Advocacy group pushing for answers on Travis County Jail [Video]

AUSTIN, Texas — The Travis County Sheriff’s Office is responding to concerns about the well-being of an inmate in the county jail.

A nonprofit advocacy group, the Austin Sanctuary Network, or ASN, rallied outside the sheriff’s office on Wednesday morning.

“The community is here to let Sheriff Hernandez know that she didn’t have to talk to us about our friend in jail, but she needs to talk to us about the fact that her family doesn’t even know what’s going on,” Peggy Morton, a volunteer with the organization, said.

In September, a family approached ASN concerned about their daughter, Daneyri, after she got into a car accident. They would not say what happened once police arrived, or what her charges were that led to her arrest. 

They …