After a tumultuous week for the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Workplace, state legislators and congressional leaders from the world have added their voices to the rising requires embattled Sheriff Christina Corpus to resign, issuing a joint assertion Monday afternoon.
The assertion – signed by Congressman Kevin Mullin (fifteenth District), Congresswoman Anna Eshoo (sixteenth District), state Senator Josh Becker (thirteenth District), and Assemblymembers Marc Berman (twenty third District) and Diane Papan (twenty first District) – comes amid accusations of an inappropriate relationship with Corpus’ chief of employees, retaliation in opposition to officers and workers, and allegations of racist and homophobic slurs within the office.
“As elected leaders in San Mateo County, we are collectively calling for the resignation of Christina Corpus as Sheriff of San Mateo County,” the assertion reads. “The turmoil engulfing the Sheriff’s Office continues to damage the organization and its members, jeopardize public safety, and expose local taxpayers to avoidable liabilities.”
The leaders said, “Public safety is in the hands of the Sheriff and the staff who operate the County jail and provide law enforcement for numerous cities, as well as the Court. Our community deserves trustworthy, ethical, and collaborative leaders — especially from those who are sworn to protect us and uphold the law.”
Final week, retired decide LaDoris Cordell, a well known unbiased police auditor, launched a scathing 400-page report detailing a number of findings of misconduct involving Corpus and her chief of employees, Victor Aenlle.
“Lies, secrecy, intimidation, retaliation, conflict of interest, and abuses of authority are the hallmarks of the Corpus administration,” Cordell wrote.
The report was launched solely minutes after Corpus introduced the arrest of San Mateo County Deputy Sheriff’s Affiliation President Carlos Tapia for alleged “time card fraud.”
In two separate resolutions, the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors known as for Corpus’ resignation final week and expressed “no confidence” in her management. The board eradicated the Sheriff’s Government Director of Administration function, a place held by Aenlle, just for Corpus to advertise him to assistant sheriff.
County Government Mike Callagy added that Aenlle’s entry to all county buildings which can be closed to most of the people can be revoked.
Corpus has refused to resign, calling the inquiry “one-sided and filled with lies.”
“What has happened here over the past two days is disgusting. The inquiry was politically motivated, one-sided, and filled with lies,” she mentioned final week.
Corpus additionally has refuted all claims made in Cordell’s report, calling it defamatory and politically motivated, and vowing to battle what she described as a corrupt “good old boys” community within the county.
Requests for remark from Corpus’ workplace went unanswered Monday.
The assertion by space lawmakers, issued three days after Assistant Sheriff Matthew Fox’s resignation, describes Corpus’s administration — at present in battle with the Sheriff’s union — as an “agency in crisis.”
“This damning report, coupled with the dismissals and resignations of the entire command staff of the Sheriff’s Office, shows this is an agency in crisis,” the assertion learn. “Our county can no longer afford the chaos and failed leadership under Christina Corpus. Our communities deserve better.”
