The board voted four to one – with 5th District Supervisor Steve Madrone dissenting – to lift the hiring freeze for 25 positions, mostly consisting of correctional deputy positions, but including a lateral deputy sheriff hire and a dispatcher.
Of the deaths, three were killed as part of a murder-suicide, a departure from recent years. In one case, the victim, Mayra Dory, was killed by her husband, who fatally shot himself after his wife. Humboldt County Sheriff William Honsal said this year in particular, the county’s violent crimes saw the complex and devastating intersection of drugs, severe mental illness and domestic violence.re needs to be some intervention there, because sometimes someone needs to go to jail when they've crossed the line in order to set them on the right path, and they should make different decisions to not put themselves in a situation like that,” Honsal said. “I would just highly encourage people to seek help.”
A year after state legislation went into effect that solidified the feather alert system in California, which notifies the public about Indigenous people who have gone missing similar to an AMBER alert, legislators, tribal leaders and police representatives met Wednesday in Sacramento. Hosted by Assemblymember James C. Ramos, who authored the legislation, the Assembly Select Committee on Native American Affairs hearing hashed out how the system has gone so far.
The $4,703,840 in estimated damages were largely concentric to county roads and bridges and could qualify for reimbursement under the California Disaster Assistance Act. Humboldt County Public Works Director Tom Mattson said that, relative to the amount of rain dumped over several days, the county “dodged a bullet.”
Authorities are searching for Zoe Penrod who was last seen wandering alongside the road in a bathrobe weeks after the mother said she was hearing voices following the birth of her daughter