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HISTORY
HISTORY
The Offices of the Sheriffs of the State of Idaho were first established under territorial law circa 1860, the Frontier Era. These Offices were later formalised by the Constitution.
On the 14th January, 1865, the first Ada County Sheriff, J.C. Geer, was appointed by the Territorial Governor. The early conditions of the Office of the Sheriff were extremely basic: the Sheriff had no full time Deputies, and operated out of a shared, rented building named, "Huggins Hall," which also functioned as a courthouse and church on Sundays.
As Ada County grew with the Oregon Trail Migration, and during the Idaho Gold Rush throughout the 1860s and 1870s, the Sheriff's Office expanded from consisting of only a single official into a structured county law enforcement agency: the same idea as what we see it as today.
This expansion continued throughout the 20th Century, figureheaded by significant modernisation during the 1990s. The present-day workforce of the Ada County Sheriff's Office consists of over 80 sworn Deputies who ensure the safety of the 1,000 square miles Ada County spans, with its 495K population; and regularly employs 2β5 civilian employees and consultants to manage the administration.
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