The County Board will select a Democratic successor after Sheriff Penzone steps down in January.
PHOENIX — There was a thread running through Maricopa County Sheriff Paul Penzone's surprising decision Monday to step down next January: The legacy of Joe Arpaio.
The monitor is still on the job. So is Snow, overseeing progress on putting the reforms in place, 16 years after the so-called Melendres case was filed.Every three months for the last nine years, the court-appointed monitor - a former police chief named Robert Warshaw - has issued reports grading the Sheriff's Office's progress on meeting court-ordered reforms.
"Looking at the way that it is now, with all of the tedious micromanaging, I'm starting to wonder if we really need the court monitor at this point," Guzman said in an interview Tuesday. Guzman said she was an early supporter of installing a monitor to look over Arpaio's shoulder.
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