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However, in an attempt to quash the subpoenas, Deputy Sheriffs’ Association attorney Murphy wrote to county counsel on May 10, 2024: “It appears possible, if not probable, that the subject of the complaint is the currently elected Sheriff, Eddie Engram” — in which case, Murphy argued, IOLERO has no jurisdiction to investigate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The IOLERO subpoenas that were inadvertently released this week seek records related to three current sheriff’s office employees: Deputy Brandon Jones, Sgt. Kelly Burris and Lt. Anthony Diehm, as well as one former non-sworn employee, Misti Woods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A public court filing described these staff as being “allegedly involved in events described by the whistleblower,” and said their personnel records allegedly document those events. 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In 2023, state lawmakers empowered POST, an accreditation agency for all law enforcement agencies in California, to decertify officers for serious misconduct. Participating agencies are required to notify POST of allegations of serious misconduct within 10 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Watchdog questions sheriff’s disciplinary actions\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Publicly available filings show that IOLERO’s investigation reaches far beyond the individuals named in the subpoenas, extending to broad inquiries into dishonesty and disciplinary results over six years ending in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The subpoenas also seek information on Brady notifications — sustained findings of dishonesty that the sheriff’s office is required to share with the district attorney — and the notices of disciplinary action to POST.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These broader requests overlap with IOLERO’s repeated criticism of the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office’s administrative reviews of shootings by its deputies — incidents of such great public concern in the county that voters \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11846850/what-measure-p-in-sonoma-county-says-about-police-accountability\">overwhelmingly passed Measure P\u003c/a> in 2020 to give the civilian oversight board powers to investigate allegations of misconduct, including the power to subpoena records and witnesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve learned at IOLERO that in shooting cases, the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office historically does not interview their own deputy sheriffs,” Alden said. “This is unlike almost every other agency in California, which does their own administrative interview to check to see if there are policy issues or violations or even strategic or tactical improvements that could be made.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Engram was not available to comment for this report, but public information officer Sgt. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/sonoma-county\">Sonoma County\u003c/a>’s civilian watchdog came under fire on Tuesday, when attorneys for local sheriff deputies demanded an investigation into alleged misconduct by the Independent Office of Law Enforcement Review and Outreach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a letter to the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors, Jonathan Murphy, an attorney for the Deputy Sheriff’s Association, accused IOLERO’s executive director, John Alden, and auditor Emma Dill of threatening and intimidating officers during an investigation into the 2022 fatal shooting of a farmworker, David Peláez-Chavez, near Healdsburg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter was sent one day after IOLERO held a public forum to discuss findings in its Sept. 2 \u003ca href=\"https://sonomacounty.gov/Main%20County%20Site/Administrative%20Support%20%26%20Fiscal%20Services/IOLERO/Documents/Audit%20Reports/IOLERO%20Final%20Report%20-tagged.pdf\">report\u003c/a>, which concluded Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Michael Dietrick may have violated department use of force policies when he shot and killed Peláez-Chavez, and that it was “unclear” whether Sergeant Thomas Berg adequately supervised the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the virtual town hall, Alden repeatedly faulted Sonoma County Sheriff Eddie Engram’s refusal to order his staff to answer questions as the reason IOLERO’s review of the shooting remains incomplete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This was the most significant impediment we had to gathering the evidence we wanted to gather in this case,” Alden said. “In our written report, we go through many of the questions we would’ve liked to have asked but couldn’t.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The investigation of the 2022 shooting was the first time IOLERO attempted to exercise expanded powers to directly interview officers involved in incidents under investigation, Alden said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dietrick left the Sonoma County Sheriff’s office before IOLERO’s investigation. But Deputy Anthony Powers, who deployed a taser, and the supervising Berg both refused to answer IOLERO’s questions. In response to subpoenas, the deputies showed up to the interview but invoked their Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11958226\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 308px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11958226\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/David-Pelaez-Chavez.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"308\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/David-Pelaez-Chavez.jpeg 308w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/David-Pelaez-Chavez-160x113.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 308px) 100vw, 308px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The family of David Peláez-Chavez held a vigil at Santa Rosa’s Old Courthouse Square on July 29, 2022. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Tash Kimmell)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That is their right as public employees, Alden said at the public forum, but also a reason why Engram should have issued what’s known as a Lybarger warning — a notice issued to public employees during administrative investigations with a promise that anything they say will not be used against them in any criminal proceeding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ We had asked the sheriff to issue that order in this case to the deputies that came to us when we were trying to interview them, and he declined,” Alden said Monday. “We haven’t received a reason back that we found credible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sheriff’s only publicly available response was in a lengthy \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1211653690994389&set=a.217926750367093\">Facebook post\u003c/a> on the department’s website, which stated, “Deputies are employees of the Sheriff’s Office, not IOLERO. The Sheriff, as their employer, can only legally compel testimony for Sheriff’s Office administrative investigations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Engram reiterated that the Sonoma County District Attorney Carla Rodriguez “concluded the deputies’ actions were reasonable and lawful. By contrast, IOLERO acknowledged it lacked key evidence and instead issued a report riddled with speculative commentary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his letter to county supervisors, Murphy alleged Dill threatened and harassed those officers by insisting they show up in person, fully knowing they had refused to talk. 