Deputies throughout the state’s largest sheriff’s office are being issued medications, protective gloves and respirators to protect them from potentially deadly synthetic opioids that are becoming more common on Harris County streets. The distribution of this equipment is coinciding with training for de...

  July 21, 2017 – A comprehensive Internal Affairs investigation into the handling of the May 28 altercation that resulted in the death of John Hernandez has concluded, and the Harris County Sheriff’s Office is now taking steps to improve training and revise policies to ensure that best practices a...