Sacramento County Sheriff's Department

Infobox Law enforcement agency
agencyname = Sacramento County Sheriff's Department
abbreviation = SSD
patch = Sacramento County Sheriff.jpg|250px
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formedyear = 1850
country = United States
countryabbr = USA
divtype = State
divname = California
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subdivtype = County
subdivname = Sacramento
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legaljuris = Sacramento County, California
headquarters = Sacramento, California
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electeetype = Sheriff
minister1name = John McGinness
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stations = 6
lockuptype = Jail
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website = [http://www.sacsheriff.com/ Official website]

The Sacramento County Sheriff's Department (SSD) is a local law enforcement agency that serves Sacramento County, California. It provides general-service law enforcement to unincorporated areas of Sacramento County, as well as incorporated cities within the county who have contracted with the agency for law-enforcement services. Currently only Rancho Cordova has such a contract with the department since the Citrus Heights and Elk Grove Police Departments assumed all police authority and responsibility for Citrus Heights and Elk Grove in 2006 respectively. It also holds primary jurisdiction over facilities operated by Sacramento County, such as local parks, marinas and government buildings; provides marshal service for the Superior Court of California, County of Sacramento; operates the Sacramento County Jail and the Rio Cosumnes Correctional Center in Elk Grove, CA; and provides services such as laboratories and academy training to smaller law enforcement agencies within the county. The county sheriff is currently John McGinness.

Organization

* Office of the Sheriff - John McGinness
** Media & Public Affairs

* Undersheriff -Tom McMahon
** Legislative Advocate
** Fair Employment
** [http://www.sacsheriff.com/organization/assistant_sheriff/pre-employment.cfm Pre-Employment]
** [http://www.sacsheriff.com/organization/assistant_sheriff/recruiting.cfm Recruiting]
** [http://www.sacsheriff.com/organization/undersheriff/siib.cfm Special Investigations Bureau]
*** Alcohol Abatement Detail
*** Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms (Project Exile)
*** Anti-Terrorism Detail
*** Bingo Detail
*** Business Licensing Detail
*** F.B.I. Joint Terrorism Task Force
*** Organized Crime Detail
*** Vice Detail

* Management & Human Resources Services
** [http://www.sacsheriff.com/organization/management_&_human_resource_services/administrative_division/index.cfm Administrative Division]
*** [http://www.sacsheriff.com/organization/management_&_human_resource_services/administrative_division/fiscal.cfm Fiscal]
*** [http://www.sacsheriff.com/organization/management_&_human_resource_services/administrative_division/personnel.cfm Personnel]
*** Payroll
*** [http://www.sacsheriff.com/organization/management_&_human_resource_services/administrative_division/purchasing.cfm Purchasing]
*** [http://www.sacsheriff.com/organization/management_&_human_resource_services/administrative_division/bingo.cfm Bingo Compliance]
** [http://www.sacsheriff.com/organization/management_&_human_resource_services/division_of_training_&_Employee_Development/index.cfm Division of Training & Employee Development]
*** [http://www.sacsheriff.com/organization/management_&_human_resource_services/division_of_training_&_Employee_Development/evoc.cfm Emergency Vehicle Operations Course]
*** [http://www.sacsheriff.com/organization/management_&_human_resource_services/division_of_training_&_Employee_Development/academy.cfm Academy]
*** [http://www.sacsheriff.com/organization/management_&_human_resource_services/division_of_training_&_Employee_Development/in-service.cfm In-Service Training]
*** [http://www.sacsheriff.com/organization/management_&_human_resource_services/division_of_training_&_Employee_Development/range.cfm Range]
** [http://www.sacsheriff.com/organization/management_&_human_resource_services/information_services/index.cfm Information Services Division]
** Staff Services
*** Employee Relations
*** Internal Affairs
*** Legal Affairs
** [http://www.sacsheriff.com/organization/management_&_human_resource_services/technical_services/index.cfm Technical Services Division]
*** [http://www.sacsheriff.com/organization/management_&_human_resource_services/technical_services/records.cfm Records]
*** [http://www.sacsheriff.com/organization/management_&_human_resource_services/technical_services/property.cfm Property Warehouse]
*** [http://www.sacsheriff.com/organization/management_&_human_resource_services/technical_services/alarm.cfm Alarm Bureau]
*** [http://www.sacsheriff.com/organization/management_&_human_resource_services/technical_services/id.cfm Identification Bureau]
**** [http://www.sacsheriff.com/organization/management_&_human_resource_services/technical_services/id_unit.cfm Identification Unit]
**** [http://www.sacsheriff.com/organization/management_&_human_resource_services/technical_services/id_csi.cfm Crime Scene Investigation Unit]
**** [http://www.sacsheriff.com/organization/management_&_human_resource_services/technical_services/id_livescan.cfm Live Scan Printing Unit]

