District 4's Carolyn King Arnold is seeking clarification on the wording of Prop E that could bar her from running for a fifth time.

“We wonder how that this could happen in our city, and we look at that, and we promise ourselves we would never let this happen again to the city of Dallas,” Mayor Pro Tem Tennell Atkins said ...

Mayor pro-tem Tennell Atkins amended the resolution to reach a hiring goal of 325 officers. Atkins originally proposed a goal of 300 officers this year, stepping up by 50 for each of the next two ...

"We are trying to do what the citizens said," Mayor Pro Tem Tennell Atkins said, citing budget constraints and the number of officers assigned to the DPD recruitment team. "No need to have a ...

Mayor Pro Tem Tennell Atkins voiced concern that bumping the department’s hiring goal by 150 officers was an unattainable “knee jerk.” Atkins proposed raising the goal to 300 officers for ...

The council’s public safety committee on Monday voted 3-2 to move forward with a proposal of hiring 325 new officers by the end of September instead of 250. A Dallas Police Department vehicle ...

"I don't think we should have a knee-jerk reaction to do 400 today, and then we cannot get 400 officers to be there," said Councilmember Tennell Atkins. "And that's why I made this motion to amend ...

Mayor Pro Tem Tennell Atkins, in his last term as the council member from District 8, told The Dallas Morning News that once the city removed debris from the neighborhood, officials realized there ...