The Orange County Sheriff's Department and district attorney's office have reached an agreement with federal officials over their illegal use of informants in county jails, a scandal that upended the justice system in the Southern California county.

The Orange County Sheriff’s Department has reached an agreement with the U.S. Justice Department to end a years-long investigation into the systemic misuse of jailhouse informants, federal authorities announced on Friday,

A few days after reaching an agreement with the Orange County District Attorney’s Office, the U.S. Department of Justice Friday reached a similar accord with the Orange County Sheriff’s Department related to the use of jailhouse informants.