• FUNDING: County Commissioners fund an elected sheriff to do his job.
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  • MANDATORY JOB: Florida statutes only stipulate that a sheriff MUST do civil process (aka serve papers). That's it! (read the fine print LOL)
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  • Nowhere in the state constitution or state statutes does it state that an elected Florida sheriff must be in charge of a countywide police department. Nowhere! (read the fine print LOL)
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  • County Commissioners can statutorily fund the newly elected sheriff to exclusively run a civil section (serving papers) -- and nothing else.
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  • If the County Commissioners also want to fund an elected sheriff to operate court security (bailiffs) and/or a jail and/or a patrol division, then that is their prerogative -- but it is not statutorily mandated.
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  • MDPD can remain intact with it's own appointed director, while an elected sheriff runs civil process.