Nearly 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.
Read moreA naturalized U.S. citizen claims in a federal complaint that the Ascension Parish Sheriff’s Office jailed him for three days because of his Latino last name and falsely classified him as an out-of-state fugitive, though it had in its possession his U.S. passport, Social Security card and certificate of naturalization.
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Investigators believe a gunshot that wounded a deputy outside a Los Angeles County sheriff’s station Wednesday was fired from a nearby building complex that provides housing to people with mental health issues, authorities said.
Read moreThe sheriff of a remote Oregon county closed an investigation Wednesday that began when local officials accused newspaper reporters of harassment for emailing them after office hours.
Read moreJane Doe sued Los Angeles County, its Sheriff’s Department and Det. Neil David Kimball, claiming Kimball raped her when she was 14 and he was a member of the Sex Crimes Unit, in Superior Court.
Read moreThe 10th Circuit upheld the dismissal Monday of a lawsuit stemming from claims a Denver sheriff’s officer beat a handcuffed man in a courtroom.
Read moreA federal judge ruled that a woman who pleaded guilty to resisting arrest can still bring excessive-force claims against the Louisiana sheriff she says kneed her in the back and broke her shoulder.
Read moreA Tennessee appeals court affirmed immunity for the White County sheriff who erroneously told a mother that sheriff’s officers had shot and killed her son.
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An Iowa sheriff agreed Monday to pay $10,000 to settle a federal free-speech lawsuit filed by a man who was charged with criminal harassment for a Facebook post critical of a sheriff’s deputy.
Read moreAn annual retreat in California put on by an elite club whose ranks include former Presidents Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon and powerful business leaders is facing scrutiny for excluding women after female county supervisors questioned whether they should continue allowing sheriff’s deputies to provide security for the event.
Read moreA body tasked with oversight of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said Tuesday that it may subpoena Sheriff Alex Villanueva for documents regarding his decision to halt investigations into officer misconduct.
Read moreAn Iowa man backed by the American Civil Liberties Union claims in a federal lawsuit that police violated his First Amendment rights by charging him with criminal harassment for posting criticism of a deputy sheriff on Facebook.
Read moreFlorida Governor Ron DeSantis did not exceed his authority when he suspended a sheriff over his response to two mass shootings, the Florida Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.
Read moreReviving a woman’s claims against Hunt County for its sheriff’s policy of deleting negative comments from its official Facebook page and banning users, the Fifth Circuit ruled that the plaintiff sufficiently pleaded that the county “had an explicit policy of viewpoint discrimination.”
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