LIVINGSTON COUNTY, NY — One of the few surprises in Tuesday’s local elections came in Livingston County.

Veteran county district attorney Greg McCaffery lost his re-election bid to Ashley Williams, a former assistant district attorney. McCaffery had been district attorney for 12 years.

Williams won the county with more than 15,000 voters and 52 percent of the vote.

News10NBC’s Tom Kowalski spoke with Williams about what he will do differently in the future.

“You know, I have a lot of respect for him and I worked for him. But moving forward, we have two different visions for Livingston County to move forward and take advantage of, as I mentioned before, some of the shortcomings that I saw to make Livingston County as safe as possible,” Williams said.

Williams has criticized his former boss. On social media, she criticized him for not standing up to bail reform measures and for not wanting to oppose “his Democratic political bosses in New York and Albany.” Williams says he plans to work more with authorities.

“I firmly believe that whenever there is criminal justice involvement, it is the case that the prosecutor’s office does one part of the job and the law enforcement agency does the other. And when there’s a break in that continuum, that really compromises public safety. So for me, I wanted to make sure that my message going forward is that law enforcement will be an integral part of our partnership, in terms of ensuring that there is communication and effective prosecution,” Williams said.

News10NBC contacted McCaffery, who declined to comment, but Livingston County Democratic Party Chairwoman Judith Hunter said in a statement that “Ms. Williams’ campaign, while successful, lacked integrity. Hopefully his tenure will be an improvement.”

“I want to express a message of unity. I am the elected district attorney. I want to be everyone’s prosecutor and for everyone and make sure everyone feels like it’s not bipartisan and there’s no separation, that we’re one community. And I will preside and protect everyone, and work with everyone accordingly,” Williams said.