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Fairfax sheriff warns mandatory overtime and pay gap are creating staffing crisis at detention center
Summary
Sheriff Stacy Kincaid and senior Sheriff's Office staff told the board that mandatory overtime has more than doubled since 2021, vacancy patterns and pay competition with the Fairfax County Police Department are driving resignations, and the office wants pay comparators and structural changes to reduce turnover and restore alternative sentencing options.
Sheriff Stacy Kincaid and senior deputies told the Fairfax Safety & Security Committee that chronic vacancies, a widening pay gap with the county police and escalating mandatory overtime are straining the adult detention center and eroding alternatives to incarceration.
"The trajectory is unsustainable," Lieutenant Colonel Nick Andres, chief deputy of operations for the Sheriff's Office, said after presenting data showing mandatory overtime hours rising from 33,839 in 2021 to a projected 79,000 in 2025. Andres said confinement squads that should be staffed with about 50 deputies are operating with roughly 32 each, creating a…
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