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Vernon Stanforth sworn in as 80th president of National Sheriffs Association Sheriff Vernon Stanforth, left, is pictured being sworn in as president of the National Sheriffs Association. (Photo courtesy of the National Sheriffs Association) On Saturday, May 8, Sheriff Vernon Stanforth of the Fayette County (Ohio) Sheriff s Office was sworn in as the 80th president of the National Sheriffs Association.
Sheriff Stanforth assumed the role early due to the 2020-21 President, Sheriff David Mahoney, retiring from the Dane County Sheriff s Office to take a role in the private sector.
Why There Are So Many Bad Sheriffs
In a job with tons of power and practically no oversight from voters, law enforcement or politicians, corruption can be easy to get away with.
March 22, 2018 •
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No matter how tight the food budget, you can always find ways to cut corners. The state of Alabama sends counties a paltry $1.75 per day to feed each inmate locked up in jail, but sheriffs often manage to spend a good deal less than that. They have a strong incentive to do so. The sheriffs get to keep whatever they don’t spend, which in some cases has reached well into the six figures. Daily ration money adds up.
Orange County Sheriff Carl E. DuBois. Source: nysheriffs.org.
Orange County Sheriff Carl E. DuBois announced Wednesday, May 5, that he will not seek for a sixth term in 2022.
DuBois has served unprecedented five four-year terms, running unopposed since 2006. He is the longest serving sheriff in the history of Orange County and currently the fourth longest serving sheriff in New York State.
His promise to the voters in 2002 was to bring the Sheriff’s Office into the 21st Century which he and his staff have done. The office has achieved five accreditations, two from the New York State Sheriff’s Association and three national accreditations, receiving the Triple Crown Award in 2016 from the National Sheriff’s Association. Less than 100 Sheriff’s Offices out of 3000 nationwide have achieved this status, and since then have continued to maintain those accreditations with periodical audits.
May 6, 2021
FILE - In this Oct. 7, 2020, file photo, a video surveillance camera is installed on the ceiling above a subway platform in the Court Street station in the Brooklyn borough of New York. State lawmakers across the U.S. are reconsidering the tradeoffs of facial recognition technology amid civil rights and racial bias concerns. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)
COLUMBUS (AP) Law enforcement agencies across the U.S. have used facial recognition technology to solve homicides and bust human traffickers, but concern about its accuracy and the growing pervasiveness of video surveillance is leading some state lawmakers to hit the pause button.
The sheriffs in border communities deal with the fallout from the border surge, from increasing confrontations with smugglers to rising death tolls from migrants who struggle in rough terrain or lose their footing crossing the Rio Grande.
“Unfortunately, current border security policies have empowered the criminal cartels, human smugglers and traffickers in heroin, methamphetamines and fentanyl, while leaders in Washington, D.C., have remained ineffective at combating this enormous crisis hurting our border communities and briskly moving to the United States’ interior,” said Sheriff Mark Dannels of Cochise County in Arizona, who serves as chair of the NSA’s Border Security Committee.