A FACEBOOK POST. A FELONY ARREST. A CITY HALL IN CRISIS

TEXAS NEWS SPOTLIGHT SPECIAL
  • DMC photo illustration using provided Public photograph from the City of Trinidad and public records from Jennifer Combs Facebook page. .
    DMC photo illustration using provided Public photograph from the City of Trinidad and public records from Jennifer Combs Facebook page. .

    A woman from a town near Trinidad spent nearly a day in jail after she asked Facebook users to document the city’s water complaints. A grand jury declined to indict her. Then the judge who signed the warrant started asking what police had left out, and by mid-July the whole City Hall staff had resigned.

    Long before Jennifer Combs was arrested over a Facebook post about Trinidad’s drinking water, pe…