A federal judge ruled that Maricopa County Sheriff Paul Penzone was not clearing the backlog on complaints over staff misconduct fast enough.
Maricopa County Sheriff Paul Penzone filed an appeal to a federal judge's November order finding him in contempt of court for not acting fast enough to close out investigations into alleged staff misconduct brought about by a 2008 case on racial profiling.is scheduled for a court hearing on Jan. 27, according to court documents. Snow's order called for Penzone to start reducing the backlog or saddle taxpayers with financial penalties.
Snow found that under then-Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the department engaged in systematic and widespread racial profiling of Latinos, leading to court-mandated reforms that created the backlog. Under the reforms, there was a system for community members to report misconduct for investigation. During an August 2021 hearing, a court management expert assigned to the case found that there were over 2,000 backlogged pending misconduct investigations and that a single one took close to two years to fully complete.
Penzone has led the Sheriff's Office since 2017 after he defeated Arpaio in 2016. The current sheriff has argued that despite the department lacking total compliance, the agency has made significant progress.A class-action lawsuit, Melendres v.
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