Bret Jaspers
Dallas Accountability ReporterBret Jaspers is a reporter for KERA. His stories have aired nationally on the BBC, NPR’s newsmagazines, and APM’s Marketplace. He collaborated on the series Cash Flows, which won a 2020 Sigma Delta Chi award for Radio Investigative Reporting. He's a member of Actors' Equity, the professional stage actors union.
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Dallas County juvenile justice system takes longer to finish cases than peer counties. And that could lead to worse outcomes for youths.
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Texas is at the center of a nationwide war between state and local authorities. It’s an escalating dispute over who has what power — and when.
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The Dallas County Jail grapples with a huge number of mentally ill people in its custody, but a new program designed to help reduce that — and get help to people with mental illness — isn’t filling its beds.
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The Dallas County health department has identified a new location in Southern Dallas for HIV testing, immunizations and other care for chronic diseases.
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Property taxes are due Tuesday at 11:59 p.m., come hell or frozen water.
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Dallas commissioners told the Texas Health and Human Services Commission it has 30 days to find suitable mental health beds or face a lawsuit.
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Felony case counts in Dallas County are still higher than they were before the COVID-19 pandemic. That’s prompted officials to extend a special backlog court to handle them.
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J.J. Koch, a frequent critic of the criminal court bench in Dallas County, will now serve on it.
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An effort to curb asthma among children in select zip codes in Dallas County has led to a drop in pediatric emergency department visits among some children.
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The lack of space at state mental hospitals has commissioners and staff looking elsewhere.
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It’s been about three months since Sophia Lewis’ son Shamond died after being arrested and taken to the Dallas County Jail.
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Shamond Lewis had a history of serious mental illness when Dallas police officers arrested him in late September for an aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. His mother said he was experiencing a mental health crisis.