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The San Mateo County Board of Supervisors moved closer to removing Sheriff Christina Corpus after county elections officials certified the results of the Measure A special election on Thursday, April 3.
Measure A, which passed with 84% approval, grants the supervisors authority to remove Corpus through an official proceeding an ytime until her current term ends. The board will determine the removal process, provided Corpus is given “a reasonable opportunity to be heard regarding any explanation or defense,” according to the measure’s text.
The board will formally accept the election results at its April 8 meeting, with the measure taking effect on April 13, county spokesperson Michelle Durand said. However, Durand noted that “next steps have not been announced.”
“While the initiative was in many ways unprecedented, it is our firm belief that, in this case, decisive action was necessary. Today’s certified vote means that Sheriff Corpus’s reign of unscrupulous mismanagement will soon come to an end,” read a joint statement from the Deputy Sheriffs’ Association and the Organization of Sheriff’s Sergeants.
Corpus previously told this news organization that she plans to fight her job and will not step down.
The final tally showed 90,900 voters supported Measure A — surpassing the 82,622 votes Corpus received when elected.
Corpus previously urged voters to reject Measure A, arguing it would “steal (the public’s) right to vote” and allow supervisors to “pick their own crony instead.”
Both the county and the sheriff currently face multiple legal claims, and several lawsuits remain ongoing in court.
