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The Alachua County Sheriff's Office announced via social media on June 2 that four of its K-9s have officially retired.
More than a dozen employees at the Alachua County Sheriff’s Office have submitted resignations over the past two months in what appears to be the latest round of a mass exodus of longtime members.
The Alachua County Sheriff’s Office decided Oct. 1 to allot inmates two free 10-minute phone calls each day with at least a 15-minute break in between calls, rather than going forward with the ...
Operation Bluebird, a program the Alachua County Sheriff's Office initiates every school year to educate and enforce school bus safety laws, begins the week of Oct. 20. Seventy citations were ...
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) -Alachua County Sheriff’s Office employees will receive a raise, raising the starting salary for deputies and detention officers to $55,000. This increase is part of a ...
Editor's note: This story has been updated to include information from Sheriff Emery Gainey, FDLE and the State Attorney's Office for the Third Judicial Circuit. The Alachua County Sheriff's ...
He has previously served as Marion County Sheriff and chief of staff for the Florida Attorney General’s Office. He also used to be a chief deputy at the Alachua County Sheriff’s Office ...
A new update from the Alachua County Sheriff’s Office shows the county is still severely understaffed with over 100 vacant positions showing little progress has been made since the issue was ...
Col. Chad Dondrill Scott, who rejoined the Alachua County Sheriff's Office in 2022, has filed to run for sheriff with the hope of succeeding his current boss, Sheriff Clovis Watson Jr. who ...
Alachua County Commissioner Robert Hutchinson wants the sheriff's office to begin issuing citations to marijuana suspects instead of arresting them. The full commission voted unanimously in favor ...
Alachua County Sheriff’s deputies responded to a shooting threat at Newberry High School (NHS) on Monday morning that turned ...