Tanisha’s Law appears to be headed toward passage at city council in the new year, more than a year after it was first introduced to council and despite opposition from Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb’s administration.
The law is named after Tanisha Anderson, who died in police custody in 2014 after her family called 911 during a mental health crisis.
Her death was one of the incidents that prompted the 2014 Department of Justice investigation of the Cleveland Division of Police and consent decree in 2015…