Hinrichs v. County of Orange

Opinion

BEDSWORTH, Acting P. J.

Beverly Hinrichs, an officer in the Orange County Sheriff’s Department (the Department), appeals from the denial of her petition for a writ of mandate challenging discipline imposed upon her by the Department. Hinrichs’s petition challenged, on both procedural and substantive grounds, the Department’s decision to issue a written reprimand to her for violation of its use-of-alcohol regulation. The trial court concluded Hinrichs’s substantive challenge to the discipline imposed was not ripe, as she was still in the process of exhausting her administrative appeals,…