Oak Grove officials hear sheriff—s —Meet the Deputy—; prosecutor flags rising competency reviews and DWI trends

Chief Deputy Bill Jacobson of the Anoka County Sheriff—s Office introduced the deputies assigned to Oak Grove and said the county and city partnership that supplies four full-time contracted deputies will continue in 2025.

The update came during the Oak Grove City Council meeting on Feb. 10, when Jacobson and other sheriff—s office representatives presented staffing, monthly call statistics and answered council questions about immigration-detainer policies and traffic enforcement. City Prosecutor Scott Baumgartner also presented annual disposition statistics and described shifts prosecutors and police are seeing in DWI cases and competency proceedings. Public works and county engineering staff described an upcoming Viking Boulevard (County Road 22) construction bid and options for temporary traffic patterns; a resident raised a separate dispute about monthly streetlight charges and was told the city can consider a neighborhood petition to remove lights.

Why it matters: Oak Grove officials and residents received both operational detail (who will patrol the city and basic monthly crime counts) and trend information that affects public safety planning: prosecutors and the sheriff—s office signaled more time-consuming DUI and competency matters that can take deputies off patrol and add workload to the courts, while planned county road construction could shift regional traffic onto local streets.

Chief Deputy Bill Jacobson told the council Oak Grove remains staffed by four full-time deputies working 12-hour rotations and praised the local partnership: "we are proud of our partnership with the city of Oak Grove going on 30 some years now." He introduced Deputies Jason Corlew, Kurt…