A civilian watchdog on Tuesday urged the King County Sheriff’s Office to adopt policies to rapidly correct wrong information released to the news media, without directly referring to mistakes that occurred in a deputy’s shooting of a 20-year-old man a year ago.
The recommendation was a centerpiece of a 33-page report commissioned by Deborah Jacobs, director of the county’s Office of Law Enforcement Oversight (OLEO), and presented to the Metropolitan King County Council’s Law and Justice Committee.
The report, written
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