A speaker seeking to address the Board of Supervisors Tuesday was forcibly ejected from the chamber by Riverside County sheriff’s deputies on the orders of a supervisor, who found his behavior objectionable.
The resident, who submitted only his first name — “Eddie” — on a board meeting speaker card, had signed up to address three separate policy agenda items, all related to sheriff’s operations, at the same time.
One item concerned a federal grant award for eradication of illicit cannabis grows, another was a single-source no-bid agreement with a company to provide deputies with a smart phone app, and the third was a memorandum of understanding on inter-departmental communications regarding subpoenas…