PHOENIX – Maricopa County Sheriff Jerry Sheridan is questioning the accuracy of an audit that found his agency allegedly overreported the cost of court-ordered oversight in a long-running ...

A recent audit of the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office said it used court orders in a racial profiling case to go on a spending spree.

Maricopa County Recorder Justin Heap asked the court to stop the audit, but the judge said he hadn’t established that supervisors’ actions violated the law.

A Maricopa County judge rejected Recorder Justin Heap’s request to immediately block the Board of Supervisors from overseeing a third-party audit of the county’s voting systems.

The county claimed the auditor general failed to notice former Treasurer Elizabeth Gutfahr’s efforts to hide the alleged ...