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A parolee who would sneak up on sunbathers in San Diego and kiss their buttocks was convicted of sexual battery and banned from local beaches, the office of San Diego City Attorney Mara Elliott announced Thursday.

Family and friends of inmates at San Diego-area jails will be allowed to make in-person visits beginning Friday, ending a two-month suspension of the privilege due to the surging COVID-19 pandemic.

San Diego County has agreed to pay millions of dollars to a family whose loved one took his own life in jail. The death and lawsuit that followed have also spurred serious changes in how the jail treats people with mental illness.

San Diego County has agreed to pay millions of dollars to a family whose loved one took his own life in jail. NBC 7’s Alexis Rivas has the story.

The San Diego County Sheriff’s Department and the Health and Human Services Agency’s Behavioral Health Services division, under an agreement announced Wednesday, will seek to develop a better way to provide behavioral and physical health services in the county’s seven detention facilities.

Local leaders announced efforts to improve the mortality rate of inmates in San Diego County jails. NBC 7’s Allie Raffa has more on the program aimed to act as a remedy.

An inmate at the George Bailey Detention Facility in Otay Mesa may have infected 46 other inmates with COVID-19 before he started showing symptoms of the virus, authorities said Tuesday.

Inmates at a St. Louis jail set fires, caused flooding, broke out fourth-floor windows and tossed a stationary bike, chairs, mattresses and other things

The American Civil Liberties Union filed a public records request Monday seeking information regarding a surge of COVID-19 cases in San Diego County jail facilities, which it alleges are overcrowded and in need of an urgent inmate population reduction in order to stem the spread of the virus.

A 26-year-old inmate who was found hanging in his San Diego jail cell died by suicide, authorities reported Monday.

Prosecutors say President Donald Trump’s ex-personal lawyer was returned to prison because he refused to sign an agreement describing terms of his home confinement, not because he planned to publish a book critical of Trump

Prosecutors say President Donald Trump’s ex-personal lawyer was returned to prison because he refused to sign an agreement describing terms of his home confinement, not because he planned to publish a book critical of Trump.

The former deputy resigned following the shooting after 18 months with the sheriff’s department.

A former San Diego County Sheriff’s Department deputy accused of shooting and killing a mentally ill man who had escaped custody outside the downtown jail in May has been charged with second-degree murder, the San Diego District Attorney’s Office confirmed Monday.

NBC 7 has learned the San Diego County Sheriff’s deputy that opened fire on a mentally ill man who escaped custody last week is no longer with the department. In a statement, a spokesman for the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department told NBC 7 that Deputy Aaron Russell tendered his resignation on Wednesday, May 6, five days after the deadly…

Nicholas Bils was running away when a sheriff’s deputy shot and killed him last week, reports NBC Investigates’ Alexis Rivas.

A mother wants answers after her son was fatally shot by a sheriff’s deputy on Friday. NBC 7 Investigates reporter Alexis Rivas has more.

Three days after a deputy fatally shot a man running away from state park rangers outside the county jail downtown, police are keeping an unusually tight lid on the investigation.

The San Diego County Sheriff’s Department was expected to release approximately 400 inmates without bail by Thursday in order to comply with a state order to reduce prison populations in an effort to minimize the spread of COVID-19.

Health experts say prisons and jails are considered a potential epicenter for America’s coronavirus pandemic.