Alabama
Alabama has no statewide statute authorizing or mandating county
civilian oversight of sheriffs, and no Alabama county has
established such a body. Alabama's 67 sheriffs are constitutional
officers under Ala. Const. Art. V § 137. The Alabama Legislature
has been consistently hostile to police oversight reform; post-2020
sessions focused on expanding sheriff authority, not constraining it.
Sheriff oversight
0/67 counties with a dedicated body
0 reports from those bodies
Other oversight
0 Civil Grand Jury reports
0 statewide oversight reports
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Counties
| # | County | Status (date) | Started (date) | LE capability | Independence |
|---|
No record found · 67 counties
- Autauga
- Baldwin
- Barbour
- Bibb
- Blount
- Bullock
- Butler
- Calhoun
- Chambers
- Cherokee
- Chilton
- Choctaw
- Clarke
- Clay
- Cleburne
- Coffee
- Colbert
- Conecuh
- Coosa
- Covington
- Crenshaw
- Cullman
- Dale
- Dallas
- DeKalb
- Elmore
- Escambia
- Etowah
- Fayette
- Franklin
- Geneva
- Greene
- Hale
- Henry
- Houston
- Jackson
- Jefferson
- Lamar
- Lauderdale
- Lawrence
- Lee
- Limestone
- Lowndes
- Macon
- Madison
- Marengo
- Marion
- Marshall
- Mobile
- Monroe
- Montgomery
- Morgan
- Perry
- Pickens
- Pike
- Randolph
- Russell
- Shelby
- St. Clair
- Sumter
- Talladega
- Tallapoosa
- Tuscaloosa
- Walker
- Washington
- Wilcox
- Winston