Sheriff Election — San Mateo County, California
San Mateo County, California, Sheriff · the arena · Redwood City hires this desk in 2028 · not the 2026 Governor · Sacramento remains the capital · Daly City PD remains a city badge
The 2028 oval in San Mateo — not the 2026 Governor, not San Francisco
This page is the arena for this office. Unique teaching for the job lives on the office twin. The county as a place is taught at San Mateo County, California.
It is not a campaign. Names belong on the official sample ballot. No crown.
This Sheriff is not on the 2026 ballot. California moved sheriff and district attorney to the presidential table. The Governor is 2026. That is a different desk in Sacramento. The Coroner in this county is 2026. That is a different desk, not this oval.
San Mateo hires a Sheriff who still holds Maguire and Maple Street
Elections Code § 1300 (AB 759, 2022): sheriff and district attorney with the presidential primary. A 2022 winner serves six years.
- Last regular: Tuesday, 7 June 2022.
- Next regular: the 2028 presidential primary. If no majority under §§ 8140–8141, runoff at the presidential general. Confirm the live 2028 date on the California SOS elections calendar and smcacre.gov.
- Take office: noon on the first Monday after January 1 succeeding election (Gov. Code § 24200). For 2028 that is Monday, 8 January 2029.
- Vacancy: Board of Supervisors appointment (Gov. Code § 25304). This charter county has used that appointment path. Confirm the Sheriff of record on smcsheriff.com and smcacre.gov county offices. Confirm live charter text on smcgov.org. Do not invent a 2026 sheriff oval here.
The Governor is 2026. That is not this oval. Five Supervisors sit — not this oval. A Golden Gate rumor does not hire this badge. San Francisco County is a different county. Santa Clara County is a different county. Redwood City is the seat. Sacramento is the capital.
ACRE elections work sits in this county — not Redwood City Hall as this clerk
Elections work for San Mateo County lists with the Assessor-County Clerk-Recorder & Elections (ACRE). That is county elections work — not Redwood City Hall as this clerk, not Daly City Hall, not the City of San Mateo clerk as this registrar. Confirm registration, sample ballot, and vote-by-mail on sos.ca.gov, voterstatus.sos.ca.gov, and smcacre.gov. ACRE lists 555 County Center, First Floor, Redwood City and a Registration & Elections door at 40 Tower Road, San Mateo. Confirm hours on the live site before you travel.
Sample ballot in San Mateo County — not San Francisco as this county
Do not take names from a San Francisco rumor, a Daly City municipal card, a City of San Mateo flyer, or a Sacramento statewide card as this oval.
- Official candidate list / sample ballot — California Secretary of State and San Mateo County ACRE
- San Mateo County elections
- Current Sheriff of record — official listing at the Sheriff’s door and ACRE county-offices list
If a site and the official sample ballot disagree, the sample ballot wins. Do not invent a 2026 sheriff oval here. The Coroner and several other county desks sit on the 2026 gubernatorial table in this county — that is not this Sheriff.
What you are hiring — Peninsula remainder patrol and two jails this Sheriff still holds
You are hiring the Sheriff of San Mateo County, California — unincorporated patrol; Coastside, Headquarters, Millbrae, San Carlos, Half Moon Bay, Portola Valley, Woodside, and Eichler Highlands work the office actually posts; Transit Police Bureau work for SamTrans and Caltrain property the office lists; warrants; civil process at 330 Bradford; courthouse security at 400 County Center and the branches; and Maguire at 300 Bradford and Maple Street at 1300 Maple. You are not hiring Daly City Police. You are not hiring South San Francisco Police. You are not hiring the City of San Mateo Police. You are not hiring Redwood City Police. You are not hiring San Francisco County. You are not hiring the Governor. You are not hiring the Coroner.
Read the office page for 330 Bradford as this headquarters, Maguire and Maple as this jailer, Redwood City as the seat not the capital, city PDs as not this oval, and Autauga-with-a-bridge as not this rewrite.
Politics on this page is the hire: who the people put over Maguire, Maple Street, the Coastside remainder, and the civil papers. It is not who to vote for. Education is how a voter learns that six-year bridge and that 2028 table. Intelligence is the calendar ACRE actually posts, not a rumor from the next county.
Remedy when a writ misses unincorporated remainder
A bad service — this Sheriff’s Civil Enforcement Bureau at 330 Bradford, Professional Standards at (650) 363-4395, complaints at (650) 363-4692, and the courts. Five Supervisors are not the internal-affairs substitute for a paper. Not a comment section. Not Daly City PD. Not San Francisco as this oval.
Relief when 101 floods or Highway 1 closes
Fog and a closure on Highway 1, a wreck on 101, wind on 92, fire above Skyline, a night road outside La Honda — this county’s mutual aid first. San Francisco is a different count. Santa Clara is a different count. Redwood City hall is a different government. SFO is not this dispatch.
Service — papers at 330 Bradford, a 400 County Center docket, a night shift toward Maguire
Papers. A Hall of Justice courtroom. Night hours the office actually posts. Maguire and Maple Street remain this badge. Redwood City PD does not. You are hiring the person who still holds those two jails, not a city chief, not a bridge postcard.
Due process does not wait for a Golden Gate rumor
A levy in unincorporated San Mateo County still needs notice. A booking at Maguire still needs a clock. The Constitution does not pause because a visitor photographed a bridge, or because a visitor photographed Redwood City as if it were San Francisco.
Rights from the Daly City line to the Santa Clara line
Equal protection on the Peninsula map. Counsel. Property. Humane custody at Maguire and Maple Street. A worker at 1300 Maple and a family in unincorporated Pescadero hire the same Sheriff. SFPD is a different badge. Santa Clara is a different county.