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Meanwhile, critics of county law enforcement agencies said the not-guilty verdict, which the jury reached after a mere six hours of deliberation, reinforces the idea that officers can continue to act with “impunity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The prosecution, which relied heavily on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11792485/sonoma-sheriff-fires-deputy-releases-graphic-video-of-encounter-that-led-to-drivers-death\">body camera footage\u003c/a> that caught the graphic and violent encounter on tape, aimed to prove that Blount’s reckless decisions and excessive force caused Ward’s death two years ago, following the chase on rural county roads west of Rohnert Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the lawsuit, Ward’s attorneys described the 52-year-old Petaluma resident as a disabled person who had been confined to a wheelchair for many years because of a car accident. “David was frail, his mobility greatly limited, and he often relied on supplemental oxygen to breathe,” the suit stated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Days before the fatal incident, Ward reported that his green Honda Civic had been stolen in a violent carjacking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at some point in the early morning of Nov. 27, 2019, Ward got his car back (it’s unclear how) but did not report its recovery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Rosa police identified the car on the road — unaware that Ward was driving it — and contacted several law enforcement agencies to retrieve it. Sheriff’s Deputy Jason Little caught up to the car and followed it while two Sebastopol police officers approached to provide backup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when Little tried to pull the car over, Ward sped off, prompting a several-miles-long car chase in which Little twice tried to force Ward off the road — the second time successfully. The deputy and the two police officers surrounded Ward’s car with their guns drawn and shouted for him to keep his hands up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few minutes later, Blount arrived to provide additional backup and spoke for a few seconds to Little, whose body camera captured the video from the incident that was played repeatedly for the jury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After asking how many people were in the car, Blount said, “Let me get up there,” and moved past Little to the driver’s side of Ward’s car. Little can be heard protesting, “Wait, wait, wait.” But when Blount advanced, he followed behind to cover him, Little later testified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blount tapped on the driver’s side window and told Ward to unlock the door, which appeared to be broken. Ward instead rolled down the window and said, “I’m the injured party here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"charles-blount\"]“This is a man who is starting to talk,” prosecutor Robert Waner on Monday told the jury during closing arguments of the roughly two-week trial. “Of course he’s behaving badly, but the law enforcement solution is to apprehend, not to punish.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blount then grabbed Ward’s arm and tried to pull him out of the driver’s side window, as Little stepped in to help, beginning what Waner called a “flail session.” Moments later, both deputies cried out that Ward, who was still in the car, had bit them. Blount grabbed Ward’s head and smashed it into the car door frame while Little fired his Taser.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wrapping his arm around Ward’s neck, Blount held him in an improvised neck hold for about 30 seconds until Ward passed out. Other officers removed Ward from the passenger side of the car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just before the deputies seemed to realize that Ward had stopped breathing, Sheriff’s Deputy Nicholas Jax arrived at the scene and identified the suspect, informing the other officers, including Blount, that Ward was the owner of the stolen car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh, well,” Blount replied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ward was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital about an hour later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A coroner’s investigation conducted by pathologist Dr. Joseph Cohen found that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11818476/deputies-blunt-force-neck-hold-taser-caused-petaluma-mans-death\">Ward’s death was a homicide\u003c/a> caused by heart and lung failure after a confrontation with law enforcement. But the pathologist also found that Ward’s methamphetamine use and pre-existing heart condition were significant factors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blount’s defense argued that no injury that he inflicted was directly linked to Ward’s death, and that alone was enough reasonable doubt to acquit him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Defense attorney Harry Stern told the jury that the case never would have been charged, let alone brought to trial, if not for the details that Blount couldn’t have known at the time of the incident: Ward’s serious medical condition and the fact that he was the owner of the car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The only way we can criticize him is knowing the end result of the case,” Stern said in his closing statement. “If this is a carjacker and he doesn’t have these medical issues — we’re all saying, ‘Hey, great job, Charlie.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last April, the county settled a lawsuit brought by Ward’s family for $3.8 million. 