About the candidate
Heather Lappin has 20 years of experience in the Pima County Sheriff’s Department. Her rank is commander.
Lappin lists as her top priorities keeping families safe, improving jail conditions, making the budget more transparent and improving deputy training and retention. On her campaign website she says she’ll focus on “rising crime, deaths at our county jail, our budget and ultimately the character and integrity of the Sheriff’s Department itself.”
June 2024 candidate forum
All of the candidates participated in a forum on June 17 hosted by the League of Women Voters of Greater Tucson and the Tucson Branch of the NAACP.
The candidates answered questions about racial and ethnic disparities in the criminal justice system, what they would do to increase the number of women and people of color on staff, their positions on deflection-to-treatment programs for people caught with drugs, and what they would do to restore public trust in the sheriff’s department.
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