San Mateo County removes sheriff after a violation report

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The first time in the history of California was a district sheriff removed from the office.

The San Mateo District Supervisory Authority Council voted unanimously to remove Sheriff Christina Corps From office today, nearly a year after a damn report by a retired district judge, it has found that she may have violated the county’s policy on neatism and controversial relations.

Removing it was not as simple as fire someone. A successful measure was needed to vote on San Mateo County, which asked voters to choose whether to change the county charter to grant the council this power.

“Today is the end of a tragic, destructive and rudely expensive chapter in the history of San Mateo County,” said leader Jackie Spier, a former member of the Congress. “I had high hopes for the Sheriff Corps. I voted for her, kept a town hall with her for crime prevention. She had great ideas for modernizing the office.

“So it’s tragic to see your time when the sheriff comes down to it.”

Corps still has 14 days to appeal its removal. San Mateo County lawyer John Nibbelin said the district of the county would serve as a sheriff.

The body, which appeared in a blue suit at the board meeting, is definitely arguing against her removal. She said she was selected as a reformer, and the changes she tried to push through the sheriff’s office were greeted with first resistance, after the old guard of power in San Mateo County began to work.

“I sacrificed my peace, my marriage to this job,” Corps said. “If I lose my position today, I will go out with my head, held very high. I never bow to intimidation.

“You can remove me from the office, but you won’t delete the truth.”

Corpus’s legal team, which now includes a one -off member of President Barack Obama’s cabinet, made half an hour a presentation, arguing against the legality of its removal.

“The change in culture is difficult,” said Tom Perez, who was the secretary of Obama Labor and former chairman of the Democratic National Committee. “From the first day there were people who did not want her to succeed.”

San Mateo County, one of the largest in the country, pays the legal bills of the Corps. If it is removed after two weeks, it will be responsible for its court costs from that moment.

Last week, retired judge James Emerson found a reason to remove the body after a two -week process that included a cascade of allegations depicting a chaotic picture of her two plus years of service.

Emerson found a corps had “a close personal relationships Outside the borders of professional working relationships ”with a subordinate, illegally ordered the arrest of the President of the Union of Sheriff’s Union and Revenge against a Captain, who refused to arrest the president of the Union because it believes that this violates state legislation.

If the hull is not removed, it will return to a unique six -year period provided Elected members of the law enforcement agencies in 2022 When the state moved the district sheriff and the district prosecutors to the calendar of the presidential election year.

About 25 people spoke during the public commentary period on board. Some came to praise the corpus, others to bury her, no more than the daughter of the chairman of the sheriff’s deputy, whom Corps ordered arrested last year – something Judge Emerson found he was paid.

The Sheriff’s service claims that Union President Carlos Tapia is doing Union business during company time and falsifies the recording of his working hours. But investigation The District Prosecutor’s Office of San Mateo County found no reason to charge Tapia, determining that the mistakes of his time cards were clerical and concluded that Tapia “should not be arrested.

Captain at Sheriff’s office resigned Instead of arresting tapia and tapia is argued in filed case Against the county, Corps demanded his arrest as revenge against him for complaining about her leadership.

Vanessa Lemus-Tapia, daughter of Tapia, told the meeting that Corps incorrectly wants a loan to reduce crime in San Mateo County when the percentage for most major crimes across the country has fallen.

“It wasn’t her,” Lemus-Tapia said before turning directly to the housing. “Stop fighting this. Restore the trust, dignity and integrity of this department.”

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