Marin County hires first inspector general to oversee sheriff’s office, review complaints

by Ruth Dusseault, Bay City News May 5, 2026May 5, 2026

Last summer, Marin County selected and approved a nine-member Sheriff’s Office Civilian Oversight Commission, the first such citizen commission in its history. On Tuesday, the county announced another first — an inspector general to oversee investigations and support the work of the commission.

John Alden will serve as the county’s first inspector general, managing the community complaint process and conducting independent analysis of Marin County Sheriff’s Office policies and practices, among other duties.

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Ruth Dusseault, Bay City News

Ruth Dusseault is an investigative reporter and multimedia journalist focused on environment and energy. Her position is supported by the California local news fellowship, a statewide initiative spearheaded by UC Berkeley aimed at supporting local news platforms. While a student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism (c’23), Ruth developed stories about the social and environmental circumstances of contaminated watersheds around the Great Lakes, Mississippi River and Florida’s Lake Okeechobee. Her thesis explored rights of nature laws in small rural communities. She is a former assistant professor and artist in residence at Georgia Tech’s School of Architecture, and uses photography, film and digital storytelling to report on the engineered systems that undergird modern life.

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