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Sheriff’s Office COVID-19 Positive Cases Slow, Active Cases in Single Digits
Monday 03/01/2021
Santa Barbara, Calif. – The Sheriff’s Office is adding one additional staff member and two inmates to our total number of COVID-19, while reporting that our active cases for both inmates and staff have dropped to single digits. An additional member of our professional staff has been found to be COVID-19 positive, which brings the…
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Sheriff’s Office Celebrates National Reading Month
Monday 03/01/2021
Santa Barbara, Calif. – The Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office will share the joy of reading with a story time video during National Reading Month. The National Education Association has designated March “National Reading Month” with “Read Across America Day” on March 2. In years past, Sheriff’s staff were invited into classrooms across Santa Barbara…
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Sheriff’s Office Requests Continued Grant Funding for ATV Enforcement
Friday 02/26/2021
Santa Barbara, Calif. – The Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office is seeking grant funding to provide increased patrolling and enforcement of areas where illegal off-road vehicles are being used. The Sheriff’s Office has received a number of complaints about individuals on ATV’s primarily in the Santa Ynez riverbed and surrounding areas bordering the City of…
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Tuesday 02/23/2021
Santa Barbara, Ca. – At approximately 2:30 pm on February 19, 2021, custody staff at the Santa Barbara County Main Jail conducting routine security checks discovered 30-year-old Michael Anthony Remijio unresponsive in his cell. Remijio was hanging from a bedsheet he fashioned as a ligature in an apparent suicide attempt. Custody staff immediately rendered aid…
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Coroner’s Office Releases Findings in Brandy Vaughan Death Investigation
Thursday 02/18/2021
Santa Barbara, Calif. – The Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Coroner’s Office has completed the death investigation of local community activist Brandy Vaughan. The Coroner’s Office has determined that she died from natural causes. On December 7, 2020, 44-year-old Brandy Vaughan, a resident of Santa Barbara City, was found down in the bathroom of her East…
