GWINNETT COUNTY SHERIFF
Find out where the candidates stand on the issues.
THE CANDIDATES
The ACLU of Georgia is a non-partisan organization and does not endorse candidates for elected office. The information below is provided as a service to the public by identifying where candidates stand on key issues. The candidates are listed in alphabetical order by last name.
*Indicates that the candidate failed to respond to our questionnaire.
DEMOCRATIC
KEYBO TAYLOR
ACLU SCORE:
0%*
NO RESPONSE
REPUBLICAN
LOU SOLIS, JR.
ACLU SCORE:
0%*
NO RESPONSE
IMMIGRANT RIGHTS - 0%*
1. Will you commit to terminating Cobb County’s 287g agreement and any other agreement with I.C.E.?
FAILED TO RESPOND
2. Will you commit to decline I.C.E. detainer requests unless they are accompanied by a judicial criminal warrant?
FAILED TO RESPOND
3. Will you commit to decline I.C.E. access to detention center facilities and databases?
FAILED TO RESPOND
4. Will you commit to not rent detention space to I.C.E. for the purpose of holding immigrants?
FAILED TO RESPOND
ENDING MASS INCARCERATION - 0%*
5. Will you commit to end the use of cash bail within the sheriff’s purview and to advocate for the reform of the cash bail system?
FAILED TO RESPOND
6. Will you commit to end the enforcement of misdemeanor marijuana position as within the Sheriff’s purview?
FAILED TO RESPOND
TRANSPARENCY AND USE OF FORCE - 0%*
7. Will you commit to enacting a use of force policy that directs officers to use de-escelation whenever possible, and prohibits them from using force more than neccesary to accomplish a legitimate public safety or jail security objective?
FAILED TO RESPOND
8. Will you commit to using independent investigations outside the chain of command of the sheriff in situations where there is a death or serious injury in which an officer was involved?
FAILED TO RESPOND
9. Will you commit to establishing an independent community advisory board including Cobb County residents and impacted community members that would meet regularly with the sheriffs’s office, request and review data, inspect jail facilities, and make reccomendations on enforcement and jail policies, practices, and responses to incidents?
FAILED TO RESPOND
DEFENDING CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS - 0%*
10. Will you commit to making sure that people who are arrested or people who are incarcerated have timely access to legal council and in-person meetings with family members?
FAILED TO RESPOND
11. Will you commit to ensuring that people who are arrested or are incarcerated are not denied their abillity to access mail?
FAILED TO RESPOND
12. Will you commit to ending solitary confinement as a response to all but the most serious offenses that inflicted considerable harm?
FAILED TO RESPOND
13. Will you commit to limit solitary to up to 15 consecutive days in all cases?
FAILED TO RESPOND
14. Will you commit to prohibit the use of solitary confinement for people with physical and mental diabilities?
FAILED TO RESPOND
PROTECTING LGBTQ INDIVIDUALS - 0%*
15. Will you commit to to place and classify people by their gender identity?
FAILED TO RESPOND
16. Will you commit to ensure transgender people have access to medically neccesary care?
FAILED TO RESPOND
HOLDING OFFICERS ACCOUNTABLE - 0%*
17. Will you commit to discipline and/or terminate officers and staff who violate departmental or county policies or engage in misconduct?
FAILED TO RESPOND
18. Will you decline to hire unqualified people or people who have engaged in misconduct previously?
FAILED TO RESPOND
19. Will you commit to train staff of crisis management, hire staff to treat people with mental health conditions, and increase addiction treatment and support in jails?
FAILED TO RESPOND
IMMIGRANT RIGHTS - 0%*
1. Will you commit to terminating Cobb County’s 287g agreement and any other agreement with I.C.E.?
FAILED TO RESPOND
2. Will you commit to decline I.C.E. detainer requests unless they are accompanied by a judicial criminal warrant?
FAILED TO RESPOND
3. Will you commit to decline I.C.E. access to detention center facilities and databases?
FAILED TO RESPOND
4. Will you commit to not rent detention space to I.C.E. for the purpose of holding immigrants?
FAILED TO RESPOND
ENDING MASS INCARCERATION - 0%*
5. Will you commit to end the use of cash bail within the sheriff’s purview and to advocate for the reform of the cash bail system?
