The Fresno County Sheriff's Office is holding back on disciplinary records that should be made public, a new lawsuit alleges. ACLU of Northern California filed the lawsuit in Fresno County Superior Court on Monday. They accuse the Sheriff's Office of not complying with a 2018 law requiring law enforcement agencies...
Mims to Meet Trump as President Visits California Wildfires
Fresno County Sheriff Margaret Mims will meet with Donald Trump as the president is scheduled to visit California on Monday. The president will travel to McClelland Park in Sacramento for a briefing on the wildfires. Mims, whose department has been handling the law enforcement end of the Creek Fire, will...
‘Take It Outside’ Vohra Recommends to Fresno Restaurants
Fresno County Public Health officials said Thursday that they expect bars and restaurants to comply with Gov. Gavin Newsom's order to close many indoor businesses. If restaurants want to offer customer dining, it needs to be outdoors or in a patio setting, they said. In addition, Newsom made it clear...
Dick’s Theft Suspects Mock Clovis Police After $0 Bail Release
To lower the jail population in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the state of California set bail at $0 for misdemeanors and so-called low-level felonies. In early April, the California Judicial Council said that it was done "to safely reduce jail populations." But Clovis Police Lt. Jim Munro says, "Zero dollar bail...
Sheriff Mims’ Billboard Message: Stay Home
Sheriff Margaret Mims has a simple message during the COVID-19 pandemic: Stay home. Mims will appear in two billboards that should be up today. They are at Clovis Avenue, south of Shields Avenue, and Blackstone Avenue, south of McKinley. "Staying homes means saving lives," the message says. Thank you #outfrontmediaus...
Fresno Deputy Shot in Leg While Responding to Property Dispute
A Fresno County Sheriff's deputy who was responding to a call about two neighbors arguing over a rural property boundary was shot Tuesday in the leg by one of the men. Fresno County Sheriff Margaret Mims said the suspect is holed up in his home in the foothill community of...
Sheriff Closes Lower Kings River to Public in Fresno County
Citing the high flows of cold water released from Pine Flat Dam, Fresno County Sheriff Margaret Mims closed the lower Kings River early Tuesday afternoon. Fresno County joined Tulare County and Kings County which previously ended recreational use of the lower river until the high waters recede. Pine Flat Releasing...
Trump Critic Becerra on MS-13 Gang: Not Animals, But Not Human Either
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra didn’t quite share President Donald Trump’s sentiments on the gang MS-13, but he came close. “When you talk about maiming human life, scarring them to the point that you don’t recognize them, I don’t know if you would call them human beings,” Becerra said at...
Fresno Sheriff Mims Joins Trump in Blasting California's Sanctuary State Laws
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Wednesday hammered California for its so-called sanctuary immigration policies, in what appeared to be his latest push to embolden his base leading into the midterm elections. As the debate over immigration heats up on Capitol Hill, Trump surrounded himself with mayors, sheriffs and other...
Can You Reduce the Risk of a Mass School Shooting in Fresno?
The Parkland, Florida, mass school shooting that claimed 17 lives in February ignited student-led protests — including one at Fresno High School — as well as debate and concern nationwide. According to the latest Public Policy Institute of California poll, 73 percent of adults and 82 percent of public school...