{"id":85110,"date":"2025-07-23T05:26:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T05:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/85110\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T05:26:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T05:26:12","slug":"fort-worth-council-member-questions-late-application-by-ex-dallas-police-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/85110\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Worth council member questions late application by ex-Dallas police chief"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fort Worth city council member Chris Nettles joined pastor and community activist Rev. Kyev Tatum in raising alarm bells about former Dallas police chief Eddie Garc\u00eda\u2019s application for the city\u2019s top cop.<\/p>\n

Tatum alleges Garc\u00eda applied after the June 4 deadline with the assistance of former Fort Worth police chief Neil Noakes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis isn\u2019t just unfair to the qualified candidates who honored the rules \u2014 it\u2019s a slap in the face to the integrity of the entire selection process,\u201d Tatum said in a Facebook post outlining his allegations<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhether it\u2019s illegal or not, it\u2019s certainly unethical,\u201d he said in the post.<\/p>\n

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When reached by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Tatum pointed to city human resource records as evidence Garc\u00eda had applied after the application deadline.<\/p>\n

The Star-Telegram filed a records request July 1 asking for the list of applicants, but city attorneys are asking Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to block the release, citing privacy concerns.<\/p>\n

Nettles said the late application brought back concerns about a \u201cbaked process\u201d similar to those raised during the hiring of city manager Jay Chapa<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He argued Garc\u00eda\u2019s late application should disqualify him from consideration.<\/p>\n

Interim city spokesperson Sana Syed said Noakes did not play a role in Garc\u00eda\u2019s application or selection as a finalist.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe City\u2019s search firm, Mosaic Public Partners, spoke with Chief Garcia about the position the week of June 9 (the deadline to apply was June 4). Because it was still early in the process and all the applications had not yet been screened, City Manager Jay Chapa allowed him to submit his application,\u201d Syed said in an email to the Star-Telegram.<\/p>\n

She added this isn\u2019t unusual for searches of this type, noting that cities will often keep the door open for qualified candidates.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn fact, before the posting was made public, the City asked Mosaic to make us aware of any candidates who expressed interest past the deadline,\u201d Syed said.<\/p>\n

Garc\u00eda submitted his application while all the other applications were being vetted, and his resume was screened at the same time as everyone else, Syed said.<\/p>\n

\u201cChief Garcia did not receive special privileges. He submitted his application in a reasonable window that still allowed this process to be fair to all candidates,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Tatum called the city\u2019s response \u201cdeflection 101\u201d and said Garc\u00eda should be removed from consideration.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe rules are the rules, otherwise there is no integrity in the process,\u201d he said in a text message.<\/p>\n

Syed did not immediately respond to Nettles\u2019 statement, but she acknowledged receiving a Star-Telegram inquiry about the statement.<\/p>\n

Garc\u00eda was announced on July 14 as one of four finalists for the open Fort Worth police chief position along with current interim chief Robert Alldredge, former Dallas police assistant chief Vernon Hale and Los Angeles police deputy chief Emada Tingirides.<\/p>\n

Tingirides took herself out of contention on July 21<\/a>, citing a promotion from her position as deputy chief to assistant chief overseeing five Los Angeles Police Department bureaus, according to a city of Fort Worth press release.<\/p>\n

Fifty-one candidates applied for the open position, of which nine were interviewed before the four finalists were selected.<\/p>\n

Residents will have an opportunity to question the three remaining finalists at a forum at New City Hall at 5:30 p.m. Aug. 14.<\/p>\n

Chapa will then make the final selection before getting council approval sometime in September.<\/p>\n

Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fort Worth city council member Chris Nettles joined pastor and community activist Rev. Kyev Tatum in raising alarm…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":85111,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,4219,1596,7290,14842,7371,7372,5292,7375,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-85110","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-dallas","11":"tag-dallas-county","12":"tag-dallas-police","13":"tag-fort-worth","14":"tag-fortworth","15":"tag-public-safety","16":"tag-tarrant-county","17":"tag-texas","18":"tag-tx","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-united-states-of-america","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114900892537314565","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}