FAILED TO RESPOND
6. Will you commit to end the enforcement of misdemeanor marijuana position as within the Sheriff’s purview?
FAILED TO RESPOND
TRANSPARENCY AND USE OF FORCE - 0%*
7. Will you commit to enacting a use of force policy that directs officers to use de-escelation whenever possible, and prohibits them from using force more than neccesary to accomplish a legitimate public safety or jail security objective?
FAILED TO RESPOND
8. Will you commit to using independent investigations outside the chain of command of the sheriff in situations where there is a death or serious injury in which an officer was involved?
FAILED TO RESPOND
9. Will you commit to establishing an independent community advisory board including Cobb County residents and impacted community members that would meet regularly with the sheriffs’s office, request and review data, inspect jail facilities, and make reccomendations on enforcement and jail policies, practices, and responses to incidents?
FAILED TO RESPOND
DEFENDING CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS - 0%*
10. Will you commit to making sure that people who are arrested or people who are incarcerated have timely access to legal council and in-person meetings with family members?
FAILED TO RESPOND
11. Will you commit to ensuring that people who are arrested or are incarcerated are not denied their abillity to access mail?
FAILED TO RESPOND
12. Will you commit to ending solitary confinement as a response to all but the most serious offenses that inflicted considerable harm?
FAILED TO RESPOND
13. Will you commit to limit solitary to up to 15 consecutive days in all cases?
FAILED TO RESPOND
14. Will you commit to prohibit the use of solitary confinement for people with physical and mental diabilities?
FAILED TO RESPOND
PROTECTING LGBTQ INDIVIDUALS - 0%*
15. Will you commit to to place and classify people by their gender identity?
FAILED TO RESPOND
16. Will you commit to ensure transgender people have access to medically neccesary care?
FAILED TO RESPOND
HOLDING OFFICERS ACCOUNTABLE - 0%*
17. Will you commit to discipline and/or terminate officers and staff who violate departmental or county policies or engage in misconduct?
FAILED TO RESPOND
18. Will you decline to hire unqualified people or people who have engaged in misconduct previously?
FAILED TO RESPOND
19. Will you commit to train staff of crisis management, hire staff to treat people with mental health conditions, and increase addiction treatment and support in jails?
FAILED TO RESPOND
REPUBLICAN
LOU SOLIS, JR.
ACLU SCORE:
0%*
NO RESPONSE
IMMIGRANT RIGHTS - 0%*
1. Will you commit to terminating Cobb County’s 287g agreement and any other agreement with I.C.E.?
FAILED TO RESPOND
2. Will you commit to decline I.C.E. detainer requests unless they are accompanied by a judicial criminal warrant?
FAILED TO RESPOND
3. Will you commit to decline I.C.E. access to detention center facilities and databases?
FAILED TO RESPOND
4. Will you commit to not rent detention space to I.C.E. for the purpose of holding immigrants?
FAILED TO RESPOND
ENDING MASS INCARCERATION - 0%*
5. Will you commit to end the use of cash bail within the sheriff’s purview and to advocate for the reform of the cash bail system?
FAILED TO RESPOND
6. Will you commit to end the enforcement of misdemeanor marijuana position as within the Sheriff’s purview?
FAILED TO RESPOND
TRANSPARENCY AND USE OF FORCE - 0%*
7. Will you commit to enacting a use of force policy that directs officers to use de-escelation whenever possible, and prohibits them from using force more than neccesary to accomplish a legitimate public safety or jail security objective?
FAILED TO RESPOND
8. Will you commit to using independent investigations outside the chain of command of the sheriff in situations where there is a death or serious injury in which an officer was involved?
FAILED TO RESPOND
9. Will you commit to establishing an independent community advisory board including Cobb County residents and impacted community members that would meet regularly with the sheriffs’s office, request and review data, inspect jail facilities, and make reccomendations on enforcement and jail policies, practices, and responses to incidents?
FAILED TO RESPOND
DEFENDING CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS - 0%*
10. Will you commit to making sure that people who are arrested or people who are incarcerated have timely access to legal council and in-person meetings with family members?
FAILED TO RESPOND
11. Will you commit to ensuring that people who are arrested or are incarcerated are not denied their abillity to access mail?
FAILED TO RESPOND
12. Will you commit to ending solitary confinement as a response to all but the most serious offenses that inflicted considerable harm?
