Embattled Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith said she wants to remove her deputies from two courthouses in the north and south parts of the county, effectively shutting those courthouses down.
Although courthouse staffing issues have long been a sore spot for the Sheriff's Office, no one was expecting such a sudden move by Smith. Her memo dropped on Friday afternoon before the long Memorial Day weekend.
Supervising Public Defender Gary Goodman, who works out of the Palo Alto office, told KPIX 5,"It's like an October surprise. You know it's coming but you drop it right before anybody can react to it."
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