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The Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office is a local law enforcement agency that serves Santa Clara County, California.It provides general-service law enforcement to unincorporated areas of Santa Clara County, as well as incorporated cities within the county that have contracted with the agency for law-enforcement services such as Saratoga, Cupertino, and Los Altos Hills.
According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, California had 509 law enforcement agencies employing 79,431 sworn peace officers, about 217 for each 100,000 residents. California peace officers' authority is derived from the California Penal Code (PC) beginning with Section 830.
Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority. VTA's old logo, which was used from December 1996 to January 2017. On January 1, 1995, the SCCTD merged with the county Congestion Management Agency to become the SCVTA. For convenience, the acronym was later shortened to VTA. In 1996, voters approved a half-cent general county sales tax, Measure B ...
A separate agency, established in 1993, is the Santa Clara Valley Open Space Authority (SCCOSA). While the jurisdiction of the SCCOSA lies entirely in Santa Clara County, it is not directly a part of county government. Parks Diablo Range in Ed R. Levin County Park Coyote Peak in Santa Teresa County Park Basin Falls in Uvas Canyon County Park
Since 2019, the number of domestic violence cases in Santa Clara County has increased from 76 cases to 184 cases per prosecutor. At the same time, the county is facing a $250 million deficit and ...
A jury this week convicted a former candidate for Santa Clara County Sheriff of felony perjury, for falsely certifying that she had the required experience to run for the elected law enforcement ...
As of Wednesday, three serious offers were already on the table; all over the $1,949,000 million asking price. "We are over two-and-a-half million people in Santa Clara County and right now there ...
February 28, 1985. Location. Santa Clara Transit Center (also called Santa Clara–University by Amtrak) is a railway station in downtown Santa Clara, California. It is served by Caltrain, Amtrak Capitol Corridor, and Altamont Corridor Express (ACE) trains. It is the planned terminus for the Silicon Valley BART extension into Santa Clara County ...