The longtime Jackson police officer retired as a lieutenant in 2017. He is taking over for Elmer Hitt, who is retiring this ...

Fewer deputies, longer response times and nights with just one sheriff’s vehicle patrolling much of Jackson County. This is a ...

As part of his plea, he agreed to relinquish his MCOLES certification making him now ineligible to be a police officer ...

Undersheriff Christopher Simpson said the decision was made after a tax millage that would have brought more funding to the department failed ...

Former County Sheriff's Sergeant Ronald Leggitt has been sentenced to seven days in jail and two years' probation for assaulting an inmate.

With President Donald Trump’s administration cracking down on illegal immigration, Jackson County’s stance on providing assistance to federal agencies remains unchanged, but hosting detainees is ...

Organizers for the biggest country music festival in southeast Michigan announced the event has been canceled for 2025. Here ...

Leggitt has also permanently relinquished his Michigan Commission on Law Enforcement Standards (MCOLES) certification, a ...

Jackson County Sheriff, Gary Schuette, explains how the Sheriff's Department is navigating hundreds of thousands of dollars ...

The Trump administration is counting on the nation’s sheriffs to assist in enforcing its immigration policies, but holding ...

Jackson, Oakland, Shiawassee, Washtenaw and Wayne. The hate crime data, Nakagiri said, was collected in 2020 from the Michigan Incident Crime Report. He said county-level information came from a ...