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Walker County Sheriff’s Office Restructuring in Hopes of More Deputy Pay
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Walker County Sheriff’s Office Restructuring in Hopes of More Deputy Pay

WALKER CO., Alabama (WBRC) – The Walker County Commission is restructuring the sheriff’s office to be able to give deputies raises in the near future.

Sheriff Nick Smith says the commission has allocated 85 positions for his office in the 2025 budget year. Right now, they have people filling 104 positions, some of which are part-time.

He says that while the commission is not laying people off, those part-time positions will not be filled after people quit or resign.

In addition to the 85 sheriff’s office employees, court security is assigned 5 positions and the Board of Education pays for 9 school resource officers, so Sheriff Smith says they will only lose 5 positions instead of 19.

“My office and the employees here agree to do whatever it takes to make our agents better paid for doing their jobs because that has been one of the struggles I have had for seven years: paying agents $13.50 per hour in a market where everyone around you costs more than 20 dollars an hour,” he explained.

In addition to losing some part-time positions, the sheriff says they are combining the Narcotics Division and the Investigation Division into one entity instead of two, which is how it is currently configured.

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