Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith appears at a news conference on Aug. 17, 2021. The Sheriff's Office is under state investigation for misconduct at its jails and alleged civil rights violations. (Photo by Jana Kadah/Bay City News)

An investigation into a 2018 case of a man who severely injured himself while being transported between jails in Santa Clara County may have been closed prematurely to protect officials in the county sheriff’s office, according to a report by the county’s law enforcement oversight group.

The report by the Office of Correction and Law Enforcement Monitoring concerns the treatment by Santa Clara County Sheriff’s deputies of Andrew Hogan, who repeatedly struck his head against the wall of a van that was being used to transport him from the Elmwood jail in Milpitas to the county’s Main Jail in San Jose in August of 2018.

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Eli covers public health, transportation and state politics for the Bay City News Foundation, serves as the main editor of the Public Health and COVID-19 Information Hub and assists with Local News Matters' social media strategy. He has also previously covered local politics in San Diego County as well as college and professional sports across the Bay Area.