In some regions, the medical examiner is under the authority of the Sheriff. This problem was highlighted in 2017 in San Joaquin County, CA, when both the forensic pathologists resigned. Their resignation announcement informed the public that the Sheriff-Coroner was overruling their findings on deat...
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Good idea. Instead of just installing ghost bikes at the site of fatal crashes,advocates in the UK left a half dozen on the steps of the county hallto represent the six people killed on county roads so far this year — and to make sure officials and the press actually saw them. A$29...
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Miya Ponsetto, 22, was arrested and jailed by Ventura County Sheriff’s deputies after they spotted her driving near her home in Piru, northwest of Los Angeles, department Captain Eric Buschow told the Associated Press. Charges against her were not announced. NYPD detectives had flown to Cal...
Phil Ritter was disturbed by the mass sterilization. He went to the Marin County sheriff’s office, thinking, “Surely there had to be a law against that sort of thing.” There wasn’t. The authorities informed Synanon attorneys, who told Ritter not to come back, leaving his wife and chi...
She previously covered the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, focusing on accountability stories and writing about failures by officials to comply with transparency laws. She and her colleagues exposed the cover-up of misconduct by deputies who shared photos of Kobe Bryant’s helicopter crash ...
The next day the Times’s security chief, a former Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department official, made some inquiries and discovered that the pursuit had begun when a man called the CHP and said he was tailing a drunk and would direct units to his location. The caller said he was a...
“A lot of the local police chiefs here, we don’t believe it will survive a constitutional challenge. ... We have no training whatsoever to determine whether an individual is here in this country legally,” said Sheriff Eddie Guerra of Hidalgo County. He...
This problem was highlighted in 2017 in San Joaquin County, CA, when both the forensic pathologists resigned. Their resignation announcement informed the public that the Sheriff-Coroner was overruling their findings on death in custody. Subsequent legal changes were made to hopefully remedy the ...