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Sheriff Kelly Martinez held an open house of sorts on Wednesday, inviting reporters to Sheriff’s Department headquarters to learn about reforms she has implemented across the jail system to better ...

Sheriff Kelly Martinez faced a tough crowd Wednesday night. It was the first time she had attended a meeting of the county’s law enforcement review board since taking office in January 2023. More than ...

Weeks after Sheriff Bill Gore quit in mid-term amid a crisis of fatalities in the county jails he oversaw, then-Acting Sheriff Kelly Martinez promised that internal reviews of in-custody deaths would ...

San Diego County last month agreed to pay $16 million to the family of Hayden Schuck after his 2022 death in sheriff’s custody, the single largest payout yet in a succession of lawsuits filed over ...

SAN DIEGO — San Diego County's top law enforcement official faced some tough criticism from the families of inmates who've died while in custody. Speaking at the Citizens Law Enforcement Review Board, ...

In January, when longtime San Diego County Sheriff’s Department veteran Kelly Martinez assumed the top job, The San Diego Union-Tribune Editorial Board expressed hope that she would be a welcome break ...

The editorial board operates independently from the U-T newsroom but holds itself to similar ethical standards. We base our editorials and endorsements on reporting, interviews and rigorous debate, ...

San Diego County supervisors approved moving forward with renovations to the downtown Central Jail on Tuesday, agreeing to spend $26.5 million to upgrade plumbing, electrical and mechanical systems ...

SAN DIEGO — As part of an ongoing effort to reduce the number of deaths in custody, the San Diego Sheriff’s Office will soon begin testing biometric monitoring devices designed to alert staff when ...