San Jose Mayor calling for resignation of Santa Clara County Sheriff

(Sheriff Smith)

San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo wants Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith to resign.

According to ABC7 Bay Area, Mayor Licardo is the listed the following reasons for Sheriff Smith to resign:

• repeated severe beatings of inmates resulting in death and serious injury


• repeated concealment of facts relating to those incidents, and persistent noncompliance with independent oversight


• tens of millions of taxpayer dollars paid to litigants for civil rights violations by deputies under Sheriff Smith's watch


• two consent decrees resulting in $450 million in public expenditure to improve jail operations and conditions


• an ongoing bribery criminal investigation which has resulted in three indictments of two of her top aides and a campaign fundraiser