Hamilton County Association of Chiefs of Police

06/24/2026

Sheriff,
Thank you for your clarification and your departments efforts to keep our streets safe. Once again, the lack of effective communication is impacting public safety here in Hamilton County.
All of our criminal justice system partners can and must do better!!!!

🚨 The Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office would like to clarify a portion of a news story that aired yesterday evening on Local 12 regarding probation and warrants. Accurate context is very important in helping the public understand how all facets of the public safety system operate.

As many of you know, the criminal justice system is complex. And even for those of us working to reform parts of the system and fill in the gaps in service, we must do so in a framework that has existed for decades and that requires an ongoing commitment from all parties and all agencies.

Sheriff Charmaine McGuffey and the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office will continue to work diligently to hold individuals who commit crimes in our community accountable for their actions.

Note:
Our Fugitive Warrants Unit *is notified* when warrants are filed for felony Common Pleas charges. As we very clearly stated to David Winter ahead of his reporting, Municipal misdemeanor warrants follow a different process, and we *are not notified* when warrants are filed as misdemeanors.

You can see our entire statement below. We hope this helps provide more accurate information to the public.

“The process for felony Common Pleas warrants generated by Hamilton County Probation is as follows: after the warrant is signed by the judge, our Fugitive Warrants Unit which consists of 5 deputies and 1 sergeant, receives those warrants and works with a US Marshals team to divide the cases and begin the process of attempting to locate and arrest the individuals with outstanding felony warrants. Our Fugitive Warrants Unit also notifies surrounding agencies if the wanted person lives in their jurisdiction, and we encourage those agencies to also affect an arrest.

Municipal misdemeanor warrants follow a different process, and we are not notified when warrants are filed as misdemeanors.”

06/24/2026

Effective public safety is made easier through more thorough and efficient communication and cooperation between law enforcement and the courts and probation.

03/27/2026

This is what accountability looks like.
Thank you Judge Greenberg
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/183MWGzUM6/

03/06/2026

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MARCH 6, 2026

HAMILTON COUNTY ASSOCIATION OF CHIEFS OF POLICE ATTEND CINCINNATI REGIONAL CHAMBER EVENT TO SHARE UPDATES AND ANSWER QUESTIONS FROM BUSINESS LEADERS ON ISSUES RELATED TO PUBLIC SAFETY AND THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM

Hamilton County, Ohio – On March 5, 2026 members of the Hamilton County Association of Chiefs of Police attended an information sharing event hosted by the Cincinnati Regional Chamber of Commerce. The various Chiefs, the Sheriff’s Office and the Hamilton County Prosecutor’s Office shared their progress on their initiative to address improvements in public safety and criminal justice in Hamilton County. This initiative began in August of 2025 and continues today and beyond. Chief Jeff Braun, President of the Hamilton County Association of Chiefs of Police said, “We are grateful for the invitation from the Chamber. Since the beginning of this initiative we have focused on transparency, accountability and cooperation among all criminal justice entities, the people and business and community leaders throughout Hamilton County. Public safety is always a concern for the business community and meetings and conversations with these business leaders are an important component to our efforts.”
Since the beginning of the initiative, the Chief’s Association has hosted several community roundtable events with more expected in the future. Through the leadership of the Association, unprecedented meetings and conversations have occurred between all of the entities of the county’s criminal justice system including meetings with Judges and Administrators from the Court of Common Please, the Juvenile Court and the Municipal Court. Chief Tim Holloway, Chair of the Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety described their efforts, “ For the first time in history, Judges, Law Enforcement, Prosecutors, Defense Attorneys, Administrators and others have sat together to address opportunities for improvement in the justice system and to foster greater public trust and confidence in the criminal justice system.” Attendees at the event included several dozen Cincinnati business leaders, 8 county police chiefs, Sheriff Charmaine McGuffey, Interim Chief Adam Hennie and Prosecutor Connie Pillich.

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03/04/2026

A new effort in Columbus to keep our communities safer and to hold criminals accountable

A new Ohio bill would limit charitable bail for violent offenders, increase bond minimums for repeated failures to appear and allow the Ohio Attorney General to appeal judges' decisions on bail.

The Holly Act is named after the woman injured in the violent downtown Cincinnati fight last summer.

12/23/2025

As the year comes to a close the Chief's Association wanted to take this opportunity to highlight what has been accomplished and what is to come next year in our efforts to make significant reforms to the Hamilton County criminal justice system to foster greater public safety.

11/21/2025

The Chief's Association has been meeting with our criminal justice partners and members of the community since August trying to get everyone to the table. We are pursuing transparency, accountability and cooperation from everyone. We have no interest in pointing fingers, just finding solutions.

“Everybody needs to be at the table that represents the system, and that’s law enforcement, mental health facilities, electronic monitoring, judges, probation,” explains Sheriff McGuffey. “All of us need to be seated at the table in a very equal way so that we’re all understanding of how the system is working.”

After an arrest is made in Hamilton County, the wheels of justice start turning here.

10/20/2025

Thank you Judge Ginocchio for recognizing the importance of keeping the community safe!!

The man accused of firing into a restaurant on Fountain Square, injuring two people, appears in court, where his bond was set at $2.6 million.

His lawyer tells WLWT the video doesn't show the full story: http://www.wlwt.com/article/man-arrested-fountain-square-shooting-shaquille-ferguson/69093516

10/15/2025

Thank you to the more than 200 community members who were present last night to share your concerns and suggestions to make Hamilton County safer for everyone.

Dozens of people showed up to a town hall event hosted by the Hamilton County Association of Chiefs of Police to discuss crime and public safety.

The meeting was the second so far in a series geared toward finding long-term solutions to crime and addressing long-standing issues within the region's criminal justice system.

Cincinnati Police Chief Teresa Theetge, who was supposed to be on the panel, did not attend because she was traveling to a national conference.

The next event in the series is scheduled for Wednesday, where Hamilton County Prosecuting Attorney Connie Pillich is set to attend.

10/13/2025

Reminder: Our next Townhall Event is tomorrow night, Tuesday October 14th. The last event had over 150 people in attendance and we look forward to hearing again from the people of Hamilton County on what is important to you when it comes to public safety and the criminal justice system.