Complaint No. 1760565846 - 2122703902

Farzin A Wahab

San Mateo County Sheriff's Office

3121 Middlefield Road

Redwood City, California 94063

(650) 599-9186

https://www.smcsher…

Date of Offense

October 15, 2025

Complaint

Supporting Document(s)

Farzin discipline outcome letter_0.pdf

Statement

Officer Farzin Ahmad Wahab is not employed by the Sheriff’s Office.
He is employed by the San Mateo County Probation Department,
222 Paul Scannell Dr, San Mateo CA 94402.
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Officer Farzin Ahmad Wahab has demonstrated a consistent pattern of dishonesty, integrity violations, and breaches of confidentiality. He has been the subject of multiple investigations by his department for misconduct, including repeated violations of HIPAA and departmental confidentiality policies. Mr. Wahab was first investigated for using discourteous language against his partner back in 2023, resulting in disciplinary action (intent to reprimand), and for failing to self report police contact in a DV incident. A second investigation was initiated in 2025 following new reports of dishonesty and serious misconduct. The most recent complaint was submitted on March 21, 2025, and the investigation concluded with disciplinary action against Mr. Wahab. Attached is the official letter issued to the complainant upon completion of the investigation.

California Public Records Act

§ 6250-6268

The California Public Records Act is a series of laws meant to guarantee that the public has access to public records of governmental bodies in California. In December of 2011, a Superior Court judge ruled that the California Assembly must also disclose budget records of individual lawmakers, after some California newspapers filed a lawsuit accusing legislators of flouting the state’s open records laws.

Public records in the California Public Records Act are defined as “any writing containing information relating to the conduct of the public’s business prepared, owned, used, or retained by any state or local agency regardless of physical form or characteristics.” There is a separate category of “purely personal information” that, although it may be in the custody of a government agency, does not fall under the act. Statute 6255 states a catch all exemption, “The agency shall justify withholding any record by demonstrating that the record in question is exempt under express provisions of this chapter or that on the facts of the particular case the public interest served by not disclosing the record clearly outweighs the public interest served by disclosure of the record.”

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