Tarrant County plans to outsource jail staffing, after years of struggling to hire enough detention officers.

Tarrant County commissioners voted 3-2 Tuesday to approve a two-year contract with Recana Recruiting and Staffing Solutions, to try and reduce the overtime hours jailers have to work.

The company brings people in from around the country and helps them get licensed to work in the jail, county jail chief Shannon Herklotz said.

"They'll follow the same policies, procedures, everything that our staff does,” he said. “It will just help us combat our vacancies.”

KERA News has reached out to County Administrator Chandler Merritt to clarify the total expected cost of the contract, which was not included in the meeting’s agenda documents. He said he would check with the county purch

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