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Sheriff outlines staffing gains, armory progress and body‑camera upgrade; board approves multiple sheriff budgets with amendment
Summary
Sheriff Bingham reported incremental staffing improvements, a capital armory project ahead of schedule and planned upgrades to body-worn cameras. The board approved the Sheriff's suite of budgets and an amendment to carry $101,114 in AB 109 revenue for an unfinished jail fencing project.
Sheriff Tony Bingham told the Board of Supervisors on June 25 that his office has made modest staffing gains, is advancing a major armory construction project and plans to install a new cloud-based body-worn camera system for deputies and jail staff.
Bingham said the department had recently hired corrections staff and expected additional deputies to start in late June and July: “We hired 2 new deputy sheriff corrections. 1 starting Monday next week, 1 starting on July 14,” and several recruits were in background checks. He described a recruitment effort that assigns younger deputies to recruitment duties and that the department had…
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