In his second stint in charge of the Citizens’ Law Enforcement Review Board, Paul Parker keeps coming up with new ways to try to exercise civilian oversight
Month after month, as people kept dying inside San Diego County jails, Paul Parker saw blind spots in the collective response to the cavalcade of deaths. The gaps have yet to be filled, but not because Parker isn’t trying. The senior official in charge of civilian oversight of the county sheriff’s and probation departments has no jurisdiction over the doctors and nurses responsible for treating thousands of men and women in the custody of Sheriff Kelly Martinez.
The mortality rate exceeded every other large California county, according to a six-month investigation published by The Union-Tribune in late 2019. The deaths — at least 140 between 2009 and 2019 — cost taxpayers millions of dollars in legal settlements and judgments. The Board of Supervisors called for an outside review of conditions inside the sheriff’s jails; state lawmakers from San Diego County called for a formal audit of jail operations.
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