Orange County Supervisors are once again looking for a new leader of their internal law enforcement watchdog after outgoing director Robert Faigin quietly departed earlier this month.
He’s the second director in six years to leave the Office of Independent Review, one of the county’s smallest departments tasked with overseeing the OC Sheriff’s Department, District Attorney, the Probation Department, Social Services Agency (SSA), and the Public Defender.
While the office was founded in 2008, it has largely been catatonic for most of its history amid repeated debates by county leaders throughout the past decade on whether it should exist at all…