Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office Correctional Officer Jenna Baldwin was arrested Oct. 4 and booked into the Main Jail on charges including sexual activity with an inmate, assault by a public officer and bringing contraband into a detention facility.
Baldwin, 35, had worked for the Sheriff’s Office since 2008 but is no longer employed by the agency, according to Ashley Keehn, public information officer for the Sheriff’s Office.
This is the second time in a month that a female correctional officer with the Sheriff’s Office was arrested on charges of sexual activity with an inmate.
On Sept. 4, Jessica Smith, 31, who had worked for the Sheriff’s Office since 2015, was arrested on that same charge. That case involved an individual serving a sentence on supervised release.
Smith was placed on administrative leave initially but is no longer employed by the Sheriff’s Office, Keehn said.
Santa Cruz County has about 110 corrections officers.
“After every significant incident we look at training and policy to see if or what can be added,” Keehn said.