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Tompkins sheriff seeks funding for care teams, two jail officers as sheriff weighs boat purchase
Summary
Sheriff Derek Osborne asked the legislature’s expanded budget committee to keep two behavioral-health ‘care teams’ and to add two correction-officer positions for the jail, while also seeking money to replace a marine patrol boat and warning of ammunition and overtime shortfalls.
Sheriff Derek Osborne told the Tompkins County Expanded Budget Committee on Sept. 18 that his department is seeking no net new law‑enforcement FTEs in 2026 but wants to make two care‑team pilots permanent and is pressing for two additional correction officers at the county jail. Why it matters: The sheriff said the county’s mental‑health co‑response care teams have been successful and are being studied by other jurisdictions, and that adding the two correction officers would reduce unsustainable overtime in the jail and respond to a recent Commission of Corrections staffing directive. Osborne said the law‑enforcement division currently operates two care teams — "which are a mental health clinician paired with a deputy" — and that Team 1 is in the third year of a three‑year pilot; Team 2 is in year two. He…
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