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I feel for David’s family right now and what they must be going through, but I feel for our whole community, too, because this killer remains free and there’s no answers coming down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 2015 incident, in which \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11789667/in-custody-death-sonoma-county-deputy-lied-in-court-about-past-carotid-hold\">Blount used a similar neck hold on a woman\u003c/a> who was jaywalking and threw her to the ground, and then later lied about it, was not admitted at trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schwaiger said he was shocked that Blount’s history of perjury was never presented to the jury, but notes that may not have made a difference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In this case, the people of Sonoma County are saying they’re not ready to hold these people accountable,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 12:15 p.m. Friday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Editor’s note: The video embedded in this story depicts violence and contains profanity. Viewer discretion is advised.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A former Sonoma County sheriff’s deputy has been indicted in connection with a fatal confrontation last year in which he slammed the head of a disabled man into a car door frame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Santa Rosa \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/former-sonoma-county-sheriffs-deputy-charles-blount-arrested-for-death-of/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Press Democrat\u003c/a> first reported Thursday that ex-Deputy Charles Blount surrendered at the Sonoma County Jail on Monday evening in response to an arrest warrant. Blount posted $50,000 bail and was released within an hour, according to a sheriff’s spokesman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A grand jury indictment unsealed Friday morning charges Blount with involuntary manslaughter and assault by a public officer, both felonies. Each charge includes an additional allegation that Blount personally inflicted great bodily harm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some observers welcomed news that Blount would face criminal charges, which comes almost a year after 52-year-old David Ward died after a brutal struggle with deputies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s about time that something has happened to hold people accountable for the killing of David Ward,” said Jerry Threet, a police accountability lawyer and former director of an independent law enforcement oversight office in Sonoma County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"david-glen-ward\" label=\"More on The Death of David Ward\"]Ward led deputies and Sebastopol police on a 5-mile car chase on Nov. 27, 2019 after an officer spotted him driving a suspected stolen vehicle. Deputies would later realize the vehicle belonged to Ward, who had recently recovered it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ward stopped at a dead end in the community of Bloomfield and was approached by deputies in an encounter captured on body camera video. Deputies Blount and Jason Little can be heard shouting commands to Ward, who was still seated in his vehicle. He raised and lowered his hands, then lowered his window.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the driver’s side door wouldn’t open, Blount grabbed Ward and tried to pull him out through the window, but Ward’s legs were pinned under the steering wheel and he howled in pain. Blount and Little both said Ward was biting them during the struggle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blount then grabbed Ward by the hair and twice slammed his head into the car’s door frame, as Little fired a Taser. Blount put Ward in a neck hold through the driver’s side window, and Ward appears to lose consciousness. He stopped breathing after being removed from the passenger side of the car and was later pronounced dead at a local hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ward’s death was ruled a homicide caused by cardiorespiratory collapse, blunt impact injuries, neck restraint, use of a Taser and a “physical confrontation with law enforcement,” according to summary coroner’s findings released in May. The coroner also found that Ward was under the influence of methamphetamine, had a history of chronic substance abuse, other chronic health issues and mental illness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is ghastly, what happened to David, who was not entirely innocent in this episode, but he certainly didn’t deserve to die,” said Izaak Schwaiger, a former Sonoma County prosecutor and now civil attorney who is representing Ward’s mother. “It is very disturbing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=az807R-35Vg&feature=emb_title\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blount’s attorney did not respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sonoma County Sheriff Mark Essick announced last December he was moving to fire Blount and released video of the incident. However, Blount retired in February and has presumably been collecting a pension since then, according to a federal lawsuit filed on behalf of his mother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sheriff’s Office had no direct comment on the criminal charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We respect the independent criminal process,” a sheriff’s spokesman wrote in an emailed response. “We have nothing further.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A criminal investigation conducted by the Santa Rosa Police Department was completed in May, and a charging decision in the case has since rested with District Attorney Jill Ravitch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors in California can choose to directly file charges, which happens in the vast majority of cases, or to present potential criminal charges to the grand jury, which decides in secret whether there is sufficient evidence to proceed with a criminal charge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement issued Friday, Ravitch said that “criminal grand juries are not unprecedented in Sonoma County”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In fact, they are frequently convened across the state, and in light of the obstacles presented with Covid-19, and the public safety issues in this case, we felt it made sense to submit this evidence to the grand jury for their consideration,” Ravitch said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The use of criminal grand juries in cases of killings by law enforcement has come under scrutiny across the nation, including in Missouri following the 2014 killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, and more recently, \u003ca href=\"https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/523347-grand-juror-in-breonna-taylor-case-calls-kentucky-attorney-general-a\">in Kentucky\u003c/a> following the slaying of Breonna Taylor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is a certain amount of political cover that is available to an elected official by proceeding this way,” said Schwaiger, the civil attorney representing Ward’s mother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors could have pursued a far more serious charge against Blount, police accountability attorney Threet said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think there is evidence to support a charge of second-degree murder,” Threet said, under the doctrine of implied malice. The lawyer said the evidence showed that while the deputy may not have intended to kill Ward, his actions were intentional and there was a high risk that those actions could result in death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Deputy Blount clearly intended to choke out Mr. Ward and to beat his head viciously on the door frame of his own car,” Threet said. “That gives you the elements of second-degree murder.