El Paso sheriff did not act reasonably in firing employee who supported political rival, court decides gazette.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from gazette.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Worries that potential co-conspirators in the murder of Colorado Corrections chief Tom Clements escaped criminal charges prompted the office of former Gov. John Hickenlooper to push corrections officials to hire a retired FBI agent to review the case and state policies, records and interviews show.
The retired agent submitted his findings to the state in August 2018, but his report has never been shared with the public despite the state paying his firm nearly $40,000. The handling of the case has long been a source of contention in El Paso County. Critics maintain El Paso County Sheriff Bill Elder and El Paso County District Attorney Dan May mishandled aspects of the case.
Eight months into the pandemic and four months after the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office received up to $15.6 million in COVID-19 relief funds, the county jail became the site of one of the state’s largest coronavirus outbreaks, with staff and inmates stating that they were not given adequate equipment to protect themselves.
The more than 1,200 inmates that pass through the jail on any given day were not given a mask until the week before last after the virus had infected hundreds of inmates and dozens of deputies. Before the week of Nov. 1, masks were only provided when moving throughout the jail.
ACLU sues El Paso County Sheriff over jail’s COVID-19 precautions
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) The American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado has filed a lawsuit against El Paso County Sheriff Bill Elder for his how he handled the spread of COVID-19 in his jail.
More than 1,000 El Paso County jail inmates tested positive for coronavirus in a late October outbreak, according to public health leaders.
The ACLU lawsuit claims Sheriff Elder acted with deliberate indifference by failing to provide masks for inmates until late October and early November after two-thirds of the jail population tested positive for COVID-19.
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