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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

As Sylvia Herrera recalled, she was at a meeting with Maricopa County Sheriff Paul Penzone as he talked about how much money the agency was spending to comply with a federal judge’s orders in a racial ...

An audit found Maricopa County and its Sheriff's Office overstated compliance costs for a racial profiling lawsuit by $163 million. The misattributed expenses represent 72% of the total costs assigned ...