* Investigative & Regional Services
** [http://www.sacsheriff.com/organization/investigative_&_regional_services/centralized_investigations/index.cfm Centralized Investigations]
*** [http://www.sacsheriff.com/organization/investigative_&_regional_services/centralized_investigations/sex_offender_reg.cfm 290 Sex Registration Detail]
*** [http://www.sacsheriff.com/organization/investigative_&_regional_services/centralized_investigations/child_abuse.cfm Child Abuse Detail]
*** [http://www.sacsheriff.com/organization/investigative_&_regional_services/centralized_investigations/child_support.cfm Child Support Revenue Recovery Detail]
*** [http://www.sacsheriff.com/organization/investigative_&_regional_services/centralized_investigations/cint.cfm Critical Incident Negotiation Team]
*** [http://www.sacsheriff.com/organization/investigative_&_regional_services/centralized_investigations/domestic_violence.cfm Domestic Violence Response Team]
*** [http://www.sacsheriff.com/organization/investigative_&_regional_services/centralized_investigations/elder_abuse.cfm Elder Abuse Detail]
*** [http://www.sacsheriff.com/organization/investigative_&_regional_services/centralized_investigations/fugitive.cfm Fugitive Detail]
*** [http://www.sacsheriff.com/organization/investigative_&_regional_services/centralized_investigations/gangs.cfm Gang Investigation]
*** [http://www.sacsheriff.com/organization/investigative_&_regional_services/centralized_investigations/bias_crimes.cfm Bias Crimes Detail]
*** [http://www.sacsheriff.com/organization/investigative_&_regional_services/centralized_investigations/homicide.cfm Homicide Detail]
*** [http://www.sacsheriff.com/organization/investigative_&_regional_services/centralized_investigations/robbery.cfm Robbery Detail]
*** [http://www.sacsheriff.com/organization/investigative_&_regional_services/centralized_investigations/sex_assault.cfm Sex Assault Detail]
*** [http://www.sacsheriff.com/organization/investigative_&_regional_services/centralized_investigations/sed.cfm Special Enforcement Detail]
** [http://www.sacsheriff.com/organization/investigative_&_regional_services/civil.cfm Civil Division]
** Hi-Tech/Financial Crimes
*** Financial Crimes
*** Identity Theft
*** [http://www.sacsheriff.com/organization/investigative_&_regional_services/hi_tech.cfm Hi-Tech Crimes Task Force]
*** [http://www.sacsheriff.com/organization/investigative_&_regional_services/real_estate.cfm Real Estate Fraud Detail]
** [http://www.sacsheriff.com/organization/investigative_&_regional_services/narcontics/index.cfm Narcotics Division]
*** [http://www.sacsheriff.com/organization/investigative_&_regional_services/narcontics/index.cfm Cal-MMET/HIDTA/CRIP]
*** Major Narcotics
** [http://www.sacsheriff.com/organization/investigative_&_regional_services/off_duty_program/index.cfm Off-Duty Program]
** Security Services
*** [http://www.sacsheriff.com/organization/investigative_&_regional_services/security_services/parking_enforcement/index.cfm Parking Enforcement Detail]
*** [http://www.sacsheriff.com/organization/investigative_&_regional_services/security_services/red_light_program/index.cfm