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blount is scheduled for arraignment in Sonoma County Superior Court on Nov. 12.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Bay Area voters delivered strong support to a half-dozen measures that aim to strengthen independent oversight of local law enforcement, many spurred by a national movement demanding police reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The local measures come after the California Legislature this summer \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101879558/major-police-reform-bills-fail-in-california-legislature\">failed to pass\u003c/a> several major statewide police accountability bills — including one to remove police officers who commit serious misconduct — after facing strong opposition from law enforcement groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s a rundown of each of those measures and how they fared on Tuesday:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#S1\">Oakland: Measure S1\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#D\">San Francisco: Proposition D\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#E\">San Francisco: Proposition E\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#II\">Berkeley: Measure II\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#G\">San Jose: Measure G\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#P\">Sonoma County: Measure P\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"S1\">\u003c/a>Oakland: Measure S1\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11843542\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11843542\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS43436_026_KQED_Oakland_GeorgeFloydProtest_05292020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Demonstators and OPD\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS43436_026_KQED_Oakland_GeorgeFloydProtest_05292020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS43436_026_KQED_Oakland_GeorgeFloydProtest_05292020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS43436_026_KQED_Oakland_GeorgeFloydProtest_05292020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS43436_026_KQED_Oakland_GeorgeFloydProtest_05292020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS43436_026_KQED_Oakland_GeorgeFloydProtest_05292020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators face a police line on May 29, 2020 in Oakland during protests following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>More than 80% of Oakland voters approved an effort to boost oversight of the city’s police force as of late Tuesday night. \u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/24-Measure-S1-City-of-Oakland-Police-Commussion.pdf\">Measure S1\u003c/a> — backed unanimously by the Oakland City Council — creates a new independent Office of the Inspector General and increases the authority of both the Oakland Police Commission and the Community Police Review Agency, which investigates complaints of officer misconduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure allows the commission and CPRA to hire attorneys independently of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure also requires Oakland’s police chief to respond to the commission’s requests for information and allows the City Council to suspend members of the commission for cause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The independent OIG is tasked with reviewing cases of police misconduct and submitting reports to the Police Commission and the Oakland City Council. It also oversees compliance with a 2003 settlement in a federal civil rights lawsuit — known as the Riders case — when the city and Police Department entered into an agreement to address serious allegations of police misconduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is such an important issue,” City Council President Rebecca Kaplan said late Tuesday night, “that there be a trusted decision maker that isn’t part of the department so that you can build that trust and ensure accountability.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Changes under Measure S1 touch on several sources of recent controversy in the Oakland Police Department. Former Chief Anne Kirkpatrick, fired in February, has targeted the Police Commission and the court-appointed federal monitor in a lawsuit alleging she was retaliated against for reporting malfeasance by commissioners and disagreeing with the monitor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"D\">\u003c/a>San Francisco: Proposition D\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11843548\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11843548\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS21357_20161005_100742-qut.jpg\" alt=\"seal of the SF sheriff's department\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS21357_20161005_100742-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS21357_20161005_100742-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS21357_20161005_100742-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS21357_20161005_100742-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS21357_20161005_100742-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS21357_20161005_100742-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS21357_20161005_100742-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS21357_20161005_100742-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS21357_20161005_100742-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS21357_20161005_100742-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Proposition D comes in the wake of several high-profile allegations of misconduct in the San Francisco Sheriff’s Department. \u003ccite>(Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco voters showed up with strong support for independent \u003ca href=\"https://voterguide.sfelections.org/en/sheriff-oversight\">oversight of the county Sheriff’s Department\u003c/a>, with more than 67% of ballots counted Tuesday in favor of Proposition D.