The Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office is facing a review of its overtime policies after it again exceeded its annual budget, this time to the amount of $4.4 million.
The audit was discussed on Tuesday during a fourth-quarter budget presentation to the county Board of Supervisors.
After years of rising overtime costs at the county’s jails caused by staffing shortages, a review of the Sheriff’s Office’s time card practices will be conducted by the county’s Auditor-Controller’s Office…