Our hearts are collectively breaking as tonight’s tragedy at a protest over officer-involved shootings in Dallas continues to unfold. Four Dallas-area police officers were assassinated at the protest by at least one sniper and at least another seven officers had been shot, according to…
The AOCDS Scholarship Program will award scholarships to ten Class of 2016 high school seniors. Each scholarship is a $2,000.00 one-time award. One applicant will be awarded the Dr. David Ascher M.D. Memorial Scholarship (11 scholarships total). To be eligible, the…
Calls of someone threatening suicide come in often — two or three a week, at least — but none in the deputies’ experience have ended up like the one April 27. Three Orange County Sheriff’s Department deputies at about 6:30 p.m. were dispatched…
A special edition of the Courier featuring the results of the 2nd Annual AOCDS Leadership Assessment Survey was mailed to all AOCDS members Friday April 15, 2016. You should be receiving the Courier within a few days at the address you have on file…
Deputy Courtney Ward is battling a rare form of cervical cancer and needs our help. She is currently in Maryland undergoing an immunotherapy trial in the hopes of fighting back her cancer which so far has been resistant to treatment. Fourteen months ago,…
AOCDS has recently learned of issues inside the County Central Men’s Jail (“CMJ”) that have led us to determine the CMJ is an unsafe working environment for our members. The CMJ is also an unsafe housing location for the violent, hardened criminals AOCDS members…
Day in and day out our deputy sheriffs, investigators, sergeants and district attorney investigators go to work with the sole purpose of protecting the public. That commitment largely goes unnoticed; faded into the background of assumed safety. That’s how it should be,…
AOCDS has received numerous inquiries from our members and the media regarding the current status of the command of the Central Men’s Jail. The AOCDS Board of Directors met today and as a result issued this statement through AOCDS President Tom Dominguez: STATEMENT
AOCDS President Tom Dominguez issued the following member advisement on January 26, 2016 The Orange County Register published a front page article today with comments from a trial attorney with the Orange County District Attorney’s Office accusing the Sheriff’s Department of…
If deputies have a gripe about the boss, they can go ‘Yelp’ on them Union critiques of superiors at Sheriff’s Department and District Attorney’s Office will be anonymous and public. Not everyone is thrilled. BY SALVADOR HERNANDEZ / STAFF WRITER Hundreds…