DOJ issues requests to California sheriffs for information on noncitizen inmates and release dates as part of Trump ...

Local law police departments and sheriff's offices across the country are being targeted by the Trump administration as ICE scrambles to meet its sky-high recruitment quotas, NBC News reported. "As it ...

National Sheriffs’ Association Executive Director and CEO Jonathan Thompson says “We’re seeing a very favorable outcome of ...

Despite decades of efforts to reform policing in the United States and the massive anti-brutality demonstrations of 2020, police officers continue to avoid prosecution for murder charges and ...

There are more than 3,000 sheriffs elected at the county level in the United States, each of whom has authority and autonomy to both set and enforce law enforcement policy. For example, sheriffs ...

The Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice announced that the Sheriff’s Department has completed all of its reform provisions.

Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna said that the U.S. Department of Justice has threatened him with potential federal ...

Adapted from The Power of the Badge: Sheriffs and Inequality in the United States by Emily M. Farris and Mirya R. Holman, which will be published in September by the University of Chicago Press.

A national group of sheriffs that claims the top law enforcers in American counties are not bound by federal law has successfully spread its doctrine to dozens of states in recent years.

Across the United States, sheriffs will ask voters for their support this fall to remain in office. In most counties, these elections are uncompetitive: Sheriffs usually run either unopposed or ...