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fromwww.mercurynews.com
2 weeks ago

Opinion: California promised accountability for inmate deaths in jails. A year later, no results.

California's jail death review law preserves sheriff control, lacks enforcement authority, permits redactions, and produced no completed reviews within its first year.
fromPadailypost
5 months ago

Sheriff angered by 'dirty looks'

It is unprofessional of you as a board of supervisor to be doing that to me. Have some respect,
California
fromMission Local
6 months ago

Sure, cut S.F. commissions. But not my commission.

Now, as the task force starts to weigh in on the remaining 118 advisory groups, councils, commissions and other bodies, pushback has arrived. Alongside the Treasury Oversight Committee and Treasure Island/Yerba Buena Island Citizen Advisory Board, for instance, the Sheriff's Department Oversight Board was on Wednesday's chopping block, eliciting a bevy of soul-searching questions: Does the sheriff's department truly need its own oversight board? Can the board's work, perhaps, be folded into that of the Department of Police Accountability?
SF politics
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