Miranda Suarez
Tarrant County Accountability ReporterMiranda Suarez is KERA’s Tarrant County accountability reporter.
Before coming to North Texas, she was the Lee Ester News Fellow at Wisconsin Public Radio, where she covered statewide news, including election security and politics, as well as local police and military issues in the city of Madison.
Originally from Massachusetts, Miranda started her journalism career at WTBU, Boston University’s student radio station. Her first public radio jobs were at WBUR, where she was a newscast intern and later a fellow on the business desk. During an internship at Boston 25 News, she conducted an investigation into mental health counseling services at Massachusetts colleges and universities that was nominated for a 2019 New England Emmy.
Miranda is always looking for stories of the weird and wonderful — whether it’s following a robot around a grocery store or sampling cheeses at a Wisconsin cheese contest. Outside of journalism, she loves reading, road trips and Dungeons & Dragons.
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Gabriel Piñón, who is autistic and has intellectual and developmental disabilities, was booked into the jail on June 8.
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Garcia, the previous administrator, submitted his resignation in April after facing political pressure from Tarrant County Judge Tim O’Hare, he said.
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The Tarrant County Jail has a history of complaints about medical neglect.
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The Legislature put up money to establish 150 more psychiatric beds for inmates at local hospitals statewide and created a $100 million bucket for criminal justice-related mental health services.
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G.K. Maenius is the longest serving county administrator in Texas, according to the county.
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Tarrant County politicians want to shut down Temptations Cabaret, a strip club near the Parker County line they call "a hotbed of crime."
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Tarrant County Judge Tim O'Hare called for a state investigation into an all-ages drag show drag queen Salem Moon hosted in Fort Worth in March.
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On May 24, 2022, a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde. People gathered to remember them across the state on the anniversary.
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Tarrant County formed a 287(g) agreement with ICE in 2017, allowing some jailers to work as immigration agents.
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A woman killed after returning from a trip to Colorado to get an abortion had told Dallas police officers — weeks earlier — that her boyfriend repeatedly had attacked her.
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Tulips FTW hosted the all-ages drag show in March. The host says conservatives are wrong about what the show was like.
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The Tarrant County Jail has come under scrutiny for the number of jailhouse deaths in recent years, as well as the treatment of people behind bars.