https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/08/25/supervisors-propose-no-confidence-vote-for-santa-clara-county-sheriff/

Two Santa Clara County supervisors have proposed that the board issue a no-confidence vote for Sheriff Laurie Smith over her running of the South Bay’s jails and general management of the agency — failures they assert have cost taxpayers millions in legal settlements and have mired her office in high-profile corruption scandals.

In a Board of Supervisors memo and accompanying resolution made public Wednesday, supervisors Joseph Simitian and Susan Ellenberg are calling for the Aug. 31 no-confidence vote, based on their ongoing scrutiny of high-figure jail-abuse and neglect settlements, and a series of criminal indictments that have ensnared Smith associates both in her command and political inner circles.