The Sheriff’s Office operates the county jails, investigates crimes, makes arrests, and maintains security in county and district courts.
While we encourage visitors to share thoughts and opinions on the Denton County Sheriff’s Office Facebook page, we expect that this will be done in a respectful manner.
The Denton County Sheriff’s Office does not agree with or endorse every comment that individuals post on our pages. Our goal is to share information with as many individuals as possible, and our policy is to accept the majority of comments made to our profile; however, all comments will be deleted within a 24 hour period to prevent our visitors from being spammed.
In addition, comments will be deleted immediately if they contain:
• Hate speech,
• Profanity, obscenity or vulgarity,
• Nudity in profile pictures,
• Defamation to a person or people,
• Name calling and/or personal attacks,
• Comments whose main purpose are to sell a product,
• Comments that infringe on copyrights,
• Spam comments, such as the same comment posted repeatedly on a profile,
• Other comments that the Denton County Sheriff’s Office Social Media team deems inappropriate.
All links posted as comments on the Denton County Sheriff’s Office site posts will be reviewed and may be deleted.
Violations of the Denton County Sheriff’s Office comment policy may cause the author to be blocked from the Denton County Sheriff’s Office Facebook page.
We understand that social media is a 24/7 medium; however, our moderation capabilities are not. We may not see every inappropriate comment right away, and we are trusting in the maturity of our community to ignore personal attacks and negative speech or respond politely.
The office of sheriff is a constitutionally created office with duties prescribed by the Texas legislature (Tex. Const. Art. V sec. 23). The sheriff is the chief law enforcement officer for the county and is elected every four years.
The sheriff has countywide jurisdiction, but in practice, most sheriffs’ offices concentrate their activities outside city limits where municipal officers cannot operate.
The Denton County Sheriff’s Office has historically been a rural law enforcement agency, but due to the increase and changing demographics of the population, it has become a more urban law enforcement agency of more than 500 dedicated employees who provide services to a growing and dynamic Texas county.
The sheriff is responsible for operating the county jails, investigating crimes, making arrests, enforcing traffic regulations on county roads and maintaining security in both the county and district courts. We are also charged with civil and criminal processes such as subpoenas, warrants and writs of attachments.
