Travis County Sheriff’s Office on how they comply with “Sandra Bland Act”

AUSTIN (KXAN)– The Travis County Sheriff’s Office is hosted a town hall, Saturday to explain how they are complying with the “Sandra Bland Act.”
The law is named after Sandra Bland- a woman who authorities say killed herself in jail in 2015 — a few days after being arrested.
The act went into effect yesterday requiring jails to notify magistrate judges of inmates with mental illness within 12 hours — instead of the previous requirement of 72 hours. But th