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Hodgson was appointed sheriff of Bristol County by then-Governor William F. Weld on May 21, 1997. [6] He won election to a full six-year term in 1998 and moved to Fall River the next year. He garnered press for charging inmates for room and board, medical services and hair cuts while in jail and for getting rid of televisions and the weight room.
Paul Heroux (born 1976) is an American politician who is the Sheriff of Bristol County, Massachusetts. He previously served as Mayor of Attleboro, Massachusetts , and a State Representative from the Second Bristol District, elected in 2012.
This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 357 law enforcement agencies employing 18,342 sworn police officers, about 280 for each 100,000 residents.
The Bristol County Sheriff's Office is being sued, he noted, stemming from the riot in 2020. The lawsuit was filed in behalf of 16 detainees at the former Immigration Detention Center building ...
The U.S. state of Massachusetts has 14 counties, though eight [1] of these fourteen county governments were abolished between 1997 and 2000. The counties in the southeastern portion of the state retain county-level local government (Barnstable, Bristol, Dukes, Norfolk, Plymouth) or, in one case, (Nantucket County) consolidated city-county government.
Bristol County Sheriff candidate Paul Heroux attends forum hosted by South Coast groups.
Bristol County was created by the Plymouth Colony on June 2, 1685, [3] and named after its "shire town" (county seat), Bristol. [4] The Plymouth Colony, along with the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the Maine Colony and several other small settlements were rechartered in 1691, by King William III, to become The Province of Massachusetts Bay.
There is no such office in Massachusetts. A Massachusetts sheriff is principally the guy who runs the county jail. --Conant Webb 12:12, 7 July 2007 (UTC) If there's no such office, why is the title used in Plymouth County, as well as the former Franklin County? Seems to me the adjective's optional. Sahasrahla 02:27, 8 July 2007 (UTC)