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ACCOMPLISHMENTS

SAFETY

  • Improved relationships and collaboration with local police departments.

  • Put more deputies in our schools to keep our kids safe.

  • Provided funds to a dozen local police departments to buy new cruisers.

  • Created a Gun Violence Unit to assist the Akron Police Department.

  • Rebuilt the K-9 Unit and established a Drone Unit and Dive & Water Rescue Team.

  • Developed the first Fugitive Safe Surrender event in a decade.

  • Re-established a full-time Warrant Unit for the first time in two decades.

  • Collaborated with multiple agencies to develop a new state-of-the-art dispatch center

PROFESSIONALISM

  • Significantly increased annual training hours, putting our deputies far ahead of state standards.

  • Overhauled our promotions process to be more fair, transparent, and merit-based.

  • Partnered with the Safety Forces Support Center to offer care and counseling to deputies if needed.

  • Developed a safer, faster, more cost-effective livestream video method for inmate court hearings.

  • Adding bulletproof glass to patrol cruisers to keep deputies safe.

INNOVATION

  • Launched the Sheriff’s Office mobile app, and a web-based CCW application system.

  • Developed new recruitment techniques to reach more women, minorities, and new citizens.

  • Pioneered a new approach of adopting rescue dogs and training them to become K-9s.

  • Provided tablets to inmates to earn training and education and halt the flow of mail-in contraband.

  • Invited labor unions into the jail to train inmates, and introduced a culinary training program.

  • Introduced caseworkers to the jail to help inmates with mental health and addiction issues.

  • Opened a facility for newly released homeless inmates to continue psych and addiction treatment.

  • Brought in more diverse religious ministries to the jail.

COMMUNITY

  • Greatly expanded community policing and outreach efforts.

  • Hired the most diverse pool of new employees of any Sheriff in history.

  • Provided the lead investigator in the First Energy bribery scandal, resulting in several arrests.

  • Developed the CCW Workshop program to educate residents on changes to concealed carry laws.

  • Eliminated financial barriers to the Sheriff’s Office Academy by paying cadets a living wage.

  • Brought the Faith & Blue initiative to our county to bring police and the community closer together.

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