The Justice Department said Friday it supports Maricopa County's push to end federal oversight of the sheriff's office ...

Federal Judge G. Murray Snow didn’t require the sheriff’s office to show its work when an independent audit found it overestimated compliance costs by $160 million, but is now fed up with county ...

PHOENIX — Maricopa County Recorder Justin Heap is asking a judge to stop an audit of the county’s election system after it was authorized by the Board of Supervisors. It’s the latest twist in an ...

PHOENIX – In a ruling issued Thursday, an Arizona judge rejected Maricopa County Recorder Justin Heap’s request to stop an election system audit authorized by the Board of Supervisors (BOS). Heap, a ...

Maricopa County leaders are asking a federal judge to end the costly oversight of the sheriff's office in long-running civil rights lawsuit.

A court-ordered audit found the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office spent millions by attributing unrelated expenses to a federal civil rights case. The audit revealed that over 70% of the $219 million ...

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — A court-ordered audit finds that Maricopa County has overstated its claims of federal oversight of its sheriff’s office, which the county claimed has cost taxpayers $350 million.

An audit found the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office misattributed $163 million in expenses to a racial profiling lawsuit. The report concluded that 72% of the $226 million claimed for lawsuit ...

The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office was handcuffed in its budgeting. Its spending growth each year was constrained by a formula outlined in the Arizona Constitution. But any expenses tied to ...