Shasta County, CA — On Saturday, June 6, 2026, the Shasta County Board of Supervisors held a special meeting featuring a closed session on vaguely worded “anticipated litigation.” The public soon learned the item stemmed from a June 4 incident at the Elections Department, possibly triggered by insubordinate conduct by one supervisory employee. Clerk/Registrar Clint Curtis had reportedly been trying to obtain needed information from that employee to complete critical reconcili

Equal Justice or Does Something Smell Fishy? OPINION If a personnel department is doing its job properly, I would think that any employee complaints would be investigated, that bad behavior would be noted, and that offending employees would be warned. Since January, sources inside the Election Office have indicated that complaints were made about entrenched employees’ harassment of new employees and insubordination toward Clint Curtis, the new Registrar of Voters, and it

Supervisor Crye Reveals He Must Have Surgery to Have a Tumor Removed and Supervisor Kelstrom is Elected as Chair for the Board Next Year Clint Curtis, Registrar of Voters (ROV) presented the November 4, 2025, Special Election results to the Board, stating that turnout for the election was approximately 65,000 voters, which was higher than expected since it was not a major election. General elections usually see 95,000 voters participating