As chief law enforcement officers, sheriffs shape how laws around immigration, guns, health and much else play out at the ...

The sheriffs’ group is directly associated with Trump’s ... She distanced herself from Trump, citing his “mental place” and ...

From immigration enforcement to abortion access, sheriffs wield a surprising amount of power in their jurisdictions.

Author Jessica Pishko probes the beliefs and actions of the hard right constitutional sheriffs movement, whose members say ...

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 ...

Rural Missouri sheriffs are trying to grab money from people in court systems, most of them from St. Louis and Kansas City.

So "The Power of the Badge: Sheriffs and Inequality in the United States," a new book by political scientists Emily M. Farris and Mirya R. Holman, is long overdue. It begins with a historical ...

Missouri voters will decide in November whether to reinstate a $3 court fee to help fund retirement benefits for county ...

In 2011, three years after the election of the first Black president of the United States, Mack founded a group called the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association (CSPOA), the ...

Trump has vowed to launch a mass operation that could involve a force larger than the U.S. Army—and he promises that it will ...

Many Americans will find on their November ballot a space to vote for an important office: local sheriff. While there are ...