A Santa Clara County jail guard has been suspended from work after his arrest Monday on suspicion of molesting a child in 2012.

A new report traces some of the problems at Santa Clara County’s jails to a lack of staffing, training, funding and a deeply divided work culture.

Sheriff Laurie Smith left in the middle of a hearing on jail reforms Tuesday, but her early exit rubbed some people the wrong way.

A reform commission created after the fatal beating of a mentally ill inmate wants to wrest control of the jails from Sheriff Laurie Smith.