DOJ issues requests to California sheriffs for information on noncitizen inmates and release dates as part of Trump ...

The Trump administration is asking California law enforcement for data on their migrant detainee population, as the sheriffs ...

Attorney General Pam Bondi sent letters to several California sheriffs on Thursday requesting the names “of all inmates in ...

The Alameda County Sheriff’s Office told The Oaklandside it has not yet received a request from the DOJ regarding the ...

An A.C.L.U. lawyer said it was possible that any sheriff who complied with the request could be in violation of California’s ...

Despite decades of efforts to reform policing in the United States and the massive anti-brutality demonstrations of 2020, police officers continue to avoid prosecution for murder charges and ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office later hit back at AG Pam Bondi by referencing the ongoing controversy over the ...

Journalist and legal scholar Jessica Pishko discusses the rise of far-right sheriffs in the US and argues that the office of ...

Constitutional Sheriffs are duly elected lawmen who believe they answer only to God. They’ve spent the last six months preparing to stop a “stolen” election—by any means necessary.

The Highest Law in the Land: How the Unchecked Power of Sheriffs Threatens Democracy, by Jessica Pishko, Dutton, 480 pages, $32 The Power of the Badge: Sheriffs and Inequality in the United States ...

Local sheriffs are on the front lines in the Trump administration’s mass deportation plans, states often make the choice for them. States are telling sheriffs whether they can — or can’t ...

Local sheriffs are on the front lines in deciding whether to participate in the Trump administration’s mass deportation plans. But states increasingly are making the choice for them. More and ...