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PRESS RELEASE and VIDEO. From San Mateo County Executive Office on May 6th, 2025 and video from San Mateo County Board of Supervisor’s meeting on Tuesday, May 6th, 2025 at 9:00am, as a hybrid meeting.
Agenda.
Item #11 Staff Report and 5 attachments.
PRESS RELEASE, May 6th, 2025 — The Board of Supervisors today approved steps by which it could consider removing an elected sheriff from office for cause.
The County’s outside counsel Alfonso Estrada, who answered Board questions about the process, emphasized that the procedures allow for “several independent checks” developed with “an eye toward fundamental fairness to the County and the sheriff.”
Today’s vote sets the process for implementing voter-approved Measure A which amended the County Charter through Dec. 31, 2028 to allow for the removal of a sheriff by the Board if it finds on a four-fifths vote that there is cause to do so. Cause include violating the 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.
Next, the Board at a public meeting may consider sending the sheriff a Notice of Intent to Remove by a four-fifths vote. A notice must include the alleged reasons for removing the sheriff and a date to appear at a pre-removal conference. The Board has expressed its desire to ensure a fair and transparent process. Once the notice is sent, the next series of steps are tied to specific timeframes and the County’s outside counsel has estimated the total process, without any delays, could take about four months.
Specifically, following the approval of a Notice of Intent:
- The sheriff appears at a pre-removal conference presided over by the San Mateo County chief probation officer or an elected County official if the chief probation officer cannot be available.
- At that conference, the sheriff will have an opportunity to respond to the stated reasons for removal and the chief probation officer will then recommend to the Board whether to uphold the intent to remove.
- If the chief probation officer recommends removal, the Board must take a four-fifths vote to continue the process.
- The sheriff would thereafter be entitled to an appeal and to receive a full hearing with sworn testimony in front of a neutral hearing officer who can issue subpoenas, consider evidence and hear live testimony. The hearing would be open to the public unless the sheriff objects in writing. If both sides agree, the hearing will be recorded and released publicly.
- At the end of the appeal hearing, the hearing officer has 45 calendar days to issue a decision which the Board will consider at a public meeting.
- If the Board ultimately decides to move forward with removal, the vote requires a four-fifths majority.
The procedures adopted today largely track those the Board discussed at its April 8 meeting but include some clarifications tied to the evidence at the hearings and designating the chief probation officer to preside over the pre-removal conference.
Read Judge Cordell’s 400 page independent investigator’s report.
More on the Sheriff Corpus Lawsuit and the Measure A Election on Coastside Buzz
Semi-Official Results are 84%-Yes to 16%-No with 24% Turnout for Sheriff Corpus 2025 Measure A Special Election and Next Steps; March 13, 2025
San Mateo County Judge Denies Sheriff Corpus Lawsuit and Allows Measure A Special Election to Continue; Future Board of Supervisors’ Action May be Heard Separately; February 28, 2025
Sheriff Corpus Files Petitioner’s Brief Insisting the March 4th 2025 Measure A Vote During an Off-cycle Election will Violate her Due Process; February 13, 2025
San Mateo County Supervisors Approve $1.5M for Printing, Mailing and Communications for the March 2025 Special Election to Remove Sheriff Corpus; January 23, 2025
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
San Mateo County Independent Civilian Advisory Commission on the Sheriff’s Office Holds Special Meeting to Review Judge Cordell’s Report on Sheriff Christina Corpus; November 28, 2024
San Mateo County Supervisors Demand Sheriff’s Immediate Resignation, Terminate Executive Director of Administration Position; November 14, 2024
San Mateo County Supervisors to Consider Seeking Sheriff’s Immediate Resignation over Findings from Independent Investigation; November 13, 2024
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More on Sheriff Corpus in Coastside Buzz
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