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Sunday, March 29, 2026

A look inside San Jose politics and culture

San Jose Inside (https://www.sanjoseinside.com)

DA Targets Sheriff’s Inner Circle in Apparent Corruption Probe

Santa Clara County’s six-term sheriff and her closest allies are the subject of an ongoing criminal inquiry led by the office of DA Jeff Rosen.

The veteran law enforcement officials was accused of wrongdoing, stripped of her badge and escorted off the job Friday.

A proposal granting prosecutors on-demand access to inmate calls became a test of the county’s fidelity to its own oversight standards.

A quiet push to give local prosecutors on-demand access to inmate phone calls has ignited a controversy over checks and balances.

County officials are poised to roll back a landmark local policy amid public outcry over the murder of Bambi Larson.

A new law granting public access to police misconduct records is already changing lives, despite attempts to stifle disclosure.

Sharwian Bobian, an accused rapist who went missing for more than a month, was taken into custody Friday after a days-long manhunt.

In which we look back on all the strange, infuriating and preposterous things that went down in 2018 and say, “Sayonara!”

This marks the second consent decree imposed on the county jail system—the fifth largest in California—since last month.

A record-breaking 887,000 Santa Clara County residents have registered to vote in this year’s midterm election.

After three years of negotiations, the county has reached a settlement in a class action lawsuit over unconstitutional jail conditions.

Newly unearthed records reveal how the sheriff candidate helped Morrissey keep his job, get good assignments and sue Santa Clara County.

Santa Clara County has agreed to settle a lawsuit filed by former inmate Rikki Martinez, who says he was brutally beaten by jail guards.

Don Morrissey, a twice-demoted deputy who recently resigned as union president, is set to give up his badge this weekend.

The texting scandal cost sheriff challenger John Hirokawa an endorsement from the Santa Clara County Democratic Club.

The ex-undersheriff says he neglected to refile a candidate statement out of confusion and because the county misinformed him.