Allegany County Sheriff Rick Whitney was elected to serve as
a member of the New York State Sheriffs’ Association’s Executive Committee as a
Trustee at the organization’s 86th Annual Winter Training Conference held in
Albany January 20-23. The Association,
headquartered in Albany, is comprised of the state’s 55 elected and 3 appointed
Sheriffs, and was formed in 1934 to represent the interests and concerns of
Sheriffs and their constituents before the State Legislature, the Governor’s
Office and state criminal justice agencies, and to provide training and support
to Sheriffs and their staff across the state.
The Executive Committee is responsible for guiding the activities of the
organization between annual meetings of the Association.
Among other actions taken by the Association at the annual
conference was the adoption of resolutions opposing the decriminalization of
marijuana in New York, as being contrary to everyone’s efforts to fight the
opioid epidemic and vaping epidemic, and opposing the Governor’s proposal for
shared county jails, as being harmful to families, defense attorneys, the
inmates themselves, and the taxpayers. The Sheriffs also continue to urge
changes to the recently enacted bail and discovery rules. Whitney has served as
Sheriff of Allegany County since 2011.
