Voice of OC (https://voiceofoc.org/tag/evidence-booking-scandal/)
Sheriff’s supervisors knowingly allowed deputies to book evidence late in violation of policy according to Sheriff’s officials testimony, the latest twist in the evidence-booking scandal.
Several family members of victims of Orange County’s deadliest mass murder are demanding that District Attorney Todd Spitzer resign.
The new investigations are in addition to 17 criminal investigations that previously were referred to the District Attorney’s Office.
Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer said Monday there was no evidence of a breach.
Revelations of OC Sheriff’s evidence handling problems have now reached California’s biggest serial killer case in years.
The deputies were found to have made multiple false statements in police reports about whether evidence was booked. They will not serve jail time or pay a fine, prosecutors announced Monday.
Barnes declined to discuss specific cases, citing laws protecting police officers’ privacy. But he laid the evidence booking problem squarely on individual staff members and “gaps” in evidence booking protocol.
Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer said Wednesday he was informed four months into his administration about a decision days after he was sworn in to not file charges against a sheriff’s deputy found to have made 74 false reports about evidence booking.
The records would show what officials knew – and when – about a sheriff’s deputy found to have falsely stated in 74 different reports that he had booked evidence.
A judge will decide whether to unseal records about a deputy who was found to have made false statements about evidence in 74 different reports.