The probe targeting Sheriff Laurie Smith’s inner circle was triggered by San Jose Inside’s inquiry into a suspicious campaign contribution.

Santa Clara County’s six-term sheriff and her closest allies are the subject of an ongoing criminal inquiry led by the office of DA Jeff Rosen.

In which we look back on all the strange, infuriating and preposterous things that went down in 2018 and say, “Sayonara!”

John Hirokawa forced his former boss into her first runoff, but Sheriff Laurie Smith still managed to secure a commanding lead.

Newly unearthed records reveal how the sheriff candidate helped Morrissey keep his job, get good assignments and sue Santa Clara County.

Santa Clara County has agreed to settle a lawsuit filed by former inmate Rikki Martinez, who says he was brutally beaten by jail guards.

Don Morrissey, a twice-demoted deputy who recently resigned as union president, is set to give up his badge this weekend.

The Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office has far exceeded its overtime budget in the past six years, according to a newly published audit.

The texting scandal cost sheriff challenger John Hirokawa an endorsement from the Santa Clara County Democratic Club.

The ex-undersheriff says he neglected to refile a candidate statement out of confusion and because the county misinformed him.

While state agencies have undergone a reckoning over sexual harassment, local governments have largely escaped scrutiny—until now.

Don Morrissey, the embattled president of the Santa Clara County Deputy Sheriffs’ Association, said he’s ready to step down.

San Jose’s police union pulled its endorsement of retired undersheriff John Hirokawa’s campaign to unseat his former boss, Sheriff Laurie Smith.

Retired Undersheriff John Hirokawa has changed his mind about whether the county should have fired one of his biggest supporters.

A growing number of officers plan to withdraw from the DSA unless the union head resigns for his involvement in an obscene texting scandal.

California’s biggest public safety organization, PORAC, parted ways with twice-demoted deputy and DSA union boss Don Morrissey.