FAILED TO RESPOND
13. Will you commit to limit solitary to up to 15 consecutive days in all cases?
FAILED TO RESPOND
14. Will you commit to prohibit the use of solitary confinement for people with physical and mental diabilities?
FAILED TO RESPOND
PROTECTING LGBTQ INDIVIDUALS - 0%*
15. Will you commit to to place and classify people by their gender identity?
FAILED TO RESPOND
16. Will you commit to ensure transgender people have access to medically neccesary care?
FAILED TO RESPOND
HOLDING OFFICERS ACCOUNTABLE - 0%*
17. Will you commit to discipline and/or terminate officers and staff who violate departmental or county policies or engage in misconduct?
FAILED TO RESPOND
18. Will you decline to hire unqualified people or people who have engaged in misconduct previously?
FAILED TO RESPOND
19. Will you commit to train staff of crisis management, hire staff to treat people with mental health conditions, and increase addiction treatment and support in jails?
FAILED TO RESPOND
DEMOCRATIC
KEYBO TAYLOR
ACLU SCORE:
0%*
NO RESPONSE
IMMIGRANT RIGHTS - 0%*
1. Will you commit to terminating Cobb County’s 287g agreement and any other agreement with I.C.E.?
FAILED TO RESPOND
2. Will you commit to decline I.C.E. detainer requests unless they are accompanied by a judicial criminal warrant?
FAILED TO RESPOND
3. Will you commit to decline I.C.E. access to detention center facilities and databases?
FAILED TO RESPOND
4. Will you commit to not rent detention space to I.C.E. for the purpose of holding immigrants?
FAILED TO RESPOND
ENDING MASS INCARCERATION - 0%*
5. Will you commit to end the use of cash bail within the sheriff’s purview and to advocate for the reform of the cash bail system?
FAILED TO RESPOND
6. Will you commit to end the enforcement of misdemeanor marijuana position as within the Sheriff’s purview?
FAILED TO RESPOND
TRANSPARENCY AND USE OF FORCE - 0%*
7. Will you commit to enacting a use of force policy that directs officers to use de-escelation whenever possible, and prohibits them from using force more than neccesary to accomplish a legitimate public safety or jail security objective?
FAILED TO RESPOND
8. Will you commit to using independent investigations outside the chain of command of the sheriff in situations where there is a death or serious injury in which an officer was involved?
FAILED TO RESPOND
9. Will you commit to establishing an independent community advisory board including Cobb County residents and impacted community members that would meet regularly with the sheriffs’s office, request and review data, inspect jail facilities, and make reccomendations on enforcement and jail policies, practices, and responses to incidents?
FAILED TO RESPOND
DEFENDING CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS - 0%*
10. Will you commit to making sure that people who are arrested or people who are incarcerated have timely access to legal council and in-person meetings with family members?
FAILED TO RESPOND
11. Will you commit to ensuring that people who are arrested or are incarcerated are not denied their abillity to access mail?
FAILED TO RESPOND
12. Will you commit to ending solitary confinement as a response to all but the most serious offenses that inflicted considerable harm?
FAILED TO RESPOND
13. Will you commit to limit solitary to up to 15 consecutive days in all cases?
FAILED TO RESPOND
14. Will you commit to prohibit the use of solitary confinement for people with physical and mental diabilities?
FAILED TO RESPOND
PROTECTING LGBTQ INDIVIDUALS - 0%*
15. Will you commit to to place and classify people by their gender identity?
FAILED TO RESPOND
16. Will you commit to ensure transgender people have access to medically neccesary care?
FAILED TO RESPOND
HOLDING OFFICERS ACCOUNTABLE - 0%*
17. Will you commit to discipline and/or terminate officers and staff who violate departmental or county policies or engage in misconduct?
FAILED TO RESPOND
18. Will you decline to hire unqualified people or people who have engaged in misconduct previously?
FAILED TO RESPOND
19. Will you commit to train staff of crisis management, hire staff to treat people with mental health conditions, and increase addiction treatment and support in jails?
FAILED TO RESPOND
HOLDING OFFICERS ACCOUNTABLE - 0%*
17. Will you commit to discipline and/or terminate officers and staff who violate departmental or county policies or engage in misconduct?
FAILED TO RESPOND
18. Will you decline to hire unqualified people or people who have engaged in misconduct previously?
FAILED TO RESPOND
19. Will you commit to train staff of crisis management, hire staff to treat people with mental health conditions, and increase addiction treatment and support in jails?
FAILED TO RESPOND
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