Mississippi
Mississippi's 82 sheriffs are constitutional officers with no state mandate for civilian oversight. The major ongoing accountability actions — DOJ Civil Rights Division pattern-or-practice investigation of Rankin County (post-"Goon Squad," 2024), federal jail receivership in Hinds County (Judge Carlton Reeves, 2022) — are federal court mechanisms, not civilian oversight bodies. HB 691 (2024) strengthened state-level officer decertification but created no county structures.
Counties
| # | County | Oversight body | LE capability | Independence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No oversight body established | ||||
| 01 | Adams | — | — | — |
| 02 | Alcorn | — | — | — |
| 03 | Amite | — | — | — |
| 04 | Attala | — | — | — |
| 05 | Benton | — | — | — |
| 06 | Bolivar | — | — | — |
| 07 | Calhoun | — | — | — |
| 08 | Carroll | — | — | — |
| 09 | Chickasaw | — | — | — |
| 10 | Choctaw | — | — | — |
| 11 | Claiborne | — | — | — |
| 12 | Clarke | — | — | — |
| 13 | Clay | — | — | — |
| 14 | Coahoma | — | — | — |
| 15 | Copiah | — | — | — |
| 16 | Covington | — | — | — |
| 17 | DeSoto | — | — | — |
| 18 | Forrest | — | — | — |
| 19 | Franklin | — | — | — |
| 20 | George | — | — | — |
| 21 | Greene | — | — | — |
| 22 | Grenada | — | — | — |
| 23 | Hancock | — | — | — |
| 24 | Harrison | — | — | — |
| 25 | Hinds | — | — | — |
| 26 | Holmes | — | — | — |
| 27 | Humphreys | — | — | — |
| 28 | Issaquena | — | — | — |
| 29 | Itawamba | — | — | — |
| 30 | Jackson | — | — | — |
| 31 | Jasper | — | — | — |
| 32 | Jefferson | — | — | — |
| 33 | Jefferson Davis | — | — | — |
| 34 | Jones | — | — | — |
| 35 | Kemper | — | — | — |
| 36 | Lafayette | — | — | — |
| 37 | Lamar | — | — | — |
| 38 | Lauderdale | — | — | — |
| 39 | Lawrence | — | — | — |
| 40 | Leake | — | — | — |
| 41 | Lee | — | — | — |
| 42 | Leflore | — | — | — |
| 43 | Lincoln | — | — | — |
| 44 | Lowndes | — | — | — |
| 45 | Madison | — | — | — |
| 46 | Marion | — | — | — |
| 47 | Marshall | — | — | — |
| 48 | Monroe | — | — | — |
| 49 | Montgomery | — | — | — |
| 50 | Neshoba | — | — | — |
| 51 | Newton | — | — | — |
| 52 | Noxubee | — | — | — |
| 53 | Oktibbeha | — | — | — |
| 54 | Panola | — | — | — |
| 55 | Pearl River | — | — | — |
| 56 | Perry | — | — | — |
| 57 | Pike | — | — | — |
| 58 | Pontotoc | — | — | — |
| 59 | Prentiss | — | — | — |
| 60 | Quitman | — | — | — |
| 61 | Rankin | — | — | — |
| 62 | Scott | — | — | — |
| 63 | Sharkey | — | — | — |
| 64 | Simpson | — | — | — |
| 65 | Smith | — | — | — |
| 66 | Stone | — | — | — |
| 67 | Sunflower | — | — | — |
| 68 | Tallahatchie | — | — | — |
| 69 | Tate | — | — | — |
| 70 | Tippah | — | — | — |
| 71 | Tishomingo | — | — | — |
| 72 | Tunica | — | — | — |
| 73 | Union | — | — | — |
| 74 | Walthall | — | — | — |
| 75 | Warren | — | — | — |
| 76 | Washington | — | — | — |
| 77 | Wayne | — | — | — |
| 78 | Webster | — | — | — |
| 79 | Wilkinson | — | — | — |
| 80 | Winston | — | — | — |
| 81 | Yalobusha | — | — | — |
| 82 | Yazoo | — | — | — |