AGENCY TESTIMONY
Calls for committee investigation and increased accountability
2:04:35
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Ingrid Simonovic concludes by calling for committee investigation and increased accountability for the Sheriff's Office.
- Requests an investigation into personnel deployment and prioritization of operations
- Calls for an audit of seized contraband storage practices
- Advocates for greater community accountability and regular public reporting of the Sheriff's Office performance
- Criticizes Sheriff Miranda for operating the office 'like his own personal fiefdom'
Ingrid Simonovic
2:04:35
1st and foremost, we are calling on the committee to investigate our personnel deployment and examine why deputies are being overly deploy on certain operations at the expense of orders.
2:04:50
2nd, we invite the committee to conduct an order into the storage of Seger's contraband to compel the sheriff to overhaul how cannabis and other taxes are impacting the health and safety of our members.
2:05:08
3rd, we need a greater community accountability into the operation of the sheriff's office.
2:05:14
The sheriff should have no regulatory re the sheriff should have to regulatory report.
2:05:22
His office performance indicating just like every other agency does.
2:05:27
Either directly on the sheriff's website or on the management report, both, of course, public facing.
2:05:34
For 2 long sheriff Miranda has operating his office like his own personal freedom, even as far as traveling to work in his city vehicle with license silence when there is no emergency.
2:05:47
The rear emergency is the way my members have been bullied, miss Rade, all while trembling on their rights as labor union members.
2:05:57
I think this committee for your time, I'll take any questions if anybody have.
Gale A. Brewer
2:06:02
Thank you very much.
