A special meeting was called after a recent KTVU investigation revealed Santa Clara County is the only county in the Bay Area to use tear gas in its jails.
revealed Santa Clara County is the only county in the Bay Area to use tear gas in its jails.
Co-chair Walter Wilson told the supervisors at their last meeting in late August that his committee was led to believe that the tear gas would only be used for riot-type situations in the jail. "This is alarming to us, this is an eye-opener," Wilson told the supervisors. "The community should have a right to weigh in on this. This is a very different scenario than we were led to believe." Santa Clara County uses tear gas in its jails, the only Bay Area facility to do so, a KTVU investigation has found. Its use has halted further purchases of more military equipment.
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