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"police-reform\"]The proposition creates two new bodies to bring independent oversight to the San Francisco County Sheriff’s Department. The Office of Inspector General investigates misconduct within the department, and a seven-member oversight board will make policy recommendations regarding department operations, complaints against deputies and in-custody deaths. The sheriff, though, retains authority to determine any discipline against deputies and other staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure, placed on the ballot by a unanimous vote of the Board of Supervisors, comes after major misconduct in the Sheriff’s Department. Deputies were criminally charged in 2016 with \u003ca href=\"https://www.vice.com/en/article/qv5enm/san-francisco-sheriffs-deputies-accused-of-forcing-jailed-inmates-to-participate-in-fight-club\">arranging gladiator-style fights\u003c/a> between inmates in San Francisco County Jail. A subsequent botched internal investigation resulted in those charges being dropped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the department entered into an agreement allowing the San Francisco Department of Police Accountability to investigate a number existing allegations of misconduct. Proposition D, however, creates an oversight structure for the county that is separate from city Police Department oversight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As elected officials, California sheriffs have typically seen less civilian oversight than local police departments, which are accountable to mayors and city councils. That may be changing. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/uncategorized/2019/09/sheriff-power/\">Assembly Bill 1185, \u003c/a>which Gov. Gavin Newsom approved last month, codifies every county’s ability to establish a sheriff oversight board and inspector general’s office with subpoena powers.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"E\">\u003c/a>San Francisco: Proposition E\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11843551\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11843551\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS40522_IMG_2406-qut.jpg\" alt=\"SFPD chief William Scott\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS40522_IMG_2406-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS40522_IMG_2406-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS40522_IMG_2406-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS40522_IMG_2406-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS40522_IMG_2406-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Police Chief William Scott listens during a town hall meeting at César Chávez Elementary School in the wake of a December 2019 police shooting in the Mission District. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Voters in San Francisco were also approving \u003ca href=\"https://voterguide.sfelections.org/en/police-staffing\">Proposition E\u003c/a> with more than 71% in favor as of Wednesday. The measure amends the city charter to scrap a mandatory minimum of 1,971 full-duty sworn police officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposition requires the department to submit a report and recommendation for police staffing levels every two years to the Police Commission. The commission would then have to consider the report when approving the department’s budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past, San Francisco would have been in violation of its charter if it fell below the minimum staffing level, which the officers’ union charged that it routinely has in opposition to the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The passage of Proposition E allows city leaders — including the mayor, supervisors and the Police Commission — to hire fewer full-duty officers, if they choose to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The effort aligns with recent proposals from Mayor London Breed and Police Chief Bill Scott that aim to divert responses to some mental health-related issues and other non-violent complaints away from armed police officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"II\">\u003c/a>Berkeley: Measure II\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11843553\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1440px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11843553\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS13484_460085990-e1418082501731-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Berkeley police line\" width=\"1440\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS13484_460085990-e1418082501731-qut.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS13484_460085990-e1418082501731-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS13484_460085990-e1418082501731-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS13484_460085990-e1418082501731-qut-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Berkeley police officers form a line on Telegraph Avenue during protests in December 2014 following a New York jury’s decision not to indict a police officer in the chokehold death of Eric Garner. \u003ccite>(Stephen Lam/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Berkeley voters were in support of \u003ca href=\"https://www.cityofberkeley.info/uploadedFiles/Clerk/Elections/Police%20Charter%20Question%20and%20Text.pdf\">Measure II\u003c/a> by a 5-to-1 margin Tuesday, which gives the city the go-ahead to scrap its existing Police Commission and replace it by early 2022 with a nine-member independent oversight body and director. The new Police Accountability Board will have the authority to access internal police records and seek officer testimony, investigate complaints filed by the public and recommend discipline. The board will also advise on the hiring of future police chiefs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Introduced by a coalition of Berkeley police officials, City Council members and current oversight commissioners, Measure II will also give the public \u003ca href=\"https://www.kalw.org/post/berkeley-measure-ii-police-accountability-board#stream/0\">more time\u003c/a> to file complaints against police officers and lower the burden of proof in the process of investigating those allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley was an early adopter of civilian police oversight. Its current Police Review Commission was established in 1973, long before most other cities had even considered such entities. But some Berkeley residents and city leaders say it now lacks the authority of oversight bodies in cities like San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"G\">\u003c/a>San Jose: Measure G\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11828875\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1280px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11828875\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/IMG_8296.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"886\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/IMG_8296.jpg 1280w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/IMG_8296-800x554.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/IMG_8296-1020x706.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/IMG_8296-160x111.