""Our intention is to approach them from a place of neutrality," Dill said, "to look at everything that we can get our hands on in terms of evidence, whether it's interviews, video documents, whatever we have that might be relevant to it and try to start from zero - looking at [the] sheriff's office policies and looking at the facts and do our best to figure out what happened.""
""This was the most significant impediment we had to gathering the evidence we wanted to gather in this case,""
""In our written report, we go through many of the questions we would've liked to have asked but couldn't.""
""harassment and humiliation masquerading as oversight.""
Sonoma County's civilian oversight office IOLERO faced demands for an investigation by attorneys for sheriff deputies over alleged misconduct and an incomplete review of a fatal shooting. Alden faulted Sheriff Eddie Engram's refusal to order staff to answer questions, calling that the most significant impediment to gathering evidence and noting unanswered questions in the written report. Murphy described IOLERO's approach as harassment and humiliation masquerading as oversight. Dill emphasized IOLERO's mandate of neutrality and comprehensive evidence review and said inability to question involved personnel deprived the office of key facts. Murphy filed a harassment complaint and reported no meaningful changes; county HR reportedly hired an independent investigator.
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