{"id":59201,"date":"2025-11-18T21:45:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T21:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/59201\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T21:45:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T21:45:17","slug":"kern-county-sheriff-discusses-staffing-in-custody-deaths-and-jail-bed-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/59201\/","title":{"rendered":"Kern County Sheriff discusses staffing, in-custody deaths, and jail bed space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) \u2014 KCSO Sheriff Donny Youngblood stopped by 23ABC to discuss a variety of topics on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Senior Reporter Mike Hart asked the Sheriff about staffing, recent in-custody deaths, and jail bed space among other topics.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re on a positive climb. We went through a lot of people, we hired a lot of people, we&#8217;ve hired 400 people the last two years, but we&#8217;ve lost a lot of people&#8221; said Youngblood about staffing. &#8220;We&#8217;re kind of in a low spot right now, we&#8217;ve run out of qualified applicants.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Youngblood says they are currently re-testing and are trying to get people to come in who are qualified.<\/p>\n<p>The sheriff added that some candidates are disqualified due to drug use and the dishonesty about it. &#8220;They&#8217;ll lie about the drug use and then that catches up with them,&#8221; said Youngblood.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of Sheriff Youngblood&#8217;s answers can be found in the interview above.<\/p>\n<p>Stay in Touch with Us Anytime, Anywhere:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) \u2014 KCSO Sheriff Donny Youngblood stopped by 23ABC to discuss a variety of topics on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,155,153,152,36081,36082,14367,9623,162,2637,5577],"class_list":["post-59201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-downtown","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-donny-youngblood","tag-in-custody-deaths","tag-jail","tag-kcso","tag-kern-county-news","tag-sheriff","tag-staffing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}