My Goals as a new Geneva County Sheriff

I’ll pair accountability with opportunity. We’ll partner with local colleges and employers to deliver in-jail trade training (welding, HVAC, CDL, electrical) for people who qualify, then track post-release job placement and re-arrest rates. The goal is simple: fewer repeat crimes, more paychecks, and safer neighborhoods. 

 I will defend our Second Amendment rights and treat firearms ownership as the serious responsibility that it is. Through the Sheriff’s Office, I plan to offer practical firearms safety and marksmanship training for law-abiding citizens, church security teams, and local business owners, focused on safe handling, storage, and knowing when not to pull the trigger. We’ll work with certified instructors to provide classes on current Alabama laws, use-of-force, and situational awareness so that good people are better prepared, safer, and more confident. My goal is simple: protect your constitutional rights while making sure every gun owner in Geneva County has access to the knowledge and training, they need to keep themselves, their families, and their neighbors safe. 

Every school deserves a visible, trained presence from all areas of law enforcement. We’ll strengthen SRO coverage, standardize threat-assessment protocols, harden access points, and run joint drills with schools, police departments, fire/EMS, and 911. Parents will see clear communication plans and reunification procedures, because nothing matters more than our kids’ safety. They ARE this county's future. 

We’ll place staffed substations where call-volume and travel times are highest, align patrol zones to 911 data, and publish a monthly response-time dashboard. Target: cut average response times county-wide and ensure every community sees a deputy faster, day or night. 

We’ll partner with every church and house of worship, large or small, for practical, no-cost safety support. That includes voluntary security assessments, usher/greeter training (situational awareness, de-escalation, Stop the Bleed), clear Sunday traffic plans, and a dedicated deputy liaison for each congregation. We’ll coordinate with faith leaders on domestic-violence and child-safety reporting, help connect families to recovery and mental-health resources, and share a simple grant/technology guide for cameras and lighting. Metrics, assessments completed, volunteers trained, and response times during service hours, will be posted quarterly so congregations can see real results. 

We’ll expand Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) training for every deputy and pilot a co-responder model with mental-health professionals on high-need calls. The aim: de-escalate safely, connect people to care, and focus our jail on those who truly belong there. 

 We’ll launch a county sheriff mobile app to push urgent alerts, accept anonymous tips, offer non-emergency reporting, show jail & court info, sex-offender search, road closures, and community event updates, all in one place. We’ll publish monthly metrics (downloads, active users, tip closures, alert open-rates) and guard privacy with clear data-retention rules. This supplements 911, it doesn’t replace it. We’ll seek grant/commissary funding to minimize, or relive, any taxpayer impact. 

Professional policing starts with standards. We’ll require rigorous, scenario-based training, investigation training for ALL deputy's, strengthen field training for new deputies, and implement a transparent merit system for promotions, rooted in performance, testing, and service to the community. Good deputies will be rewarded; bad behavior will be corrected. 

We will stand up a Cold Case Review Team to re-examine evidence with fresh eyes and modern tools, DNA, ballistic networks, and digital forensics, while inviting new tips through a dedicated portal. Families who have waited too long deserve action, updates, and justice. 

Dealers and traffickers drive violence and theft. We’ll build a dedicated interdiction and intel unit, coordinate tightly with prosecutors, and pursue felony distribution cases to the fullest extent, while seizing criminal assets with "full" public accounting. The message is clear: if you poison our county, we will find you and we will lock you up. 

For people ready to change, we’ll provide a lane out: jail-based screening, medication-assisted treatment where appropriate, peer recovery coaches, and “warm handoffs” to local providers and drug court. Success is measured by fewer overdoses, fewer re-arrests, and more families made whole. 

We’ll launch age-appropriate education on fentanyl and pill dangers, host parent nights on warning signs and safe tech use, and support schools with up-to-date curricula. An anonymous tip line and quick referral pathways will help us intervene early, before a bad choice becomes a tragedy. 

Dead-zone mapping, tower coverage plan, CAD/GIS cleanup, and a published response-time dashboard. 

Clear release policy, audit logs, retention timelines. 

Protective-order enforcement, advocate partnerships, trauma-informed follow-up. 

Data-driven patrols, quarterly results. 

We’ll place substations where call-volume and travel times are highest, align patrol zones to 911 data, and publish a monthly response-time dashboard. Target: cut average response times county-wide and ensure every community sees a deputy faster, day or night. 

Hurricane/tornado shelter security, debris-traffic plans, reunification drills. 

Publish a simple, living “where the money goes” dashboard. 

Merit promotions, CIT training, peer support. 

Align with NCCHC-style best practices; medication continuity.