document reads like a scene from a prison movie, yet what many perceive to remain in the fictional world, happened right at the Harris County Sheriff's Office Jail in downtown Houston. According to documents obtained by KPRC 2, a lone inmate was brutally attacked by eight other inmates while a guard with advance notice of the plan, not only allowed, but approved it to happen.

A mother has been charged with felony murder after causing a crash that killed her 4-year-old daughter and injured four other children early Sunday, according to the Harris County Sheriff’s Office.

A Houston mother says on the same night the city experienced one of the coldest nights of the year, her son was fatally and mysteriously injured after being stripped naked inside a Harris County jail cell.

HOUSTON – Sunday, Sept. 27 marks one year since Harris County Deputy Sandeep Singh Dhaliwal was killed in the line of duty. Here’s the latest on what’s being done to honor him:A new bill honoring Harris County Deputy Sandeep Singh Dhaliwal passed unanimously in the U.S. House of Representatives earlier this month. ‘Go out and be a Sandeep Dhaliwal’: Houston honors fallen deputyThe bill, led by Houston-area Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher, seeks to rename the post office along Addicks-Howell Road near the Katy Freeway after Dhaliwal. “Deputy Dhaliwal represented the very best of our community: he worked for equality, connection, and community through his life of service to others,” said Rep. Fletcher in a statement. “The Deputy Sandeep Singh Dhaliwal Post Office will serve as a permanent reminder of his service, his sacrifice, and his example for us all.

HOUSTON The Harris County Sheriffs Office has launched a new program with the goal of improving the departments interaction with people with autism. The Project Guardian program will help engage families with loved ones with autism and provide deputies with information about the person with autism, including whether they may have any special needs deputies should know about when encountering them during a call of service. We continuously work with the community to ensure we are doing all we can to best serve our residents with compassion and understanding, Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said. Project Guardian engages the community, builds positive relationships, and embraces public safety as a shared responsibility. For more information on Project Guardian or to register a loved one with autism, click here.

HOUSTON Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner is slated to speak Monday to discuss Hurricane Laura recovery. The mayor is expected to discuss the Houston Paying it Forward donation drive to assist people recovering from the hurricane, as well as COVID-19 response. KPRC 2 is scheduled to live stream the news conference. Be sure to watch in the video player at the top of this article at 3 p.m.

HOUSTON A Harris County Sheriffs deputy was charged with sexual assault after a woman reported that a uniformed deputy assault her in March, according to the Harris County Sheriffs Office. Deputy Kenneth Reed, 45, was charged with felony sexual assault Monday after a woman reported on March 18 that a uniformed deputy sexually assaulted her with his hands near the 157000 block of Bammel Village Drive. The woman told investigators that she had driven there with plans to take a walk with her young daughter, officials wrote in a release. Now that criminal charges have been accepted, an Internal Affairs review will be conducted and its findings will be presented to the Sheriffs Administrative Disciplinary Committee. Spencer told KPRC 2 that HCSO will release Reeds mugshot once he is booked into Harris County Jail.

On Tuesday, Gonzalez shared a thread of tweets on his stance on reform and defunding law enforcement agencies around the country. Im moving forward with a number of significant policy revisions, Gonzalez wrote. We prohibit the use of chokeholds, but were going to make it even more clear in policy, Gonzalez said. The time to act is now.Gonzalez said he will continue to lobby for better pay for law enforcement officers in order to attract the best qualified people to the profession. We must build momentum toward a more effective, equitable and thoughtful approach to law enforcement, Gonzalez said.