Nov. 13, 2024

For Immediate Release

Redwood City – The San Mateo County Board of Supervisors today unanimously took a vote of no confidence in Sheriff Christa Corpus and demanded her immediate resignation in response to an independent investigator’s reportconcluding the sheriff fostered a culture of retaliation, maintains an inappropriate personal relationship with her executive director of administration and used racial and homophobic slurs.

The Board also immediately terminated the executive director of administration position — a new civilian post created at the request of the sheriff for Victor Aenlle with a salary of nearly $250,000— and ordered an ordinance asking voters to amend the County Charter to allow the Board to remove the sheriff upon a finding of good cause. A proposed Charter amendment could come to voters in March 2025. After the sheriff announced at the meeting she was elevating Aenlle to the position of assistance sheriff, the Board directed the County attorney to investigate the legality of such a move.

The Board called its special Wednesday afternoon meeting specifically in response to the independent investigator Judge LaDoris Cordell’s conclusion that “lies, secrecy, intimidation, retaliation, conflicts of interests and abuses of authority are the hallmarks of the Corpus administration.”

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