
Revisiting the Kropholler Settlement: Shasta County Paid $2.8 Million to Settle a Whistleblower Suit. Its Own Investigator Had Already Rejected Most of the Underlying Claims.
Back in January 2025 the Board of Supervisors voted in an unannounced closed session to pay former Sheriff's Captain Pat Kropholler nearly $2.8 million to end his retaliation lawsuit — five months after the county's own investigator found most of his allegations not sustained.






