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New Jail Concerns: Budget Over Safety?

A state rule bars the legislature from considering new laws that add to the prison population.…
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Local Sheriffs React to Supreme Court Ruling

San Mateo County's plans for a new jail facility to reduce overcrowding aligns with the…
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Town Hall Meeting Set to Discuss Inmates Coming to the…

About 100 "low-level" inmates have already been freed from state prisons and sent to San Mateo…
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Supes Show Support to Build New $160M Jail

Sheriff says a new jail is necessary to combat overcrowding.
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MAYOR: State Prison Population Cuts Will Burden Cities

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that California would have to cut the population to no more than…
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Cleaning Woman Raped by Security Guard at EA's Local Offices

The rapist was sentenced to nine years in state prison this week.
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Live: How Should the County Address the Influx of Inmates?

Join the discussion as Patch covers the meeting live as San Mateo County officials host a…
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Town Hall Forum: State Public Safety Realignment

San Mateo County will host a town hall meeting this evening to discuss the county's new…
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Man Gets 11 Years in Prison for Burglarizing Former DA's…

The suspect stole the former DA's wallet and used the credit card fraudulently several times.
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Suspects Embezzle $450,000 from County

Joanne Seeney and Vika Sinipata face up to eight years in prison for embezzling more than…
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Gennifer Choldenko: author of Al Capone Does My Shirts

If your dad was a prison guard and your whole family lived on Alcatraz in the 1930’s, it’s…
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Woodside Man Found Guilty of Murdering Wife

The San Mateo County District Attorney announced Thursday that a man accused of murdering his…
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Supes Suggest Light, Airy New Jail Designs

Anti-jail protesters show up to oppose project moving forward.
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Group to Protest Outside Jail Saturday

'Californians United for a Responsible Budget' plans to hold a rally in protest of the…
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County Soliciting Feedback on New Jail

County supervisors and the Sheriff will hold a jail planning study session to determine…
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Cases of Minors Accused of Sexually Assaulting Minors in…

California has had a few cases of similar nature to the recently discovered assault by three…
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Former Portola Valley School District Superintendent Takes…

Timothy Hanretty previously denied sloughing more than $100,000 from the district to remodel…
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County Handling More Inmates, More Probation Cases Under…

A new report to be presented today reveals an increase of 15 percent more inmates assigned to…
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Man Who Viciously Attacked Local College Student in Court…

His trial is expected to start soon. The District Attorney's Office is pursuing a sentence of…
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County Supes Adopt Jail Realignment Plan

The plan will accommodate hundreds of low-level offenders coming into Redwood City.
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Woman Pleads No Contest to Embezzlement

Claudia Prior charged $93,000 in personal purchases on her firm's credit card, then forged…
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Screening of Award Winning Film, Crime After Crime

CORA - San Mateo County's only agency with the sole purpose of serving victims/survivors of…
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Redwood City Murder Suspect Killed in Mexico

Eight years after a Redwood City man accused of murder fled the U.S. to escape authorities,…
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Man Who Shot His Friend in the Face Gets 38 Years in Prison

Okalani Latu reportedly shot his friend in the face after they were both out drinking all…
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Suspect in 1986 Cold Case Murder Pleads Not Guilty

John William Kelley, 50, is accused of raping and murdering a 17-year-old in Santa Cruz…
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Man Tries to Smuggle Drugs Through SFO in False Bottoms of…

U.S. customs agents said they found the suitcases to be 'unusually heavy.'
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UPDATE: Former Woodside School Official Sentenced to Two…

The amount Timothy Hanretty will be ordered to pay in restitution will be decided at a later…
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Dear Super Committee: Tax the 1% More

Peninsula resident Scott Weikart points to the discrepancy between the 1%’s income and their…
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Burglar Had $12,000 Between His Buttocks

How three burglars tried to 'hide their stash' from Redwood City and Belmont police is rather…
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Local Area on Alert After String of Mailbox Thefts

Several mailboxes in the area were broken into and their mail contents stolen this week.
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