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.