LOS ANGELES – Two Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies were fired and eight others were disciplined after a jail suicide revealed how they cheated a bar code system to avoid checking cells regularly, the Associated Press reported.
Deputies use a bar code reader to scan checkpoints as they walk the cell rows checking on inmates. A falsified log allegedly showed a deputy scanned all points within 35 seconds. A copy of the bar codes was found on a deputy’s desk.
SACRAMENTO – Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has nominated appellate state Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye to become California’s chief judge. The Sacramento native is a Filipina American and the second woman and first nonwhite ever named to that position.
Voters will decide in November whether to approve the appointment.
SAN DIEGO – Prison guard Matthew Gutierrez is facing charges of attempting to smuggle 11 ounces of fake cocaine into the federal Metropolitan Correctional Center. Investigators said an informant provided Gutierrez with the fake drug.