A coalition of social justice groups has launched an initiative campaign to place a measure on the 2026 ballot to create a sheriff’s civilian oversight committee and office of inspector general.

A failed attempt this week to create a Riverside County sheriff’s oversight committee isn’t the end of efforts to improve accountability and transparency in law enforcement, according to those behind ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. After her son, Richard Matus, died in a Riverside jail cell in 2022, Lisa Matus became convinced the county’s system ...

After a 182% increase in in-custody deaths over a 10-year period, the number of people who died in the custody of the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department dropped nearly 58% from 2021 through 2024, ...