Pacific County is the latest in Southwest Washington to seize jail from sheriff

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Pacific County is the latest in Southwest Washington to seize jail from sheriff

The local jail in Pacific County, Washington, will no longer be run by the elected sheriff.County officials on Thursday agreed to start the process of creating a new jail services department. The new department will ultimately answer to the Board of Commissioners — not Sheriff Daniel Garcia.The commissioners said they had grown concerned about the jail as a legal risk, particularly after the county recently paid out millions of dollars to settle…