Sheriff’s Office outlines free nine-day Citizens Academy, invites residents to sign up for next year

Deputy Jen, a community deputy with the county sheriff’s office, told the meeting the department recently held its 2025 Citizens Academy, a nine-day, free program that moved around the county and offered residents behind-the-scenes tours, hands-on training and emergency-response demonstrations.

The Citizens Academy covered a range of law-enforcement operations and support services, Jen said, adding that residents can sign up to receive email or text notice when registration opens for next year. “If anybody wants information or wants to know when the registration opens up, they can go here, sign up,” Deputy Jen said.

Why it matters: the academy is a community-outreach effort intended to increase public understanding of sheriff’s office operations — from dispatch and emergency management to detention procedures and crisis response — and to encourage broader…