to maintain their offices at the county seat with other county officers. Id. (citing Cal. Gov.Code § 24250). Sheriff vacancies are filled in the same manner as other elective county officers. Id. (citing Cal. Gov.Code § 24205). The services of the sheriff may be contracted out by the county — not the state. Id. (citing Cal. Gov.Code § 53069.8). We found that “[tjhese various state provisions lead inexorably to the conclusion that the [sheriff] is tied to the County in its political, administrative, and fiscal capacities.” Id. Finally, we examined California case law and concluded that the relevant cases further supported our holding that the county was liable for the sheriff’s actions. Id. at 562-63 (discussing Sullivan v. County of Los Angeles, 521 P.2d 865, 868-69 (Cal. 1974) (<HOLDING>), and Beck v. County of Santa Clara, 204
holding that the county was liable for the sheriffs failure to release a prisoner who had completed a sentence holding that the grant county prosecutor had a statutory duty to be legal advisor to the county clerk even though she was not embroiled in litigation in which the county was the real party in interest holding that due process clause does not require a federal prisoner to receive credit for time spent on supervised release if release is revoked holding that a release between two parties cannot bind a thirdparty who was a stranger to the release holding substantive reasonableness sentencing challenge to be moot when defendant had completed prison sentence but addressing challenge to supervised release conditions