Nearly 40 inmates are being held past their release dates in Dallas County. Some for days, others lost for months. Due to problems in the Adult Information System, or AIS, an inmate tracking system built by Info-Integration, and Tonya Brenneman -- the President.

“The command and control structure was at best very dysfunctional,” said Brenneman.

Brenneman admits -- that was before the launch in 2005. She, under oath in a deposition, told lawyers her team wasn't ready, that they were rushed by county officials.

“They said they were ready to go. In that meeting I told them they were not ready to go,” said Brenneman.

Brenneman says she has proof. “They sent some heated emails referencing they were ready,” she said.

County Commissioner John Wiley Price says Brenneman is off base. “That committee has never ever pushed anyone to launch before they were ready,” said Commissioner Price.

Price admits he wasn't a fan of Brenneman's from the beginning. “I probably didn't have a lot of confidence in the architect of the system,” said Price. But he says the County didn't hurry her along.

But Brennaman’s story continues.

“I told them I didn't think we tested it enough. They also mentioned at the time that they did not have the money or hours to be able to test the system and improve it,” said Brennaman.

And if it failed, Brenneman understood the consequences.

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