To: County Judge Chris Stanfield and the Dallas County Quorum Court (9 justices of the peace)
In Smith County, Texas, people in the jail grow a garden and give all of the produce to the East Texas Food Bank — more than 160,000 pounds by the food bank CEO’s estimate. Garland County, Arkansas’s detention center works with the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture and donates produce to a food bank. We ask Dallas County to start an optional jail garden with its Extension office.
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https://dallasar.countycommons.us/petitions/start-an-optional-jail-garden-with-the-c-a8b889
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When it reaches the goal it’s handed to the officials named above at a public meeting, and their answer is posted online. This is a petition to your elected officials — like the clipboard at the courthouse door. It does not put anything on the ballot; in Arkansas and most states that takes ink signatures from registered voters. Names are never shown publicly. County Commons — an independent, nonpartisan public-records project.