Red Light Photo Enforcement Program]
*** Towing Enforcement
** [http://www.sacsheriff.com/organization/investigative_&_regional_services/special_operations/index.cfm Special Operations Division]
*** [http://www.sacsheriff.com/organization/investigative_&_regional_services/special_operations/airops.cfm Air Support Bureau]
*** [http://www.sacsheriff.com/organization/investigative_&_regional_services/special_operations/canine.cfm Canine Enforcement Detail]
*** [http://www.sacsheriff.com/organization/investigative_&_regional_services/special_operations/emergency.cfm Emergency Operations Unit]
*** [http://www.sacsheriff.com/organization/investigative_&_regional_services/special_operations/environmental.cfm Environmental Crime Unit]
*** [http://www.sacsheriff.com/organization/investigative_&_regional_services/special_operations/eod.cfm Explosive Ordnance Detail]
*** [http://www.sacsheriff.com/organization/investigative_&_regional_services/special_operations/motor.cfm Motor Detail]
*** [http://www.sacsheriff.com/organization/investigative_&_regional_services/special_operations/mounted.cfm Mounted]
*** [http://www.sacsheriff.com/organization/investigative_&_regional_services/special_operations/rt.cfm Regional Transit Police Services]
*** [http://www.sacsheriff.com/organization/investigative_&_regional_services/special_operations/volunteer_services/index.cfm Volunteer Services Bureau]
**** [http://www.sacsheriff.com/organization/investigative_&_regional_services/special_operations/volunteer_services/emergency_response_teams.cfm Community Emergency Response Teams]
**** [http://www.sacsheriff.com/organization/investigative_&_regional_services/special_operations/volunteer_services/community_reserve_corps.cfm Sacramento Community Reserve Corps]
**** [http://www.sacsheriff.com/organization/investigative_&_regional_services/special_operations/volunteer_services/citizen_corps_council.cfm Sacramento County Citizen Corps Council]
**** [http://www.sacsheriff.com/organization/investigative_&_regional_services/special_operations/volunteer_services/sharp.cfm Sacramento County Sheriff's Amateur Radio Program] (SHARP)
**** [http://www.sacsheriff.com/organization/investigative_&_regional_services/special_operations/volunteer_services/medical_reserve_corps.cfm Sacramento County Sheriff's Medical Reserve Corps]
**** [http://www.sacsheriff.com/organization/investigative_&_regional_services/special_operations/volunteer_services/reserve_officer_program.cfm Sacramento County Sheriff's Reserve Officer Program]
**** [http://www.sacsheriff.com/organization/investigative_&_regional_services/special_operations/volunteer_services/youth_program.cfm Sacramento County Sheriff's Youth Program]
**** [http://www.sacsheriff.com/organization/investigative_&_regional_services/special_operations/volunteer_services/search_and_rescue.cfm Volunteer Search and Rescue]
**** [http://www.sacsheriff.com/organization/investigative_&_regional_services/special_operations/volunteer_services/vips.cfm Volunteers in Partnership with the Sheriff] (V.I.P.S.)

