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

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 ...

A proposal to establish a commission to analyze whether Riverside County might benefit from having a standing oversight ...

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 ...

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.

United States, and the court ruled 5-4 in favor of the main plaintiff, a Montana sheriff named Jay Printz. The majority opinion was written by Justice Antonin Scalia.

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

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 ...