http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/16/us/sandra-bland-family-settlement-19-million-lawsuit.html 2016-09-15 15:53:17 Sandra Bland’s Family Is Said to Settle $1.9 Million Civil Suit Ms. Bland was found dead in a jail cell in Waller County, Tex., after her arrest during a traffic stop in 2015. Her family disputed the authorities’ report that she had committed suicide. === The family of Sandra Bland, the Local television stations quoted the lawyer, Cannon Lambert, as saying that the final details of the settlement had been concluded on Wednesday night. They include making changes in jail procedures and providing damages for the family. Mr. Lambert could not immediately be reached for comment early on Thursday at his Chicago office. The settlement requires the Waller County jail, where Ms. Bland’s body was found in a cell in July 2015, to pay $1.8 million of the settlement, As a condition of the settlement, Ms. Bland’s mother said, the jail must provide emergency nurses for all shifts; use automated electronic sensors to ensure accurate and timely cell checks; and actively seek the passage of additional state funds for jail intaking, inmate screening, training and additional jail support, the report said. The Texas Department of Public Safety will pay $100,000, the report said. Messages left at the department and at the jail early on Thursday were not immediately returned. Ms. Bland was in Texas to take a job at her alma mater, Prairie View A&M University, a historically black institution in East Texas, when she was pulled over by a Texas state trooper, Brian T. Encinia, on July 10. A dashcam video that was later released Trooper Encinia ordered her out of the car, threatened her with a On July 11, Ms. Bland, 28, told her siblings in Illinois that she had been arrested on a felony charge of assaulting a public servant. On July 13, Ms. Bland’s family was informed by the authorities in Waller County that she had died in her jail cell that morning, apparently in a suicide. Friends and relatives were skeptical and called for an independent autopsy. In August 2015, Geneva Reed-Veal, Ms. Bland’s mother,