Monterey County Local News: Crime & Justice

King City Police Department recently welcomed Javier Zavala to the force. A Greenfield native and Navy veteran, he was sworn in Aug. 8.

A new state Supreme Court ruling limits how police body camera videos may be used at trial.

The public now has its clearest picture yet of medical and mental health care conditions at Monterey County Jail after the release of previously sealed reports by neutral monitors charged with inspecting the state of the jail.

In 2016, Monterey County residents passed Measure Z, which would have banned new oil and gas development. Fighting against it, oil and gas interests have prevailed at every turn.

Carmel’s tab for the seven months its former police chief, Alan Ward, worked is a big one: It cost the city more than an estimated $364,200.

High-stress working conditions, highly-paid contract doctors have caused dangerous staff shortages.

It's a potentially long road to creating an oversight entity with authority over the Monterey County Sheriff's Office, but the process is underway.

Sara Rubin here, thinking about what we still don’t know about conditions at Monterey County Jail. As you can read in a story by Rey Mashayekhi that will run in print in the July 27 issue of the Weekly, and…

Since settling a class-action lawsuit over poor conditions at Monterey County Jail in 2015, the county and Wellpath, its health care provider at the jail, have been required to allow court-appointed neutral monitors at the facility.