The man who spent August filming Clint Curtis's elections office is now suing him, and the county, to keep the 2024 ballots from being destroyed. The same week, a federal grand jury subpoenaed Curtis over the June primary. In open session, the board votes on a lease-termination letter for an address that was never in the lease, and on removing a planning commissioner for reasons that appear in the press but not in the packet.

Video and photographs obtained by North State Breakdown show federal agents in vests marked "POLICE ICE" and "ERO" walking a man to an unmarked pickup truck. The encounter comes amid a sharp rise in detentions at a Redding ICE facility that city officials have said they knew little about.

Tuesday's consent calendar carries the county's own written admission that Public Works broke the Clean Water Act, a Planning Commissioner removed with no explanation on the record at all, and a legal contract with no spending ceiling left on it. Four property owners owe the county $560,940 they haven't paid — and outside the meeting, both unions representing elections staff are lining up to tell the board they want Clint Curtis gone.

Tuesday's agenda carries the board's first attempt to censure an elected department head — who now says he'll sue the county if it does — plus a closed session on the lawsuit over a jail site the Sheriff walked away from six days earlier, the roughly $56 million suit against the DA that a judge just threw out, and a consent calendar where one vendor's campaign contribution sits four and a half months upstream of its $155,000 contract.

Tuesday's agenda looks like routine summer housekeeping — but a single opioid-funded college report opens onto the $4 million the county steered to two nonprofits run by the committee members who recommended it, and the accountability policy the board promised for July that never appeared.

Back in January 2025 the Board of Supervisors voted in an unannounced closed session to pay former Sheriff's Captain Pat Kropholler nearly $2.8 million to end his retaliation lawsuit — five months after the county's own investigator found most of his allegations not sustained.

Two charter measures voters rejected in 2024 get their final vote Tuesday — at the meeting certifying the election that unseated their sponsor, under brand-new public-comment time caps, with a $565,000 Axon contract riding consent.

Supervisors weigh a letter backing a contested state public-records bill and a new policy to auto-delete non-record county emails after a year, alongside a $7.5 million mental-health contract, an expanded CEO spending limit and the certification of James Gallagher's congressional win.

Supervisors take the first votes to send two rejected 2024 charter measures — on eminent domain and elected-office vacancies — back to the November ballot, adopt a $658 million budget and backfill $235,057 in victim services.

Tuesday's Shasta County agenda asks supervisors to revive two charter amendments voters rejected in 2024, advance an 18% nonprofit cost cap the county's own auditor and counsel won't endorse, and decide in closed session whether to defend Measure B against the state's lawsuit. A guide to what's on the table — and what's worth watching.

The Shasta County Board of Supervisors meets Monday with one of its most consequential agendas of the year: the formal opening of FY 2026-27 budget hearings that will run into next week, a vote on a first-of-its-kind artificial intelligence use policy, and a public hearing to rewrite the county's accessory dwelling unit code. The board will also consider a five-year, $6.2 million renewal with GEO Reentry Services — a subsidiary of one of the largest private prison and detention operators in t...

Tuesday's board meeting puts HHSA's budget crisis front and center: supervisors vote on a $10 million loan extension and consider furloughing hundreds of workers — on the same day they formally oppose the state bill that would require advance warning before mass layoffs.

A former Shasta County Sheriff and the county's own senior attorney were fired after refusing to participate in what their lawsuits describe as misconduct. A judge voided the casino deal at the center of the first case. A Fair Political Practices Commission investigation into Supervisor Kevin Crye remains open as the June 2 election approaches.

Kevin Crye's 2026 campaign ads make a series of claims about his record as Shasta County Supervisor. NSB fact-checked each one against the public record.

The censure is on hold, the agenda names Curtis in closed session, and four election-spending contracts await board approval. Here is what to watch at the May 5 meeting.

The Shasta County Board of Supervisors has called a special meeting for , Tuesday, April 28, at 9 a.m. at the County Administration Center, 1450 Court Street, Suite 263, Redding — with a single item on the regular calendar: voting on whether to formally censure County Clerk and Registrar of Voters Clint Curtis.

The Shasta County Board of Supervisors meets Tuesday with an agenda anchored by a $2.2 million agreement that would deploy opioid litigation settlement dollars as the critical matching funds needed to secure $17.8 million in state money for a new substance use disorder treatment facility — a deal that staff warns must be approved or the state funding disappears entirely. The board will also hold a legally required public forum on the county's cooperation with federal immigration agents last y...

The board will take up an amendment moving the new Mediko jail contract one month early, a labor deal settled after 9 months at impasse, a public hearing on a 350% sewer fee increase in Cottonwood, and a closed-session appointment to fill the Public Works director post.

Who’s funding the June 2026 Shasta County races — and what does it tell us about who would actually be in charge? An analysis of 16,159 transactions, a family spending $25,000 across eight committees, and an official running the very election he’s in.

The Shasta County Board of Supervisors meets Tuesday for its regular session, with a packed agenda that includes a $1.92 million opioid settlement funding request for a youth behavioral health campus in Anderson, a controversial board appointment to the county's Public Health Advisory Board, a public hearing on a contested solar energy project in the Battle Creek area, and a new round of appointments to the Assessment Appeals Board.

REDDING, Calif. — A Redding woman has filed a 172-page supplemental memorandum in Shasta County Superior Court today alleging that Measure B — the "Local Election Transparency and Security Reform" initiative set to appear on the June 2026 ballot — was improperly certified despite questions about whether its own statistical signature validation was conducted correctly.

A three-year, $25 million jail health contract sits on the consent calendar Tuesday alongside five Teamsters labor agreements, a school mental health program renewal and $742,000 in fiber optic infrastructure work ahead of the old courthouse demolition.