Overview

• The Board of Supervisors will decide in a public session after a closed meeting, and removal requires at least four of five votes.
• Retired Judge James Emerson, after a two-week hearing, wrote that a preponderance of evidence supports grounds for removal.
• His opinion cites four causes: a conflict tied to the hiring of Victor Aenlle, retaliation against the deputy sheriffs union leader, an arrest of the union president without probable cause, and retaliation against a captain.
• The authority to remove the elected sheriff comes from Measure A, passed in March, which temporarily amended the county charter to allow removal for cause.
• If the resolution is approved, the agenda says Corpus would be removed effective immediately.