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PRESS RELEASE, STAFF REPORT and VIDEO. From the San Mateo County Executive’s Office on April 8th, 2025.
Redwood City — The Board of Supervisors today accepted the certified results of the special election which will give it the temporary authority to remove an elected sheriff for cause and considered proposed procedures that might apply to any removal proceeding.
Measure A, which passed with 84 percent of the vote in the March 4, 2025, election, amends the County Charter through Dec. 31, 2028 to allow for the rem oval of the Sheriff for cause. However, several steps must occur before the Board can consider removing her for cause, which includes a violation of law related to a Sheriff’s duties, flagrant or repeated neglect of duties, misappropriation of public funds, willful falsification of documents or obstructing an investigation.
The Charter change does not take effect until April 18, 2025, 10 days after the Board’s acceptance of the special election vote count at today’s meeting. If the procedures presented today were to be adopted at a subsequent meeting, the following process would apply:
- The Board can start a removal process by a four-fifths vote and issuing the sheriff a written Notice of Intent to Remove that includes the grounds and a notice to appear at pre-removal conference within five calendar days.
- At that conference, the sheriff can respond to the stated grounds.
- The individual presiding over that conference with the sheriff will make a recommendation to the Board whether to uphold the removal; a four-fifths vote of the Board is required to remove the sheriff.
- The sheriff would be able appeal and receive a full evidentiary hearing; any such will be open to the public unless the sheriff objects in writing.
- If an appeal goes forward, at least three neutral hearing officers will be proposed and one chosen.
- The sheriff must appear at the appeal hearing where each side will have up to five days each to call witnesses. The hearing officer may also issue subpoenas, and all witnesses will testify under oath.
- At the end of the hearing, the hearing officer has 30 calendar days to issue an opinion, after the receipt of which the Board which will make a final decision, with a four-fifths vote needed to remove the sheriff.
The counsel retained by the County to assist in developing the procedures estimates that the process will take three-and-a-half months to complete once initiated.
During today’s meeting, the Board directed staff to consider whether the procedures should be revised to provide that the County’s probation officer or an elected officer to preside over the pre-removal conference.
The final removal procedures, incorporating direction from today’s meeting, will be presented to the Board for consideration and adoption at an upcoming Board meeting.
From San Mateo County Supervisors meeting on Tuesday, April 8th, 2025 at 9:00am: Full Agenda.
Staff Report Regular Agenda Item #7: Consider and provide direction on draft procedures for conducting a removal proceeding pursuant to Section 412.5 of the San Mateo County Charter. Informational only (no vote); Note Supervisor Speier absent.
Staff Report Consent Agenda Item #12: Adopt a resolution: A) Accepting the certificate of the Chief Elections Officer as the statement of the results of the vote as determined by the official canvass of the March 4, 2025 Special Election; and B) Declaring the results of a Countywide ballot measure.
Read Judge Cordell’s 400 page independent investigator’s report.
More on the Sheriff Corpus Lawsuit and the Measure A Election on Coastside Buzz
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Sheriff Corpus Legal Team Seeks Emergency Relief from “Improperly Calendared” March 2025 Election Rather than a Statewide General Election; January 14, 2025
Statement from the County of San Mateo Regarding Sheriff Corpus’s $10 Million Government Claim & Release of Full Report Transcript which Cost $200k; January 9, 2025
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