A man beaten by two inmates in the John J. Benoit Detention Center filed suit against Riverside Sheriff Chad Bianco, the Riverside Sheriff’s Department and Riverside County on Oct. 14.

California Central District Judge John Holcomb threw out a case July 17 that alleged the actions of Hemet police officers violated a family’s civil rights. The March 3, 2022 complaint claims that Ryan Gadison was targeted by Hemet police officers for being “an African American male driving a ‘nice’

This year, Assemblymember Jacqui Irwin, a Democrat from Thousand Oaks, is proposing a new bill to establish education standards based on those recommendations, but some law enforcement and criminal justice reform advocates are skeptical — albeit for different reasons.

Two former employees of the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office have been sent to jail after being convicted of accepting bribes from a tow company owner. Ex-Lieutenant Samuel Flores was sentenced to two years of formal probation and 270 days in county jail. Ex-Sergeant Robert Christolon was sentenced to two

Sheriff’s deputies can be found guilty of negligence in civil tort cases even if they do not use excessive force, a published April 29 ruling from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal found. The ruling comes from the case of Kevin Niedzialek, who died July 30, 2019, a day

A San Bernardino jury has awarded victims more than $100 million seven years after a firearm-brandishing state employee caused a fatal crash off the I-215. The jury found the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation responsible for the actions of their correctional officer, Michael William Becker, who ran Glenn Bolden