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Video and photographs obtained by North State Breakdown show federal agents in vests marked "POLICE ICE" and "ERO" walking a man to an unmarked pickup truck. The encounter comes amid a sharp rise in detentions at a Redding ICE facility that city officials have said they knew little about.
Tuesday's consent calendar carries the county's own written admission that Public Works broke the Clean Water Act, a Planning Commissioner removed with no explanation on the record at all, and a legal contract with no spending ceiling left on it. Four property owners owe the county $560,940 they haven't paid — and outside the meeting, both unions representing elections staff are lining up to tell the board they want Clint Curtis gone.
Tuesday's agenda carries the board's first attempt to censure an elected department head — who now says he'll sue the county if it does — plus a closed session on the lawsuit over a jail site the Sheriff walked away from six days earlier, the roughly $56 million suit against the DA that a judge just threw out, and a consent calendar where one vendor's campaign contribution sits four and a half months upstream of its $155,000 contract.
Tuesday's agenda looks like routine summer housekeeping — but a single opioid-funded college report opens onto the $4 million the county steered to two nonprofits run by the committee members who recommended it, and the accountability policy the board promised for July that never appeared.
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.
Two charter measures voters rejected in 2024 get their final vote Tuesday — at the meeting certifying the election that unseated their sponsor, under brand-new public-comment time caps, with a $565,000 Axon contract riding consent.
Supervisors weigh a letter backing a contested state public-records bill and a new policy to auto-delete non-record county emails after a year, alongside a $7.5 million mental-health contract, an expanded CEO spending limit and the certification of James Gallagher's congressional win.
Supervisors take the first votes to send two rejected 2024 charter measures — on eminent domain and elected-office vacancies — back to the November ballot, adopt a $658 million budget and backfill $235,057 in victim services.
Tuesday's Shasta County agenda asks supervisors to revive two charter amendments voters rejected in 2024, advance an 18% nonprofit cost cap the county's own auditor and counsel won't endorse, and decide in closed session whether to defend Measure B against the state's lawsuit. A guide to what's on the table — and what's worth watching.
The Shasta County Board of Supervisors meets Monday with one of its most consequential agendas of the year: the formal opening of FY 2026-27 budget hearings that will run into next week, a vote on a first-of-its-kind artificial intelligence use policy, and a public hearing to rewrite the county's accessory dwelling unit code. The board will also consider a five-year, $6.2 million renewal with GEO Reentry Services — a subsidiary of one of the largest private prison and detention operators in t...
