Amid jail deaths and lawsuits, groups urge Riverside County supervisors to rein in sheriff

Along with IE community organizations and affected family members, we gathered at the Riverside Board of Supervisors meeting on October 31st to demand the Board hold the Riverside Sheriff’s Department accountable for killings, violence, extortion, and other harms committed against our community.

Our demands:

• The County must stop endlessly increasing funding for a killer sheriff’s department & instead fund community-oriented alternatives to incarceration. 

• The County must establish an oversight body with subpoena power or establish an office of inspector general that is completely independent from the Sheriff’s Department and the District Attorney’s office. 

• The County must take steps to separate the offices of Sheriff and Coroner to ensure that the community has access to accurate and unbiased information regarding in-custody deaths