Day One at the Kern County Sheriff's Office Peace Officer's Academy started six months ago with grinding physical training, ...

Kern County is looking to improve medical and behavioral health services in local jails by adding therapists, recovery ...

Court-appointed monitors of Sacramento County jails say a man’s fatal overdose was one of multiple deaths in which deputies ...

A woman was arrested Thursday morning for vandalism and resisting arrest after she allegedly took down a United States flag at Hart Park and raised the Mexican flag in its place, according to the ...

SINGAPORE – A senior staff nurse at the Institute of Mental Health ... On Jan 24, Hazrul, 34, was sentenced to one week’s jail after admitting to one offence under the Computer Misuse Act.

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK/KBFX) — The Kern County Sheriff's Employees Benefits Association is set to host its 11th annual honor run on March 8 at Hart Park. The event will commence at 7 a.m. and ...

Kern Medical brought awareness to human trafficking and highlighted the launch of its new task force dedicated to tackling human trafficking at an event on Thursday. The event, which took place in the ...

BAKERSFIELD — Despite calls from the public, the Kern County Board of Supervisors seems to have no intention of declaring sanctuary status for the county in the wake of immigration enforcement last ...

Investigators blame, in part, a chronic staff shortage going back at least five years that has impeded routine security checks at the Richland County jail and forced staff to monitor several units ...

A second time, a jail nurse got ... before the sheriff’s office was ever notified — or perhaps they were never notified,” Boroughs said at a news conference. The federal government continues to ...

The U.S. Department of Justice told the jail in Richland County, which includes South ... A second time, a jail nurse got a call from someone outside who watched the killing on Facebook Live ...