County Commission moves forward on sheriff’s pay raise, but not its own
Shelby County Commissioner Edmund Ford Jr. said “it’s time to reconsider and recalibrate salaries” for the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian file)
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 Meanwhile, a proposal to give the next group of commissioners a pay raise was withdrawn.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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