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Placer County Sheriff’s Office to implement body cameras for deputies Share Updated: 5:45 PM PDT Apr 28, 2021 KCRA Staff Share Updated: 5:45 PM PDT Apr 28, 2021 Hide Transcript Show Transcript FIRST. THIS IS KCRA 3 NEWS AT 4:00. TEO: GOOD MORNING. IT’S WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28TH. I’M TEO TORRES. DEIRDRE: AND I’M DEIRDRE FITZPATRICK. HERE’S A LOOK AT OUR BIG STORIES TODAY. TEO: FOUR MORE COUNTIES HAVE MOVED TO THE LESS RESTRICTIVE ORANGE OR YELLOW TIERS. HOWEVER, SACRAMENTO, SAN JOAQUIN, STANISLAUS PLACER AND SOLANO COUNTIES REMAIN ...

A half-century ago, I was the editor of a small daily newspaper in Northern California and one of my reporters dug up a terrific story. He learned that that the county’s Board of Supervisors had privately compelled the county’s sheriff to receive alcoholism treatment by threatening to take away some of his administrative powers. The sheriff’s excessive drinking habits were well known to courthouse insiders and he had crashed at least one county vehicle while driving drunk, although it had been covered up. We published the story on the front page and it touched off a public fire...

In summary California’s elected sheriffs are feeling the heat in an era of heightened activism on criminal justice reform. A half-century ago, I was the editor of a small daily newspaper in Northern California and one of my reporters dug up a terrific story. He learned that that the county’s Board of Supervisors had privately compelled the county’s sheriff to receive alcoholism treatment by threatening to take away some of his administrative powers. The sheriff’s excessive drinking habits were well known to courthouse insiders and he had crashed at least one county vehicle while drivi...

A half-century ago, I was the editor of a small daily newspaper in Northern California and one of my reporters dug up a terrific story. He learned that that the county’s Board of Supervisors had privately compelled the county’s sheriff to receive alcoholism treatment by threatening to take away some