The sheriff shall preserve peace, and to accomplish this object may sponsor, supervise, or participate in any project of crime prevention, rehabilitation of persons previously convicted of crime, or the suppression of delinquency.
Cal. Gov. Code § 26600
Duties
Applied in 11 court decisions — leading case 43 Cal. 3d 1321 - Ingersoll v. Palmer (1987)
Most recently applied in 141 Cal. App. 4th 237 - BOUGERE v. County of Los Angeles (July 2006)
Added by Stats. 1947, Ch. 424.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.