The Teton County Sheriff is the chief law enforcement officer of our county, elected to a four-year term. The job consists of preserving the peace, managing the county jail, providing security for courts, and serving legal documents. The Sheriff is paid a salary of $145,000 per year, increasing to $153,700 in January 2027. Benefits for full-time Teton County employees include comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance, paid time off, life insurance, and retirement through the Wyoming Retirement System.
Campaign Phone
(307)413-1989
I am running for another term as Sheriff because experienced, steady leadership matters. I have spent more than 25 years serving the people of Teton County in nearly every division of the Sheriff's Office, including patrol, investigations, detention, search and rescue, and school safety. Teton County is my home, and I have built relationships throughout this community based on integrity, professionalism, and accountability. I understand our challenges, know our community's values, and remain committed to leading an agency that protects our citizens while earning their trust every day.
Strong public safety depends on strong partnerships. The Sheriff's Office and the Jackson Police Department already work closely together, and I will continue building those relationships through communication, mutual respect, joint training, and coordinated responses. We all share the same mission of protecting our community. My focus is on supporting collaboration, solving problems together, and ensuring our agencies work as one team when serving the people of Teton County.
Community trust is built through relationships. I believe the Sheriff's Office should be visible, accessible, and engaged long before an emergency occurs. I will continue supporting school resource officers, attending community events, partnering with local organizations, and listening to residents' concerns. Whether addressing school safety, substance abuse, or neighborhood issues, I believe the best outcomes come from working together. Our deputies are members of this community, and maintaining that connection is essential to effective law enforcement.
The Teton County Sheriff's Office does not conduct mass surveillance, nor do I support collecting personal information on law-abiding citizens without a lawful purpose. Any information collected should be directly related to a legitimate criminal investigation and done in accordance with the Constitution and applicable laws. Technology is an important investigative tool, but protecting individual privacy and civil liberties is equally important. My commitment is to use technology responsibly while safeguarding the rights of the people we serve.
The Sheriff's Office will continue to follow all applicable federal and Wyoming laws while remaining focused on our primary responsibility—keeping Teton County safe. We are not an immigration enforcement agency. If presented with a valid judicial warrant or when required by law, we will cooperate with ICE to the extent of notifying them on the arrest of any foreign national to help determine their identity. At the same time, I want every member of our community to feel safe reporting crimes and working with law enforcement. Public safety depends on trust, and my goal is to maintain both public safety and public confidence.
Campaign Phone
937-751-3530
I am a community organizer, activist, and co-founder of the JH Action Coalition. We are a collection of volunteers, protest groups, and non-profits seeking a more just and humane world. Working together with unified voices and shared resources we are greater than just the sum of our parts. In my capacity as co-founder I took the first steps in bringing these groups together and providing the initial egalitarian, grassroots framework for our coalition. I sought out representatives of different organizations who had significant influence and technical experience and have helped guide our overall strategies. This is my intention for the Sheriff's department as well. Ensuring their professional experience aligns with community values.
I am looking forward to continued conversation between myself and local police forces. Even though I have been critical and have positioned myself as an outsider amongst them. I believe it necessary to continue striving for dialogue no matter how difficult it may be for either side. My goal is not to alienate, but to share and address their concerns as well. Regardles of who wins it is imperative that communication between the Sheriff's department and the coalition not break down. To that end I would like to continue meeting them as individuals and finding common ground. It doesn't mean that we have to fully agree on every subject, and I have no intention of ending my fight for immigrant rights, but mutual understanding benefits us all.
I will continue my work with the JH Action Coalition as we adapt to ever changing political conditions to secure the rights and freedoms of vulnerable communities. I will not stifle or reject community concerns, but be willing to change my policies based on new information and changing circumstances. As the federal government amasses increasing authoritarian power it is important to recognize that the needs of our community will change, and that continuing to lead based on yesterday's principles will allow those in power who wish to do harm the opportunity to do so unimpeded. Its is a goal of mine to not speak directly for our impacted community members, but to shield them when they choose to speak for themselves.
Mass surveillance systems like flock cameras are a danger to our society at large. The continual tracking is both a violation of our privacy and an assumption that the likelihood of anyone of us committing a violent crime is not a question of if, but when. It is an inherent distrust displayed by those we have elected to lead us, that we are incapable of our own self governance. There is no contract that is secure enough to protect us from the abuse of these cameras by the federal government. Regardless of what may be in the contract involving the rights to this data, flock and anyone who contracts with them must comply when ordered to do so by a federal court. Better to remove the cameras than remove our neighbors.
The only coordination authorized would be the barest minimum required by law. Teton County doesn't have to facilitate the removal our family, friends, and neighbors. ICE can waste its own resources on fruitlessly scapegoating those who don't deserve it. It is my opinion that ICE is a hate group that has been deputized by an administration intent on ethnically cleansing the United States. Any silence or attempt at neutrality is explicit permission for them to continue. The president wielding a paramilitary force to squash dissent within our borders is an appalling an un-American act that we all need to take steps to counteract unless we would see the very foundations of our democracy crumble.
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