A civilian commission tasked with oversight of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department voted unanimously Thursday to pursue legal action against Sheriff Alex Villanueva, a day after he defied a subpoena to testify on measures to protect incarcerated people against Covid-19 infection in county jails.
Read moreA federal court in Texas ruled in favor of a sheriff’s deputy sued by a woman he shot after a roadside disturbance. The unarmed woman said she reached into her waistband because she intended to “display her buttocks” to the deputy. She also claimed she was shot in retaliation for yelling “I hate America.”
Read moreFormer Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel cannot pursue his due process claims against Governor Ron DeSantis or Florida’s Senate President Bill Galvano, a federal court in the state ruled. Israel was suspended on grounds of “neglect of duty and incompetence” in connection with two mass shootings: the 2017 Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport shooting and the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
Read moreA federal court in Wisconsin ruled that two black pastors may pursue their equal protection claims against two sheriff’s deputies who asked them if they had guns or drugs in their car while they were legally parked on the side of a highway while waiting for a tow truck after their boat trailer got a flat tire. The pastors have adequately alleged that they were intentionally discriminated against and treated differently than a similarly situated white woman.
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The popular Netflix docuseries “Tiger King” prompted a Florida sheriff to reopen a cold case involving the missing former husband of the big cat sanctuary owner featured in the show.
Read moreThe conviction of a former sheriff’s department captain for his role in the overseas money laundering of a notorious New England fishing magnate known as “the Codfather” was upheld by the First Circuit late Friday.
Read moreIn a workers’ compensation case stemming from the death of on off-duty deputy sheriff in a car accident, the Texas Supreme Court ruled that the officer was “engaged in a law-enforcement activity” at the time of his death because he was operating a marked patrol car with the county’s permission.
Read moreDescending from unmarked cars, four sheriff’s officers in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, shot Daviri Oseanus Robertson to death, though he was unarmed and merely sitting in a rental car outside a restaurant, Robertson’s family claims in a federal complaint.
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A group of Illinois sheriffs sued the state attorney general Monday over a law prohibiting police from arresting anyone based solely on their immigration status, which the sheriffs argue forces them to choose between enforcing state or federal law but not both.
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Joe Arpaio, self-proclaimed “America’s toughest sheriff,” struck out with the Ninth Circuit on Thursday in his bid to toss a criminal contempt conviction after President Donald Trump pardoned him in 2017.
Read moreA federal court in California granted a preliminary injunction to two members of Black Lives Matter, ordering the Sacramento County Sheriff to “unban” them from his Facebook page, finding that the plaintiffs have demonstrated that the page is a public forum and the sheriff “engaged in viewpoint discrimination” when he banned them.
Read moreJane Doe claims in federal court that Grundy County, Tenn., sheriff’s Officer Mark Nunley — who has been fired — sexually assaulted her repeatedly while she was an inmate.
Read moreA former employee sued St. Tammany Parish Sheriff Randy Smith and two of his officers in federal court, claiming they falsely arrested and maliciously prosecuted him after he criticized the sheriff’s department, accusing him of “criminal defamation,” though the Louisiana Supreme Court has thrown out that law.
Read moreNearly three years after his conviction on federal obstruction charges, former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca was ordered to begin serving his three-year prison sentence after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to take his appeal.
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A Tennessee sheriff’s deputy already facing a wave of civil lawsuits appeared in criminal court Friday to hear a 44-count indictment accusing him of charges ranging from reckless driving to stalking to sexual battery and rape.
Read moreAn 18-year-old white man has been arrested after a popular black sheriff in Alabama was shot to death Saturday evening, and condolences poured in to Lowndes County from law enforcement officers nationwide.
Read moreA former San Diego County Sheriff’s Department captain was indicted Friday on charges he allegedly ran an illegal firearms-trafficking business in part to cultivate future donors for his anticipated campaign for sheriff of San Diego County.
Read moreA federal judge ruled late Tuesday that Georgia sheriff’s deputies cannot place “no trick-or-treat” warning signs in the yards of three registered sex offenders this Halloween.
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A South Carolina sheriff faces up to a year in prison and will lose his job after a jury found him guilty Thursday of misconduct in office.
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