San Diego
A Superior Court judge Thursday rejected a request from the Deputy Sheriff’s Assn. for a temporary restraining order that could have kept the county from moving forward with a citizens review board approved by voters last November.
Superior Court Judge Wayne Peterson denied the request but set a hearing for Jan. 18 on the association’s request for a permanent injunction to stop the county from establishing the review panel.
Voters in November gave county supervisors the authority to create a review panel. The board is scheduled to consider the ordinance Jan. 29 and Feb. 5 before adopting it.
If approved, the public review panel will be empowered to investigate citizen complaints, including allegations of excessive force, sexual harassment, improper shootings, illegal search and seizure, false arrest, criminal conduct and misconduct.
Attorneys for the deputies association argued in a lawsuit filed last week that the county did not “meet and confer” with the organization before county supervisors placed the measure, called Proposition A, on the November ballot.
The association is attempting to have the election declared “null and void.”
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