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police officers in riot gear block off a street in downtown San Jose on May 29, 2020, in advance of a large protest against police brutality, spurred by the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police. \u003ccite>(Adhiti Bandlamudi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Jose voters were passing \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseca.gov/your-government/appointees/city-clerk/elections/measure-g-charter-amendment\">Measure G\u003c/a> with 78% yes votes as of Wednesday. It institutes a handful of fairly wide-ranging changes in the city — some unrelated to police accountability — including changing the size of the Planning Commission and allowing the council to establish different timelines for redistricting if U.S. census results arrive late.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Concerning police oversight, Measure G will expand the review authority of the Independent Police Auditor. The IPA will now be able to review administrative investigations initiated by the Police Department against its officers and gain access to unredacted records related to police shootings and other serious use-of-force incidents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure comes as the San Jose Police Department is being sued for its officers’ use of tear gas and projectiles against mostly peaceful demonstrators during the George Floyd protests in the city in late May and early June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A scandal also erupted this summer when a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseinside.com/news/sjpd-officers-mock-muslims-blm-protesters-on-facebook/\">blogger exposed\u003c/a> that current and former San Jose police officers swapped bigoted messages in a Facebook group, prompting the department to place four officers on leave. The Santa Clara County district attorney has since \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-10-22/social-media-scandal-santa-clara-police-charges-dropped\">announced plans to dismiss charges\u003c/a> in 14 criminal cases tainted by those officers’ involvement.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"P\">\u003c/a>Sonoma County: Measure P\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11818497\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11818497\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Blount-screen-shot-1.jpg\" alt=\"A screen shot from body camera video of the Nov. 27 in-custody of death of David Ward shows former Sonoma County Sheriff's Deputy Charles Blount as he grabs Ward by the head, a few seconds before slamming Ward's face against the car's door frame.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"988\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Blount-screen-shot-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Blount-screen-shot-1-160x82.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Blount-screen-shot-1-800x412.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Blount-screen-shot-1-1020x525.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A screenshot from body-camera video of the Nov. 27 police killing of David Glen Ward shows former Sonoma County Sheriff’s Deputy Charles Blount as he grabs Ward by the head, a few seconds before slamming Ward’s face against the car’s door frame. \u003ccite>(Via Sonoma County Sheriff)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A Sonoma County \u003ca href=\"http://sonomacounty.ca.gov/CRA/Registrar-of-Voters/Elections/PDFs/Measure-P-IOLERO-November-3-2020/\">measure\u003c/a> seeking to increase power of the county’s independent oversight of its Sheriff’s Office was leading by wide margin Wednesday night. Over two-thirds of votes counted so far are in favor of the measure that drew strong opposition from the sheriff and deputies’ union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m really hopeful that now that we have this outcome, they’ll shift gears and take the hand that’s been held out to them so we can improve these relationships,” said Jerry Threet, former director of Sonoma County’s Independent Office of Law Enforcement Outreach and supporter of Measure P.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure increases powers and budget of the office, which was created in the years following the 2013 killing of 13-year-old \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/andy-lopez/\">Andy Lopez\u003c/a>. Backers of the measure say the office known as IOLERO was underfunded from the start and has relied on the voluntary cooperation of the sheriff to provide access and allow for any substantive oversight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure, which was put on the ballot by a unanimous vote of the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors, requires the sheriff to cooperate with investigations and gives IOLERO authority to obtain evidence, contact witnesses and subpoena records. The office would also be able to publish body camera footage on its website and recommend disciplinary actions for officers under investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Measure P also increases funding for the office, requiring that its budget be equal to 1% of the overall sheriff’s budget, and prohibits its directors from being removed unless approved by a four-fifths vote of the Board of Supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure comes a year after former Sheriff’s Deputy Charles Blount, who had a history of misusing neck holds, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11789667/in-custody-death-sonoma-county-deputy-lied-in-court-about-past-carotid-hold\">was caught on body camera video\u003c/a> slamming a man’s head into a car door frame following a chase after attempting to put him in a headlock through the driver’s side window.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The man, David Glen Ward, who had a disability, subsequently died from his injuries according to coroner’s findings, which also found methamphetamine in his system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sonoma County Sheriff Mark Essick moved to fire Blount, but the deputy was allowed to retire before he was officially disciplined and is now presumably collecting a pension. A criminal investigation into Ward’s death took months to complete and the Sonoma County district attorney has yet to make a charging decision in the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Measure P was strongly \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/campaign-heats-up-on-sonoma-county-ballot-measure-to-beef-up-law-enforcemen/\">opposed\u003c/a> by the sheriff and the union representing its deputies. Its funding provision is expected to be challenged in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Alex Emslie and Kate Wolffe of KQED News contributed reporting to this article.