And Why the Way It Happened Is Now Under Fire Imagine quitting your job one day, starting to collect a big retirement check the next, then getting right back into the same office with your full salary on top. Sounds like a sweet deal, right? That’s exactly what Shasta County Sheriff Michael Johnson did in early 2022 — and it’s all perfectly allowed under California law. But the how of it has former Supervisor Patrick Jones sounding alarms about secret shortcuts and broken rul