"If you are still conducting active investigations and interviews in the 10th or 11th month, witnesses or subject officers may have trouble recollecting what happened. If the case is open for almost a year, it doesn't give complaining witnesses a lot of confidence that they're complaint is being taken seriously."
The California Public Employment Relations Board directed San Mateo County to address a Deputy Sheriffs' Association complaint regarding alleged labor violations by Sheriff Christina Corpus and a former chief.