Shane Manwaring

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The full-time elected head of the Sheriff's Office, which runs the county jails, provides court security, serves legal papers, and supports countywide investigations and search and rescue.

Role

Countywide jail, court-security and civil-process chief; must be a POST-certified peace officer

Hours

Full-time

Pay

$200,530

Typical week

Running two jails and about 1,200 budgeted staff around the clock, court security, budget and public-safety coordination

Responsibilities and powers

• Must preserve the peace, make lawful arrests, attend and secure the courts, keep the county jail and its prisoners, and serve court process and notices (Utah Code 17-72-301).
• The office runs the Metro Jail and Oxbow Jail, plus Public Safety and Law Enforcement bureaus, Search and Rescue and the Mounted Posse, with "over 1,100 employees and volunteers" (SLCo Sheriff).
• Taylorsville note: day-to-day policing in Taylorsville is done by the city's own police department (FY2027 Police budget $15.3M; Taylorsville FY27 budget), not the Sheriff. Taylorsville residents rely on the Sheriff mainly for the jail and court security [INFERRED].
• Qualifications: at filing, a POST certificate showing the candidate meets peace-officer standards and can be certified as a law enforcement officer (17-72-201).
• Four-year partisan term; on the Nov 3, 2026 ballot.

A typical week [INFERRED from the office's bureaus]

• Jail population and staffing decisions, court-security planning, command-staff meetings, budget and council presentations, community events and media.

Time commitment

• Full-time and on call [INFERRED].

Staff and budget

• 1,213 FTEs: County Jail 901, Court Services and Security 148, Countywide Investigations and Support Services 164 (SLCo FTE table). 2026 budget $211.0 million, the largest of any separately elected county office (Budget in Brief p.14).

Pay

• $200,530 a year, about $89.6k in benefits (2025; public-safety retirement) (SLCo pay schedule p.48).

Sources

• Utah Code 17-72-301, 17-72-201
• SLCo Sheriff

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