Lower than per week after the California State Auditor released a scathing report about deaths within the San Diego County jail system, the Sheriff’s Division on Monday introduced the promotion of a brand new assistant sheriff who will oversee the jails.
Cmdr. Theresa Adams-Hydar will likely be promoted Feb. 25 to assistant sheriff of the Detention Companies Bureau.
(Courtesy of San Diego County Sheriff’s Division)
Cmdr. Theresa Adams-Hydar, who has labored 27 years for the division, will likely be promoted to assistant sheriff of the Detention Companies Bureau on Feb. 25, based on a information launch.
She’ll take over for Assistant Sheriff Erika Frierson, who is about to retire, in overseeing the county’s seven detention services. The jails have a mixed common every day inhabitants of greater than 5,000 inmates, based on the division.
Sheriff’s officers didn’t say what prompted Frierson’s retirement or when she introduced her intention to take action.
The announcement of Adams-Hydar’s promotion comes days after Invoice Gore stepped down with 10 months left in his term, and in the future earlier than the county Board of Supervisors is scheduled to debate tips on how to proceed appointing an interim sheriff to complete the time period.
The state audit launched Thursday — the identical day Gore retired — stated the county’s jails are so unsafe and poor that state lawmakers ought to intervene.
“Given the continuing threat to the security of incarcerated people, the Sheriff’s Division’s insufficient response to deaths and the dearth of efficient impartial oversight, we consider the Legislature should take motion to make sure that the Sheriff’s Division implements significant change,” the report stated.
In accordance with the report — components of which the Sheriff’s Division disputed — 185 individuals died in San Diego County jail custody between 2006 and 2020.
“Till the Sheriff’s Division implements significant change to enhance its provision of medical and psychological well being care in its detention services, it is going to proceed to jeopardize the security and lives of people in its custody,” the report stated.
Adams-Hydar started her Sheriff’s Division profession as a jail deputy in 1995. She graduated two years later from the Sheriff’s Regulation Enforcement Academy and labored patrol and investigations early in her profession. As a captain, she was answerable for the substation that oversees Encinitas, Solana Seaside and Del Mar.
Her most up-to-date position as a commander within the Regulation Enforcement Companies Bureau had Adams-Hydar overseeing the emergency companies division, together with the bomb/arson unit, search and rescue, the SWAT unit and the sheriff’s ASTREA helicopter program. In that position, she additionally managed the sheriff’s communications heart, crime laboratory and Homeless Help Useful resource Workforce, amongst different issues.
Adams-Hydar “will lead the Sheriff’s Division’s continued efforts to enhance well being care and companies in county jails,” the division stated within the information launch. “These enhancements will embody hiring extra sworn {and professional} employees, renovations at our detention services, growing connectivity to group companies for continuation of care, main the collaborative effort between the Sheriff’s Division and our county companions, in addition to the various different investments which might be presently underway with our employees and jail system.”
The Division stated these modifications that Adams-Hydar will lead “will make our jails safer for the individuals in our custody and our workers, whereas persevering with to assist our already profitable packages.”
