SANTA ANA, Calif. (CNS)—Orange County Sheriff Don Barnes on May 27 said he would appeal a federal judge’s ruling requiring more efforts to combat COVID-19 in the county’s jails.
On May 26, U.S. District Judge Jesus Bernal granted certification in a class action lawsuit filed by inmates and their attorneys with the American Civil Liberties Union that demanded more efforts to clean up the jails and provide more cleaning supplies to inmates, but denied a restraining order that would have granted the release of hundreds of inmates.
