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Ana Franklin of Morgan County Sheriff's Office Alabama
>https://www.al .com/news/index.ssf/2018/09/alabama_sheriffs_get_front_row.html
Back Story
Ana Franklin is making history as the first woman to run for sheriff of Morgan County.
Franklin, 45, is running for the Republican nomination against two-term incumbent Greg Bartlett and contender Noel Mayfield, a former Decatur police officer.
Franklin was an investigator for the sheriff's office before retiring in December, when she went into business buying Family Fitness Center.
Franklin said that, if elected, she would run a transparent sheriff's office.
"I think the sheriff's office is probably one of the biggest responsibilities there is in Morgan County," Franklin said. "There are so many opportunities to do good in that office. We need to look at the things that are good and keep them, and we need to look at things that are not and change those."
Franklin said sheriff's office financial records for such funds as the pistol permit and inmate food would be available for citizen inspection if she were elected.
"I'll work hard and I will do it with integrity," she said.
Franklin said she would immediately apply for grants to help pay for putting resource officers in the county's school system.
"Community awareness through education is critical," she said. "We don't have any resource officers in our county schools and there are grants that can be obtained to put them there. I would get the funding because it's needed."
In addition to working at the sheriff's office, Franklin also was a volunteer in Limestone County Sheriff Mike Blakley's office and a volunteer and founding member of the North Alabama Search Dog Association.
"(Blakely) told me there was no bigger responsibility than to be a law enforcement officer, and that's what I believe," she said.
In the Morgan County Sheriff's Office, Franklin was lead investigator for the sex offenders unit.
She was named the 2007 Morgan County Law Enforcement Officer of the year because she had the highest number of arrests in the county.
She was the first woman assigned to the county's drug task force and worked vice and narcotics, where she saw first-hand the dangers of crystal meth.
"I am the only candidate who is certified in meth labs, and I made hundreds of meth arrests," she said. "I didn't come after everything was over. I suited up and was one of the first to go through the doors, pulling samples."
She told The Decatur Daily that law enforcement is more than making arrests.
"Sure, we want to arrest those who break the law, but we also need to do prevention through educational sources," she said. "That's why I feel we should start when they're young in school teaching them about meth and crime."
>http://www.thearabtribune .com/news/ana-franklin-running-for-morgan-county-sheriff/article_fa063865-ef04-5313-829e-1304dfb35a9a.html
Fun Facts
Ana Franklin won't run for 3rd term as Morgan sheriff
>https://www.decaturdaily .com/news/local/ana-franklin-won-t-run-for-rd-term-as-morgan/article_cde52d3d-6384-5846-8fa5-59071277cb91.html
Franklin has been held in contempt of a federal court order for using the jail's food money to invest in a crooked used car lot, and more recently a judge said the sheriff and a handful of deputies behaved deceitfully and criminally to pursue charges against the ousted warden. Franklin and those deputies are the subjects of investigations by state and federal law enforcement. She has said she plans to finish her term.
>https://www.al .com/news/index.ssf/2018/06/ana_franklin_ron_puckett.html