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Hennepin County sheriff outlines staffing, fentanyl response and jail programs in Dayton presentation
Summary
Hennepin County Sheriff Dwan Witt briefed the Dayton City Council on recruitment and retention work, new bureaus, anti-fentanyl initiatives and jail programming during a Feb. 11 presentation to the council.
Hennepin County Sheriff Dwan Witt told the Dayton City Council on Feb. 11 that recruitment and retention remain priorities for his office and outlined several programmatic responses to violent crime and overdose risk, including a county auto-theft initiative and a prevention-focused program on fentanyl.
Witt, elected in 2022, said the sheriff’s office employs about 830 full-time staff countywide and has reduced licensed-deputy vacancies from about 30–35 earlier in his term to roughly 17…
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