PHOENIX — Maricopa County Recorder Justin Heap is asking a judge to stop an audit of the county’s election system after it was authorized by the Board of Supervisors. It’s the latest twist in an ...

PHOENIX – In a ruling issued Thursday, an Arizona judge rejected Maricopa County Recorder Justin Heap’s request to stop an election system audit authorized by the Board of Supervisors (BOS). Heap, a ...

A court-ordered audit found the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office spent millions by attributing unrelated expenses to a federal civil rights case. The audit revealed that over 70% of the $219 million ...

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — A court-ordered audit finds that Maricopa County has overstated its claims of federal oversight of its sheriff’s office, which the county claimed has cost taxpayers $350 million.

An audit found the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office misattributed $163 million in expenses to a racial profiling lawsuit. The report concluded that 72% of the $226 million claimed for lawsuit ...

The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office was handcuffed in its budgeting. Its spending growth each year was constrained by a formula outlined in the Arizona Constitution. But any expenses tied to ...