There are 22 article(s) tagged Shelby County Sheriff:

• April 2025

  • ‘First Eight’ prekindergarten program expansion clears County Commission

    The Shelby County Commission approved unanimously an expansion of universal prekindergarten services.

    By Bill Dries April 14, 2025

  • County Commission takes final votes on pay raise for next commission

    The commission also takes a second reading vote Monday on a pay raise for the next Shelby County Sheriff. Final action on a pair of ethics ordinances has been delayed to next month.

    By Bill Dries April 13, 2025

• February 2025

  • County Commission moves forward on sheriff’s pay raise, but not its own

    County commissioners are considering a raise for the whoever is elected Shelby County sheriff in 2026. Meanwhile, a proposal to give the next group of commissioners a pay raise was withdrawn.

    By Bill Dries February 24, 2025

  • Another death at 201 Poplar brings number to at least 55 since 2019

    The latest incident began Thursday when jailers found an inmate unresponsive after experiencing a “medical emergency,” according to the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office. The inmate was taken to Methodist University Hospital and died Friday afternoon.

    By Jody Callahan February 01, 2025

• November 2023

  • Chief jailer seeks to dismiss himself from Gershun Freeman civil suit

    One of the defendants in the civil wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of an inmate who died last year at the Shelby County Jail has filed to dismiss himself from the suit.

    By Aarron Fleming November 10, 2023

• November 2021

  • County Commission takes first of 3 votes on pay raise for mayor and sheriff

    The commission also votes Monday, Nov. 15, on $10.8 million in indirect federal American Rescue Plan Act funding delayed when the commission approved a budget for using most but not all of the federal funding.

    By Bill Dries November 15, 2021

• February 2021

  • Collierville police nab resources including a drone, mobile command units

    Collierville Police Department has added tools in recent months, including a drone bought with CARES Act funds, motorcycles and two mobile command centers inherited from the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office.

    By Abigail Warren February 08, 2021

• September 2019

  • Plans to put security cameras everywhere in Shelby County still a work in progress

    With the funding in place to put security cameras in every Shelby County Commission district, officials are still trying to figure out how to do it.

    By Linda A. Moore September 19, 2019

  • Shelby County Commission moves SCSO human resources back to sheriff’s office

    The Shelby County Commission Monday approved a resolution that moves human resources personnel in the sheriff's office away from the county administration's purview and back to the sheriff's office's HR department.

    By Linda A. Moore September 09, 2019

• August 2019

  • Pay for county’s private security guards under scrutiny

    Shelby County government can't require contracted security company Clarion Security to pay its employees a $15 an hour minimum, but it can in the future ask how much companies pay their workers before they're hired.

    By Linda A. Moore August 26, 2019

  • County Commission committee discusses SkyCops countywide

    The Shelby County Commission approved $1.6 million for SkyCops cameras to help with crime prevention in all 13 commission districts, but the details will take time to work out.

    By Linda A. Moore August 08, 2019

• July 2019

  • Former Mayor Morris was ‘well ahead of his time,’ Harris says

    Bill Morris signed his autobiography and told stories at an event hosted by current county Mayor Lee Harris.

    By Linda A. Moore July 24, 2019

  • Tennessee troopers join forces with Memphis, Shelby County to combat road rage shootings

    The Tennessee Highway Patrol will send 30 troopers to Memphis to help local law enforcement deal with interstate and road rage shootings in the city. To date, there have been 32 shootings and one man was killed. 

    By Yolanda Jones July 17, 2019

• June 2019

  • Shelby County Sheriff’s Office hires ‘expeditor’ to help curb the jail population

    The Shelby County Sheriff's Office has hired an "expeditor" to help reduce jail population.

    By Yolanda Jones June 26, 2019

• February 2019

  • Authorities seeking Memphis rapper Blocboy JB on gun, drug charges

    The Shelby County Sheriff's Department is searching for Blocboy JB, a Memphis rapper scheduled to appear at the Beale Street Music Festival in May.

    By Yolanda Jones February 16, 2019

• January 2019

  • More than 400 Shelby County deputies, jailers will have to retake psychological tests

    More than 400 Shelby County deputies and jailers will have to retake psychological testing after officials learned the psychologist who did earlier testing had not been licensed by the state for 18 years.

    By Yolanda Jones January 24, 2019

  • Psychologist who gave sheriff’s deputies exam is unlicensed in Tennessee

    About 200 Shelby County sheriff's deputies are having to retake their psych exams because the Memphis psychologist who tested them in 2013 and 2014 has not been licensed in the state since 2001. 

    By Yolanda Jones January 22, 2019

• December 2018

  • Prisoners in Shelby County jails can make free holiday phone calls

    For 10 days during the holiday season, prisoners in Shelby County jails will get free five-minute phone calls to family and friends.

    By Yolanda Jones December 19, 2018

  • Sheriff’s Office hires consultant for juvenile detention center

    The Shelby County Sheriff’s Office has hired a former U.S. Department of Justice monitor as a consultant to help ensure the detention center at Shelby County Juvenile Court stays on track even though the facility is no longer under federal oversight, said Sheriff Floyd Bonner.

    By Yolanda Jones December 11, 2018

• October 2018

  • Victim in officer-involved shooting was wanted in recent interstate shooting

    The man shot and killed by Shelby County Sheriff’s deputies early Wednesday was wanted in connection with one of several recent interstate shootings, authorities confirmed Wednesday.

    By Yolanda Jones October 18, 2018

  • Guest Column: Shelby County sheriff seeks safety, justice and equity for everyone

    As I begin my journey of service as Sheriff of Shelby County, I am humbled by the faith this community has placed in me.

    By Floyd Bonner Jr. October 17, 2018

  • New initiative reduces court dates for misdemeanor citations

    Thousands of people issued misdemeanor citations each year in Memphis and Shelby County will now have to make one trip instead of two to 201 Poplar to be processed for their initial court date.

    By Yolanda Jones October 16, 2018