* Court & Correctional Services
** Community Advisory Board
** Correctional Health Division
** [http://www.sacsheriff.com/organization/court_&_correctional_services/court_security/index.cfm Court Security Division]
*** Security Services
*** Carol Miller Justice Center
*** WM Ridgeway Family Court
*** Gordon D. Schaber (Main) Courthouse
** [http://www.sacsheriff.com/organization/court_&_correctional_services/main_jail/index.cfm Main Jail]
** [http://www.sacsheriff.com/organization/court_&_correctional_services/RCCC/index.cfm Rio Cosumnes Correctional Center]
*** [http://www.sacsheriff.com/organization/court_&_correctional_services/RCCC/jail_industrises.cfm Jail Industries]
*** Weekender
** [http://www.sacsheriff.com/organization/court_&_correctional_services/work_release/index.cfm Work Release]
*** Toy Project
*** [http://www.sacsheriff.com/organization/court_&_correctional_services/work_release/work_project.cfm Work Project]
*** [http://www.sacsheriff.com/organization/court_&_correctional_services/work_release/home_detention.cfm Home Detention]
*** [http://www.sacsheriff.com/organization/court_&_correctional_services/work_release/power_program.cfm Power Program]

* Field Services
** [http://www.sacsheriff.com/organization/field_services/airport_division/index.cfm Airport Division]
** [http://www.sacsheriff.com/organization/field_services/communications.cfm Communications Division]
** [http://www.sacsheriff.com/organization/field_services/florin_station/index.cfm Florin Station]
*** [http://www.sacsheriff.com/organization/field_services/florin_station/service_center.cfm Florin Service Center]
*** [http://www.sacsheriff.com/organization/field_services/florin_station/detectives.cfm Detectives]
*** [http://www.sacsheriff.com/organization/field_services/florin_station/south_bureau/index.cfm South Bureau]
**** Marine Enforcement
**** Brannan Island Service Center
**** Walnut Grove Service Center
**** [http://www.sacsheriff.com/organization/field_services/florin_station/south_bureau/wilton.cfm Wilton Safety Center]
** [http://www.sacsheriff.com/organization/field_services/garfield_station/index.cfm Garfield Station]
*** [http://www.sacsheriff.com/organization/field_services/garfield_station/service_centers.cfm Carmichael Service Center]
*** [http://www.sacsheriff.com/organization/field_services/garfield_station/service_centers.cfm Fair Oaks/Orangevale Service Center]
*** [http://www.sacsheriff.com/organization/field_services/garfield_station/detectives.cfm Detectives]
** Honor Guard
** [http://www.sacsheriff.com/organization/field_services/marconi_station/index.cfm Marconi Station]
*** Marconi Service Center
*** [http://www.sacsheriff.com/organization/field_services/marconi_station/index.cfm#detectives Detectives]
** [http://www.sacsheriff.com/organization/field_services/McClellan_station/index.cfm McClellan Station]
*** [http://www.sacsheriff.com/organization/field_services/McClellan_station/service_center.cfm Northwest Service Center]
*** [http://www.sacsheriff.com/organization/field_services/McClellan_station/detectives.cfm Detectives]
** [http://www.ranchocordovapd.com/ Rancho Cordova Police Department]
** [http://www.sacsheriff.com/organization/field_services/rockingham_station/index.cfm Rockingham Station]
*** Rockingham Service Center
*** Rancho Murieta Service Center
*** Detectives

Controversy

Alleged misconduct

The department has been the target of multiple accusations of brutality, abuse, and mismanagement by deputies at the Sacramento County Jail while under the supervision of then Undersheriff John McGinness. The Sacramento Bee has documented many such cases in its [http://dwb.sacbee.com/content/news/projects/watchdog/jail/ Watchdog Reports] .

Judson King

In 1998, while at the jail, a deputy ordered Judson King to move faster, to which he replied, "I am." In King's claim, his elbow was immediately fractured, and later received a settlement of $35,000.cite news |title=Excess-force sheriff's cases cost $3.9 million |url=http://dwb.sacbee.com/content/news/projects/watchdog/jail/story/13807194p-14648335c.html |work=Sacramento Bee |page=A1 |date=November 3, 2005 ]

Troy Zwierzynski

In 1999, Troy Zwierzynski had surrendered himself at the jail to complete a work project as part of a misdemeanor sentence. While in a holding cell, he said, he heard a man screaming and turned to look. A deputy ordered Zwierzynski to look away, and "slammed him against the wall violently twisting back his wrists and arms," the complaint states. "The deputies asked (him) if he was going to look the next time. ... Plaintiff, in tears, responded that he would not look again." His wrist was broken, and later received a settlement of $35,000.

Michael Hay

On December 22, 2000, Sacramento State student Michael Hay was drunk in his apartment when Sheriffs Deputies Rebecca Eubanks and Robert Book contronted him about loud music. After being belligerent towards the officer, Book "handcuffed him and walked him downstairs" and arrested him for being drunk in public; the charges were later dropped and Deputy Book was reprimanded because his "arrest of Michael H. was without legal authority." While being booked at the Sacramento County Jail, he was repeatadly told comments about what his stay was going to be like. Deputy Eubanks says "We're really, really bored and we need some body to play with, so you're it, OK?" Later the staff nurse warned him that "they like to hurt people around here" and an unidentified officer made a shadow-boxing motion. When Hay was eventually searched, an officer started to twist his arm, so long and with such force, he eventually broke it. After sustaining the night with a broken arm and no medical attention, he was released and sought medical care three days later. In 2002, Hay settled a lawsuit against the department for $147,500.cite news |title=Watchdog report: Suit alleges jail brutality |url=http://dwb.sacbee.com/content/news/projects/watchdog/jail/story/13798655p-14632251c.html |work=Sacramento Bee |page=A1 |date=October 30, 2005 ]

Darryl O'Brien

In 2002, 52-year-old Darryl O'Brien, a woman with no previous criminal record, was "dropped" fracturing her knee. After removing her handcuffs, her arm was yanked so hard behind her back it fractured her shoulder. Her claim against the county was later settled for $7,500.