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The proposition creates two new bodies to bring independent oversight to the San Francisco County Sheriff’s Department. The Office of Inspector General investigates misconduct within the department, and a seven-member oversight board will make policy recommendations regarding department operations, complaints against deputies and in-custody deaths. The sheriff, though, retains authority to determine any discipline against deputies and other staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure, placed on the ballot by a unanimous vote of the Board of Supervisors, comes after major misconduct in the Sheriff’s Department. Deputies were criminally charged in 2016 with \u003ca href=\"https://www.vice.com/en/article/qv5enm/san-francisco-sheriffs-deputies-accused-of-forcing-jailed-inmates-to-participate-in-fight-club\">arranging gladiator-style fights\u003c/a> between inmates in San Francisco County Jail. A subsequent botched internal investigation resulted in those charges being dropped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the department entered into an agreement allowing the San Francisco Department of Police Accountability to investigate a number existing allegations of misconduct. Proposition D, however, creates an oversight structure for the county that is separate from city Police Department oversight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As elected officials, California sheriffs have typically seen less civilian oversight than local police departments, which are accountable to mayors and city councils. That may be changing. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/uncategorized/2019/09/sheriff-power/\">Assembly Bill 1185, \u003c/a>which Gov. Gavin Newsom approved last month, codifies every county’s ability to establish a sheriff oversight board and inspector general’s office with subpoena powers.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"E\">\u003c/a>San Francisco: Proposition E\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11843551\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11843551\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS40522_IMG_2406-qut.jpg\" alt=\"SFPD chief William Scott\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS40522_IMG_2406-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS40522_IMG_2406-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS40522_IMG_2406-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS40522_IMG_2406-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS40522_IMG_2406-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Police Chief William Scott listens during a town hall meeting at César Chávez Elementary School in the wake of a December 2019 police shooting in the Mission District. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Voters in San Francisco were also approving \u003ca href=\"https://voterguide.sfelections.org/en/police-staffing\">Proposition E\u003c/a> with more than 71% in favor as of Wednesday. The measure amends the city charter to scrap a mandatory minimum of 1,971 full-duty sworn police officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposition requires the department to submit a report and recommendation for police staffing levels every two years to the Police Commission. The commission would then have to consider the report when approving the department’s budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past, San Francisco would have been in violation of its charter if it fell below the minimum staffing level, which the officers’ union charged that it routinely has in opposition to the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The passage of Proposition E allows city leaders — including the mayor, supervisors and the Police Commission — to hire fewer full-duty officers, if they choose to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The effort aligns with recent proposals from Mayor London Breed and Police Chief Bill Scott that aim to divert responses to some mental health-related issues and other non-violent complaints away from armed police officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"II\">\u003c/a>Berkeley: Measure II\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11843553\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1440px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11843553\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS13484_460085990-e1418082501731-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Berkeley police line\" width=\"1440\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS13484_460085990-e1418082501731-qut.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS13484_460085990-e1418082501731-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS13484_460085990-e1418082501731-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS13484_460085990-e1418082501731-qut-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Berkeley police officers form a line on Telegraph Avenue during protests in December 2014 following a New York jury’s decision not to indict a police officer in the chokehold death of Eric Garner. \u003ccite>(Stephen Lam/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Berkeley voters were in support of \u003ca href=\"https://www.cityofberkeley.info/uploadedFiles/Clerk/Elections/Police%20Charter%20Question%20and%20Text.pdf\">Measure II\u003c/a> by a 5-to-1 margin Tuesday, which gives the city the go-ahead to scrap its existing Police Commission and replace it by early 2022 with a nine-member independent oversight body and director. The new Police Accountability Board will have the authority to access internal police records and seek officer testimony, investigate complaints filed by the public and recommend discipline. The board will also advise on the hiring of future police chiefs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Introduced by a coalition of Berkeley police officials, City Council members and current oversight commissioners, Measure II will also give the public \u003ca href=\"https://www.kalw.org/post/berkeley-measure-ii-police-accountability-board#stream/0\">more time\u003c/a> to file complaints against police officers and lower the burden of proof in the process of investigating those allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley was an early adopter of civilian police oversight. Its current Police Review Commission was established in 1973, long before most other cities had even considered such entities. But some Berkeley residents and city leaders say it now lacks the authority of oversight bodies in cities like San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"G\">\u003c/a>San Jose: Measure G\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11828875\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1280px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11828875\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/IMG_8296.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"886\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/IMG_8296.jpg 1280w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/IMG_8296-800x554.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/IMG_8296-1020x706.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/IMG_8296-160x111.