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Sheriff's Chief Deputy Appointed to Santa Cruz Sentinel Editorial Board
Chief Deputy Craig Wilson of the Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office has been appointed to the new editorial board of the Santa Cruz Sentinel. The process was initiated by the Sentinel's new managing editor, Kara Meyberg Guzman. The appointment raises serious questions concerning the Sentinel's journalistic independence, and the news organization's ability in the future to adequately respond editorially to issues of police brutality and brutality within the Santa Cruz jail system. Wilson oversees Santa Cruz County's corrections Bureau, a department he has managed as deaths spiked at the jail. According to Guzman, the new editorial board will, "begin researching and meeting with candidates in late March, and you’ll start seeing our editorials with our endorsements for the major local races by early April."
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In October of 2014, Wilson was promoted by Santa Cruz Sheriff Jim Hart from lieutenant to chief deputy, and it was announced that Wilson would be taking over the management of the Santa Cruz County corrections bureau. On November 5, 2014, shortly after Wilson's appointment, 65-year-old Sharyon Gibbs was found dead in the jail. She was the sixth person to have died while in custody at the Santa Cruz County Jail since 2012. Less than a year after Wilson's appointment to deputy chief, another person died in the jail. Krista DeLuca died in the main jail on September 29, 2015.
According to the Sheriff's office, Wilson "began his career in law enforcement in 1986 as a correctional officer at Soledad State Prison. Craig joined the Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office in 1988 and has worked as a deputy in patrol, courts and investigations; a sergeant in patrol, investigations and administration; and a lieutenant in corrections and administration."
The Sentinel's new editorial board will consist of four other "community members" besides Wilson, as well as the Sentinel's opinion editor Don Miller and features editor Anthony L. Solis. They include: Kayla Layaoen, a UC Santa Cruz student; Raymon Cancino, CEO of Community Bridges; Ted Burke, owner of the Shadowbrook Restaurant and co-owner of the Crow’s Nest; Jeff Galipeaux, director of employee benefits at Capitola’s CalNonprofits Insurance and vice chair of the Arts Council of Santa Cruz County’s board.
Photo Credit: Then lieutenant Craig Wilson helps dismantle Occupy Santa Cruz (Bradley Stuart: Santa Cruz Co. Sheriff's Dept. Dismantles Occupy Santa Cruz Geodesic Dome and Structures at Courthouse https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/12/04/18701700.php)
According to the Sheriff's office, Wilson "began his career in law enforcement in 1986 as a correctional officer at Soledad State Prison. Craig joined the Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office in 1988 and has worked as a deputy in patrol, courts and investigations; a sergeant in patrol, investigations and administration; and a lieutenant in corrections and administration."
The Sentinel's new editorial board will consist of four other "community members" besides Wilson, as well as the Sentinel's opinion editor Don Miller and features editor Anthony L. Solis. They include: Kayla Layaoen, a UC Santa Cruz student; Raymon Cancino, CEO of Community Bridges; Ted Burke, owner of the Shadowbrook Restaurant and co-owner of the Crow’s Nest; Jeff Galipeaux, director of employee benefits at Capitola’s CalNonprofits Insurance and vice chair of the Arts Council of Santa Cruz County’s board.
Photo Credit: Then lieutenant Craig Wilson helps dismantle Occupy Santa Cruz (Bradley Stuart: Santa Cruz Co. Sheriff's Dept. Dismantles Occupy Santa Cruz Geodesic Dome and Structures at Courthouse https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/12/04/18701700.php)
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Expect a higher than usual slew of "law and order" candidate endorsements, definitely no one who calls for serious police accountability on the streets or in the jails. Heaven forbid any candidate advocates for reigning in law enforcement budgets or reducing bails and prison sentences.
This was just the beginning...
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/scso-cfmg-force-my-hand-advocate-federal-prosecution-john-colby/
My clients have testified to the FBI about torture, rape, sexual abuse and stalking — among other crimes by jail deputies — at the Santa Cruz Main Jail on Water Street. The Sentinel knows about this but chooses to be local apologists for a law enforcement agency which is ready for a federal takedown.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/scso-cfmg-force-my-hand-advocate-federal-prosecution-john-colby/
My clients have testified to the FBI about torture, rape, sexual abuse and stalking — among other crimes by jail deputies — at the Santa Cruz Main Jail on Water Street. The Sentinel knows about this but chooses to be local apologists for a law enforcement agency which is ready for a federal takedown.
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