OC Approves $151 Million in Sheriff’s Deputy Raises
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County supervisors approved the raises without public discussion Tuesday.
OC Poised to Approve $151 Million in Deputy Sheriff Raises
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County officials are supporting the deal as a sound decision that creates certainty about the next four years of deputy pay, while a fiscal conservative who formerly led the California Republican Party raises alarm bells about its size.
Santana: OC Deputy Union Pays Out $50K in Failed Bid to Seal Misconduct Records
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The Association of Orange County Deputy Sheriffs paid out nearly $50,000 to Voice of OC, the L.A. Times and Southern California Public Radio this past month after deputies lost their bid in court earlier this year to seal deputy misconduct records.
OC Grand Jury Wants Jailhouse Informant Hearing to Stop, Saying There’s No Widespread Violations
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Orange County’s civil grand jury said ongoing court hearing about possible misuse of jailhouse informants have turned into a “witch-hunt,” and should stop after the grand jury determined there is no “systemic, widespread informant program.”
Sheriff Management Failures Aided Jail Escape, Grand Jury Finds
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In a scathing assessment, grand jurors said key factors in the January 2016 escape included management not adequately training and supervising deputies at the jail, which allowed the guards to repeatedly violate security policies and procedures.
Supervisors Debate Opening Labor Talks
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Is it time to make the county’s labor negotiations public? A couple supervisors say yes while labor leaders say if their negotiations are opened up so should the county’s negotiations with corporations.
The Story Behind OC’s Hard-Line Negotiations With Deputy Sheriffs
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The Orange County Board of Supervisors has demanded that deputies pay the full employee share of their pensions and won’t get raises. They call it payback for the failure of public employee unions to win back $73 million in disputed property taxes.
Banked Vacation and Sick Leave Lead to Big Payouts
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Over the past five years, many high-level employees in Orange County government have reaped six-figure sick and vacation leave payouts. “This is not something we intended to become a practice,” says a state senator.
Moorlach Ready for the Super Bowl of Labor Negotiations
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The vocal union opponent is talking “collaboration” as he
prepares to become the new chairman of the Board of
Supervisors.
County’s Deputy Sheriffs Union Addresses Failure to Communicate
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Acknowledging that it is facing a tough year of contract
negotiations, the union turned to Kimberly Edds, a former OC
Register reporter.