Regarding the proposal for establishing an oversight committee for the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office. The prospect of establishing a costly, taxpayer funded oversight committee with a newly elected sheriff taking the helm of the department in a few weeks makes no sense to me. My experience with these types of feel good and look good committees is they are a solution looking for a problem. I do have a few basic questions for the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors should this boondoggle be approved; will there be a specific list of deliverables and accomplishments published on a regular basis? will there be an annual public review of this committee to determine if it should continue? will the members of the committee be attending costly conferences? I suspect if this committee is established it will live on like a cockroach, and no one will have the power or the political guts to kill it, leaving the sheriff's department with a bunch of frustrated, demoralized and beleaguered men and women constantly looking for other opportunities.
There is a new sheriff in town, so to speak, and her name is Christina Corpus. She ran on a platform of integrity and transparency and we the people, elected her. How about giving her a chance and then revisit this topic in a year or two. Rushing the premature idea for an oversight committee causes me think there are some nefarious and politically motivated sour grapes driving this.
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