Behind the Badge
First female deputies to graduate from OC Sheriff’s Academy take tour of regional Tustin facility
0The half-dozen women slowly made their way through the main hallway inside the Orange County Sheriff’s Department Regional Training Academy. Both walls in the 52,000-square-foot facility in Tustin are lined with plaques listing the names and pictures of all the graduating classes from the academy, beginning with Class No. 1 in 1965. On Nov. 4, 2019, Class 240 starts. Five of the women who toured the facility Oct. 22 – Barbara Scott Hall, Carole Carpenter, Laurie Tayco, Carol Nease, and Linda Paul — were members of Class 7 in 1968, among the 18 first female deputies to graduate from the…
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