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police officers in riot gear block off a street in downtown San Jose on May 29, 2020, in advance of a large protest against police brutality, spurred by the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police. \u003ccite>(Adhiti Bandlamudi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Jose voters were passing \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseca.gov/your-government/appointees/city-clerk/elections/measure-g-charter-amendment\">Measure G\u003c/a> with 78% yes votes as of Wednesday. It institutes a handful of fairly wide-ranging changes in the city — some unrelated to police accountability — including changing the size of the Planning Commission and allowing the council to establish different timelines for redistricting if U.S. census results arrive late.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Concerning police oversight, Measure G will expand the review authority of the Independent Police Auditor. The IPA will now be able to review administrative investigations initiated by the Police Department against its officers and gain access to unredacted records related to police shootings and other serious use-of-force incidents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure comes as the San Jose Police Department is being sued for its officers’ use of tear gas and projectiles against mostly peaceful demonstrators during the George Floyd protests in the city in late May and early June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A scandal also erupted this summer when a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseinside.com/news/sjpd-officers-mock-muslims-blm-protesters-on-facebook/\">blogger exposed\u003c/a> that current and former San Jose police officers swapped bigoted messages in a Facebook group, prompting the department to place four officers on leave. The Santa Clara County district attorney has since \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-10-22/social-media-scandal-santa-clara-police-charges-dropped\">announced plans to dismiss charges\u003c/a> in 14 criminal cases tainted by those officers’ involvement.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"P\">\u003c/a>Sonoma County: Measure P\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11818497\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11818497\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Blount-screen-shot-1.jpg\" alt=\"A screen shot from body camera video of the Nov. 27 in-custody of death of David Ward shows former Sonoma County Sheriff's Deputy Charles Blount as he grabs Ward by the head, a few seconds before slamming Ward's face against the car's door frame.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"988\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Blount-screen-shot-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Blount-screen-shot-1-160x82.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Blount-screen-shot-1-800x412.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Blount-screen-shot-1-1020x525.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A screenshot from body-camera video of the Nov. 27 police killing of David Glen Ward shows former Sonoma County Sheriff’s Deputy Charles Blount as he grabs Ward by the head, a few seconds before slamming Ward’s face against the car’s door frame. \u003ccite>(Via Sonoma County Sheriff)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A Sonoma County \u003ca href=\"http://sonomacounty.ca.gov/CRA/Registrar-of-Voters/Elections/PDFs/Measure-P-IOLERO-November-3-2020/\">measure\u003c/a> seeking to increase power of the county’s independent oversight of its Sheriff’s Office was leading by wide margin Wednesday night. Over two-thirds of votes counted so far are in favor of the measure that drew strong opposition from the sheriff and deputies’ union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m really hopeful that now that we have this outcome, they’ll shift gears and take the hand that’s been held out to them so we can improve these relationships,” said Jerry Threet, former director of Sonoma County’s Independent Office of Law Enforcement Outreach and supporter of Measure P.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure increases powers and budget of the office, which was created in the years following the 2013 killing of 13-year-old \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/andy-lopez/\">Andy Lopez\u003c/a>. Backers of the measure say the office known as IOLERO was underfunded from the start and has relied on the voluntary cooperation of the sheriff to provide access and allow for any substantive oversight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure, which was put on the ballot by a unanimous vote of the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors, requires the sheriff to cooperate with investigations and gives IOLERO authority to obtain evidence, contact witnesses and subpoena records. The office would also be able to publish body camera footage on its website and recommend disciplinary actions for officers under investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Measure P also increases funding for the office, requiring that its budget be equal to 1% of the overall sheriff’s budget, and prohibits its directors from being removed unless approved by a four-fifths vote of the Board of Supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure comes a year after former Sheriff’s Deputy Charles Blount, who had a history of misusing neck holds, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11789667/in-custody-death-sonoma-county-deputy-lied-in-court-about-past-carotid-hold\">was caught on body camera video\u003c/a> slamming a man’s head into a car door frame following a chase after attempting to put him in a headlock through the driver’s side window.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The man, David Glen Ward, who had a disability, subsequently died from his injuries according to coroner’s findings, which also found methamphetamine in his system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sonoma County Sheriff Mark Essick moved to fire Blount, but the deputy was allowed to retire before he was officially disciplined and is now presumably collecting a pension. A criminal investigation into Ward’s death took months to complete and the Sonoma County district attorney has yet to make a charging decision in the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Measure P was strongly \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/campaign-heats-up-on-sonoma-county-ballot-measure-to-beef-up-law-enforcemen/\">opposed\u003c/a> by the sheriff and the union representing its deputies. Its funding provision is expected to be challenged in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Alex Emslie and Kate Wolffe of KQED News contributed reporting to this article.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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