San Mateo County supervisors are applying more pressure on embattled Sheriff Christina Corpus to resign.
On Tuesday, the board of supervisors approved unanimously a proposal to place a measure on the March ballot asking voters to amend the county charter to allow supervisors to remove a sheriff with cause with a four-fifths vote.The move comes a week after a scathing report accused Corpus of having an improper work romance and for using racial and homophobic slurs.
I have never and would never use those words."In the report, San Mateo County Judge LaDoris Cordell said, ""Lies, secrecy, intimidation, retaliation, conflicts of interest, and abuses of authority are all the hallmarks of the Corpus administration. Corpus should step down and Victor Aenlle's employment with the Sheriff's Office should be terminated immediately. Nothing short of new leadership can save this organization that is in turmoil, and its personnel demoralized.
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