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Michigan’s Oakland County Sheriff Mike Bouchard said Friday if the school had included resource officers in meetings with parents over concerns of violence, his office would have taken action to be sure the alleged Oxford High School shooter had no access to guns.

Utah’s 29 sheriffs signed a statement pledging to protect Second Amendment rights from federal gun controls.

The North Carolina Sheriff’s Association made clear Tuesday that they support the Republican-led push to do away with the state’s pistol permit requirement.

Mark Dannels, the Sheriff of Cochise County, Arizona, said on Wednesday that Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is not keeping his promise to meet weekly with law enforcement who are dealing with a surge of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico Border.

An unnamed Sacramento sherriff’s deputy and a K9 officer were slain on Monday night in a shooting on the Cal Expo grounds.

Columbia County, Florida, Sheriff Mark Hunter praised a Lake City homeowner who shot an alleged armed intruder Saturday night in order to protect himself and his children.

An Ohio sheriff is responding to the election-time trend of celebrities threatening to leave the U.S. if their desired candidate does not win the election.

A biological man who describes himself as a “transsexual Satanist anarchist” and whose campaign slogan running for sheriff in Cheshire County, New Hampshire, was “f—k the police” has won the Republican nomination for that post.

The two Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies shot Saturday night are out of surgery and are expected to survive.

Vanderburgh County Sheriff Dave Wedding announced Thursday that he had changed his party affiliation from Democrat to Republican in Evansville, Indiana.

Butler County, Ohio, Sheriff Richard Jones warned would-be police attackers Wednesday his deputies will shoot back if they come under firearm-based assault.

Marion County, Florida, Sheriff Billy Woods has ordered his deputies not wear masks while on duty or while working “special details and/or any special events.”

Pasco County Sheriff Chris Nocco said a homeowner who shot and killed 55-year-old Ronald Fleet Saturday afternoon was “utilizing” his Second Amendment right.

Clay County Florida Sheriff Darryl Daniels warned would-be rioters that if they come to his county they will get the brunt force of his sheriff’s department and if they continue he will deputize every “lawful gun owner” in this county to shut riots down.

A California town in the state’s Central Valley voted to be a “sanctuary city,” free from the coronavirus lockdown and is now reopened.

The sheriff’s office of Pennsylvania’s Cumberland County said on Friday that it will not enforce Gov. Tom Wolf’s (D) shutdown orders, vowing to continue to “honor our solemn oath to Support, Obey and Defend the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of this Commonwealth.”

Four Michigan county sheriffs said in a letter on Wednesday that they will not strictly enforce Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s (D) aggressive stay-at-home orders, emphasizing their oath to “uphold and defend the Michigan Constitution, as well as the U.S. Constitution, and to ensure that your God-given rights are not violated.”

A home intrusion suspect pretending to be with the sheriff’s department entered a Lindsay, California, home Tuesday night and was shot dead by the homeowner. 

The Secret Service opened fire Friday morning as a 30-year-old woman allegedly breached security with a vehicle at President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago and refused to stop.

A Lowndes County Sheriff was shot and killed in the line of duty Saturday night in Hayneville, Alabama. 

Amelia County, Virginia, Sheriff Ricky L. Walker is making clear he will not enforce unconstitutional gun laws even if ordered to by a judge.

A disabled veteran was found trying to walk 90 miles from Jasper, Alabama, to a doctor’s appointment in Huntsville Wednesday morning. 

The Mendocino County Sheriff’s Department has released dashcam footage of the heart-pounding moment when a suspect allegedly fired his gun at deputies on October 10.

A recently released convict has been arrested for allegedly raping an Amish woman in Indiana, reports said. 

Joe Arpaio announced Sunday that he is seeking a seventh term as sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona, promising to re-open his “tent-city” jail and bring back tough-on-crime policies.

California’s Shasta County Sheriff’s Office says a man shot his own brother in self-defense Wednesday.

Sheriffs in rural Washington state are reportedly refusing to enforce the gun controls contained in an initiative passed by voters in November 2018.

Democrats and their left-wing allies blasted Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Monday for making reference to the “Anglo-American” legal tradition, which they construed as racist.

The FBI’s Las Vegas division special agent in charge, Aaron Rouse, told reporters at a Friday briefing that the agency is teaming up with local law enforcement to launch an information-seeking campaign in the investigation into the mass shooting that occurred last Sunday.

NBA all-star Shaquille O’Neal announced his plans to run for sheriff in 2020 as he discussed his potential political ambitions in an interview Friday.

The fight for a Florida county sheriff’s office heads to court this week as the Republican candidate is set to present evidence that dozens of dead, felon, and otherwise ineligible voters potentially cost him an election decided by 16 ballots.

A little girl from Georgia is paying tribute to her late father for her third birthday this year.

A Baton Rouge, Louisiana area sheriff rescued a family — including an infant — from their home during the widespread flooding across the state while officials are now saying over 20,000 residents have been rescued in the crisis.

Elected leaders of the city that harbored an illegal alien-turned-killer last year are voting Tuesday on whether to pass an ordinance that would make San Francisco an even more hospitable sanctuary city for illegally present foreign nationals.

San Francisco’s former sanctuary city sheriff has been replaced, and Sheriff Vicki Hennessy is already moving to re-establish communications between federal immigration officials and deputies at the city jail.

A Georgia Sheriff is defending the controversial sign he posted outside his Harris County offices warning people that if they don’t like traditional phrases such as “Merry Christmas” or “In god We Trust,” then they should leave the county.