Sentence examples for an elected sheriff from inspiring English sources

Nearly every American county still has an elected sheriff.

Municipalities have police forces, and each county has an elected sheriff, who appoints deputies and has jurisdiction outside towns and cities.

("Senator, you're one of us," says Mr Babeu. But who, exactly, is "us"?) As an elected sheriff, I believe Mr Babeu would fall outside of the restrictions of the act if his office does not receive any federal funding (which seems unlikely).

DENVER (Reuters) - An elected sheriff from a rural county in Colorado has been arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting a developmentally disabled woman at his home before transporting her to jail, court documents showed on Wednesday.

Mr. Brown, a former DeKalb County police captain, was elected sheriff in an August runoff after an acrimonious campaign against the incumbent, Sheriff Sidney Dorsey.

In Elrod v. Burns, he represented Republican deputy sheriffs who had been fired when Richard Elrod, a Democrat, was elected sheriff of Cook County.

A few months later, though, after Carter was elected sheriff, an informant casually mentioned to one of his investigators that it was possible to buy drugs from gang members in the county.

"An honest man was elected Sheriff".

In 2016, Sally Hernandez, a political novice of Anglo descent, was elected sheriff of Travis County, having promoted Austin as a "sanctuary city".

As the elected sheriff, he ran a complex of jails where brutality had become systematic and where would-be whistle-blowers were threatened with retaliation.

Ms. Guadagno, elected sheriff in 2007, oversees an office with 695 employees and a $65 million budget that says it is the first accredited by the National Sheriffs Associationn in five areas: law enforcement, corrections, correctional health care, emergency dispatch and youth detention.