Jafar Afshar

On June 7, 2003, ex-Marine Jafar Afshar was arrested for public intoxication, charges that were dropped the next morning. While being booked, his handcuffs were taken off and was immediately thrown to the ground, spliting his head open and leaving a pool of blood on the floor. A year later, Afshar filed a federal lawsuit (Afshar v. County of Sacramento) alleging violations of usc|42|1983. The only officer named in the lawsuit, Officer Spaid, said in his incident report that Afshar "swung toward him". Afshar received two sets of videotape, the first showing no incident, and the second with missing video, which Afshar's attorney called "a cover-up".cite news |title=Main Jail's videos are crucial in brutality suits |url=http://dwb.sacbee.com/content/news/projects/watchdog/jail/story/14234392p-15055941c.html |work=Sacramento Bee |page=A1 |date=March 24, 2006 ]

Mihaita Constantin

Mihaita Constantin, a 33 year old Romanian immigrant was arrested on July 14, 2003 on suspicion of drunk driving. While in one of the holding cells, he refused to sit. Five deputies rushed in and proceeded to handcuff Constantin and scuffle with him for well over 5 minutes, putting a towel over his head. Afterwards, Constantin was left semi-conscious, towel still over his head, with a broken hand, fractured nose and severely bruised; no officers were injured. On June 29, 2004, Constantin filed a federal lawsuit against the department alleging violations of his civil rights; he was later found dead in a crashed car on a mountain slope near Blue Canyon. His wife has returned to Europe but is continuing the lawsuit.

Branden Johnson

On October 29, 2005, Branden Johnson was arrested on suspicion on drunk driving and taken to Sacramento County Jail. During his incarceration, he told the Sacramento Bee that "deputies beat him when he was shackled hand and foot, repeatedly slamming him to the ground." The department refuted the allegations, even providing an 11-minute video clip of Johnson's 14 hour incarceration showing Johnson allegedly banging his head against the wall. Johnson stated that he'd like to see the whole video but saying he "believe [s] that the whole tape won't ever be available." Undersheriff John McGinness, in charge of operations at the jail, declined to immediately provide the rest of the footage. [cite news |title=Panel seeks jail task force |url=http://dwb.sacbee.com/content/news/projects/watchdog/jail/story/13802789p-14644085c.html |work=Sacramento Bee |page=A1 |date=November 2, 2005 ]

Don Anthony Antoine

On June 19, 2004, Don Antoine was arrested by Sacramento Police officers on charges of assaulting a firefighter, driving under the influence of alcohol, and possession of nunchucks after he ran his car off the Arden-Garden Connector in the Gardenland neighborhood of Sacramento and starting a fight with firefighters who responded to the accident. [cite news | first=Denny | last=Walsh | title=Sacramento jury hears two versions of jailed man's injuries | url=http://www.sacbee.com/101/story/832713.html | work=Sacramento Bee | date=2008-04-03 | accessdate=2008-04-18 ] He accused deputies Chris Baker, Joseph Reeve, Brian Wade and Christopher Britton of using excessive force when he says they kicked, punched, beat and choked him when they shackled him to a Sacramento County Jail cell's floor grate, an event which the deputies deny even took place. On April 16, 2008, a federal grand jury awarded Antoine $170,000 after they found the deputies acted maliciously when they beat him, and one of the jurors was quoted saying the deputies "chained him to a grate like a dog." [cite news | first=Denny | last=Walsh | title=Man awarded $170,000 for being restrained in Sacramento jail | url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/04/16/state/n120356D95.DTL&type=politics | work=Associated Press | publisher=San Francisco Chronicle | date=2008-04-03 | accessdate=2008-04-18 ]

ee also

* List of law enforcement agencies in California
* 1991 Sacramento hostage crisis

References

External links

* [http://www.sacsheriff.com/ Official website]