It's no secret that Sacramento County failed miserably at using federal Covid-19 relief funds for the designated purpose. Consider parks: the Governor issued a Covid Executive Order for people to stay home. But he added that people should exercise in their local parks. And that's just what people did. All across our region, local parks were busy with walkers, joggers, playground users and dog-…

The Bee has reported that Sacramento County Grand Jury released a scathing report about how Sacramento County mishandled its duty to protect public health during the Covid-19 pandemic. You can read the Grand Jury report here:

In our prior reporting on our County Sheriff's apparent indifference to the public, we have noted that the Board of Supervisors holds his department's purse strings, thus co-owning responsibility for those actions. We have also pointed out that there is a difference between local law enforcement (municipal policing) and areawide law enforcement (countywide policing duties such as running the jail…