SF News SF Supervisors Hold Their Noses, Approve Yet Another $91 Million In Overtime for Police and Sheriff’s Departments The SFPD overtime gravy train will continue running, as on Tuesday, the SF Board of Supervisors very begrudgingly appropriated another $91 million in overtime for both the police and sheriff's departments, after years of similar massive overtime requests.
SF News SF Sheriff’s Office Suspends Pre-Trial Ankle Monitor Program, Claims Courts Are Forcing Them To Suspects awaiting trial in SF will no longer be assigned to home confinement or an ankle monitor, and must proceed directly to jail, because the SF Sheriff’s Office is yanking the ankle monitor program over a legal rift on warrantless searches.
SF News COVID Outbreak at SF County Jail, More Than 40 Prisoners Infected Another COVID-19 outbreak in the correctional system, as SF County Jail is seeing a spike with 42 prisoners currently infected, though the highest numbers of infections are being reported at the County Jail No. 3 facility which is in San Bruno.
SF News SF Sheriff Paul Miyamoto Speaks Out on Recent Jail Lockdowns, Staffing Shortages After the recent SF County Jail lockdowns and complaints of severe staffing shortages, SF Sheriff Paul Miyamoto opens up about his office’s challenges, while the deputies’ union is demanding he calls in the National Guard.
SF News Two SF County Jails on Lockdown Amidst Reported Rash of Attacks on Deputies After seven staff members were reportedly attacked by inmates at SF County Jail in just a two-week span, two of the jail’s facilities have been placed on lockdown, with the incarcerated restricted to their cells and visits canceled for the time being.
SF News SF Deputy Sheriff Arrested and Charged for Allegedly Stalking, Strangling Ex-Girlfriend A 49-year-old SF deputy sheriff is currently in custody for what’s alleged to be a seven-month pattern of violence, stalking, and use of surveillance devices on his estranged partner.
SF News SF’s Ankle Monitor System Not Working, As People Still Commit Crimes, or Just Tear Them Right Off GPS ankle monitors seem like a humane alternative to jail. But they may be too humane, as suspects are still committing crimes in San Francisco while wearing them, or simply cutting them off and throwing them in the trash.
SF News Report: SF Sheriff's Deputy from Infamous 2015 Scandal Forcing Inmates to Fight Just Got Himself Rehired The SF sheriff’s deputy behind a scandal where incarcerated people were forced to fight, and sheriff’s deputies bet on them, has been rehired after winning his arbitration case.
SF Politics Calls Mount for Resignation of SF City Commissioner Currently Jailed on Sexual Assault Charges Now that SF Sheriff’s Department Oversight Board commissioner William “Tariq” Palmer II is in Sheriff’s Department custody on sexual battery charges, some at City Hall are calling for his immediate resignation, and vowing they’ll remove him if they can.
SF News Scammers Are Spoofing SF Sheriff’s Phone Number, Demanding Bogus Fines Be Paid Don't take a call if your caller ID identifies the caller as “SAN FRANCISCO COUNTY,” and don’t pay the $5,000-$10,000 fine they’re demanding for some non-existent arrest, as it’s the latest scam hitting San Francisco.
SF News SF Police, Sheriffs Making Bank On Overtime, Some With Take-Home Pay Exceeding $500K The annual salary report on how much money each San Francisco public employee makes has just been released, and SF police and sheriff’s office employees are pulling hundreds of thousands of dollars in overtime pay.
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Has A Sheriff’s Deputy Who’s Also A Drag Queen, WooWoo Monroe Here’s a new twist on the “cops at Pride” debate — the San Francisco Sheriff's Department has a deputy who moonlights as one of San Jose’s most prominent drag queens, WooWoo Monroe.
SF Politics SF Sheriffs’ Union Vows to Quit En Masse Over Vaccine Requirements in a Rambling Facebook Post The San Francisco Deputy Sheriffs' Association says officers will be “retiring early and seeking employment elsewhere” over Breed’s vaccine mandate, and the public response to the statement has invoked doors, hitting, and their asses on the way out.
SF Politics San Francisco Swears In California's First Asian American Sheriff San Francisco's 37th sheriff, Paul Miyamoto, was sworn in Wednesday afternoon at City Hall, marking the first time any California county has had an Asian American in this law enforcement role.
SF News [Update] Yet Another Gun Stolen From A Local Cop Continuing a deeply infuriating trend, the San Francisco Sheriff's Department reports that another law enforcement officer's gun was stolen out of a rental car. ABC 7 says that according to Sheriff Vicki Hennessy,
