Hubbard released from jail

After serving just about four days of a two-month sentence, former Newport-Mesa Unified Supt. Jeffrey Hubbard was released Monday.

Hubbard, 55, was sentenced to 60 days in jail Thursday and immediately taken into custody.

He was released at 6:21 a.m. Monday, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Inmate Information Center.

It was initially unclear how much time Hubbard would serve in jail because of overcrowding, but Judge Stephen A. Marcus said Thursday that he believed Hubbard would be released by Monday or Tuesday this week.

Hubbard received one day’s credit for time served for the day he was initially booked.

Hubbard was convicted in January of two felony charges of misappropriation of public funds, and ordered to pay $23,500 to the Beverly Hills Unified School District and $6,000 in court fines.

He had used his former position as Beverly Hills schools chief — the job he held before coming to Newport-Mesa Unified — to illegally enrich a subordinate, a Los Angeles County Superior Court jury found.

He was acquitted of a third charge.

The day after his conviction, Hubbard was fired from his job as superintendent by the Newport-Mesa Unified school board, although some members wrote the court asking for leniency in his sentencing.

— Lauren Williams

Twitter: @lawilliams30