Indiana

Indiana's 92 counties each operate under IC 36-8-10 Sheriff's Merit Boards, but those are employment civil service bodies dominated by LE-affiliated appointees and run within the sheriff's office, not external civilian oversight. No Indiana county has an external civilian review or inspector-general body covering the sheriff. Marion County's Unigov consolidation (1970) preserved the elected sheriff as a separate constitutional office; no external oversight body exists.
Sheriff oversight
0/92 counties with a dedicated body 0 reports from those bodies
Other oversight
0 Civil Grand Jury reports 25 statewide oversight reports
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92 sheriffs named · of 92 counties
Population, budget, $ per resident, staffing, and jail capacity across all 92 counties.

Data from CA State Controller's Office and CA State Sheriffs' Association.

State context

Indiana's 92 counties each elect a sheriff who serves as a county constitutional officer under the Indiana Constitution, Article 6, Section 2, for a four-year term, with a county residency requirement. Statutory duties, including arrest, suppression of breaches of the peace, pursuit and jailing of felons, service of process, and custody of the county jail and its prisoners, are set out in Indiana Code 36-2-13.

Marion County (Indianapolis) is the one structural exception. The 1970 Unigov city-county consolidation preserved the constitutional sheriff's office, but effective 2007 the office's road-patrol and investigations divisions were merged into the newly created Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department (IMPD), whose command moved to the Mayor of Indianapolis in 2008. The Marion County Sheriff today runs the county jail, court and City-County Building security, civil process and warrants, and the sex-offender registry, without a general road-patrol function. No Indiana county has an external civilian review or inspector-general body covering the sheriff; each county's sheriff's Merit Board, established under Indiana Code 36-8-10, is an internal employment and civil-service body, not external oversight.

Counties

0 of 92 counties have a dedicated civilian sheriff oversight body. Highlighted rows have an established body. See methodology for scoring.

# County Status (date) Started (date) LE capability Independence

No record found · 92 counties

  • Adams
  • Allen
  • Bartholomew
  • Benton
  • Blackford
  • Boone
  • Brown
  • Carroll
  • Cass
  • Clark
  • Clay
  • Clinton
  • Crawford
  • Daviess
  • DeKalb
  • Dearborn
  • Decatur
  • Delaware
  • Dubois
  • Elkhart
  • Fayette
  • Floyd
  • Fountain
  • Franklin
  • Fulton
  • Gibson
  • Grant
  • Greene
  • Hamilton
  • Hancock
  • Harrison
  • Hendricks
  • Henry
  • Howard
  • Huntington
  • Jackson
  • Jasper
  • Jay
  • Jefferson
  • Jennings
  • Johnson
  • Knox
  • Kosciusko
  • LaGrange
  • LaPorte
  • Lake
  • Lawrence
  • Madison
  • Marion
  • Marshall
  • Martin
  • Miami
  • Monroe
  • Montgomery
  • Morgan
  • Newton
  • Noble
  • Ohio
  • Orange
  • Owen
  • Parke
  • Perry
  • Pike
  • Porter
  • Posey
  • Pulaski
  • Putnam
  • Randolph
  • Ripley
  • Rush
  • Scott
  • Shelby
  • Spencer
  • St. Joseph
  • Starke
  • Steuben
  • Sullivan
  • Switzerland
  • Tippecanoe
  • Tipton
  • Union
  • Vanderburgh
  • Vermillion
  • Vigo
  • Wabash
  • Warren
  • Warrick
  • Washington
  • Wayne
  • Wells
  • White
  • Whitley