County budget up 10% over last year, adds 43 county jobs

board-of-supervisors-1000911238

 The Sonoma County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously June 14 to adopt its Fiscal Year 2024-2025 balanced budget, representing approximately $2.5 billion in total expenditures, a 10% increase from the prior fiscal year. The final budget adds

Deputies Taser Trespassing Suspect in Petaluma

emergency-lights-on-a-us-police-car-43

Sonoma County Deputies tasered a trespasser who approached them aggressively. On Sunday morning, deputies were sent to a property on Live Oak Drive in Petaluma where a suspect had broken into a barn and then chased nearby cattle.

Grandy Jury Points Out Flaws at Sonoma County Jail

prison-cells-2

A new report from a civil grand jury is critical of the mental health care system and other conditions in Sonoma County Jail. The report, released Tuesday, names several issues, including chronic understaffing, inmates’ prolonged confinement to