PO Box 102 Haw River, NC 27258

Together We Can Change Alamance

Supporting our community with care, dignity, and hope.

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Building A Future Together by Implementation

We will be an office dedicated to prioritizing community engagement, mental health crisis response, modernization of technology, and accountability. We will implement ongoing training for deputies on de-escalation and mental health awareness to ensure they can handle sensitive situations.

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Our mission is to bring a new era of integrity, justice, and accountability to the Sheriff's Office. My administration will be built on a foundation of community trust, transparent practices, and a commitment to proactive, prevention-focused policing that reduces crime and ensures every citizen is treated with dignity and respect.

What we do

The Sheriff’s Office isn't just about changing law enforcement on the streets; it's about fundamentally transforming all three pillars of the Sheriff's Office.
Law Enforcement * Detention (Jail) Center * Judicial (Court) Process

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People

What is Long's motivation to run?

A safer and unified
Alamance County.

We the people, deserve a sheriff's office that is Transparent, Accountable, and Connected to the people it serves.

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Community

What are the changes you want to see?

Steps to take for implementing change.

An office that prioritizes community engagement, mental health crisis response, and accountability.

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Outreach

Individuals supported through counseling

Community Outreach & Counseling

Emotional guidance, resources, and connections to vital services in our communities.

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Mental Health

Helps with the reduction of crime.

Mental Health, Crime, & Safety

Skills training & Ensuring Mental Health support is available to individuals in crisis will be a critical part of reducing crime.

Technology for Law Enforcement
(Using Al in Law Enforcement)

Artificial intelligence(AI) isn’t a tool of the future—it’s a present-day need. In a time when technology is getting smarter by the day, it’s imperative that law enforcement agencies (LEAs) have the opportunity to access technology that can help them perform their duties more efficiently and more accurately.
With digital evidence involved in roughly 90% of criminal cases, including surveillance, video, audio and social media, LEAs need modern solutions to overcome the burden of manual review.
When using the proper tools, we see that AI makes an invaluable assistant to productivity. It can reserve man-hours, optimize workflows, and allocate more resources toward human-centric tasks that cannot be automated.

There is a demand for both public justice and public safety agencies to provide audio, video, and image-based evidence with redacted sensitive information. Redaction ensures the safety of witnesses, complies with freedom of information laws, and meets requirements for public records requests. The process of manually redacting this information is both time-consuming and expensive for agencies.

Rather than dedicating dozens of employees and hundreds of man-hours to manual redaction, agencies can use AI-infused tools to detect and redact specific items (like heads or license plates) in a quick, cost-effective manner. After the agency has redacted their audio, video, or image-based evidence, Redact then allows them to download that information to their local computer for further processing.

The application can also:

Manage digital evidence redaction workloads by tagging audio and video evidence with its status in the approval workflow
Capture comprehensive reporting of all actions taken against redacted digital evidence to support compliance with chain of custody requirements

With AI-assisted redaction, identification, and discovery, public safety agencies can increase efficiency, improve investigative workflow, and optimize their day-to-day operations while increasing transparency and building better relationships with their community.

In a world where mountains of data can be created in a matter of seconds, video footage from multiple sources and angles is a double-edged sword for investigators. On one hand, the likeliness of finding footage of a suspect, witness, or victim increases drastically, but it could take several hours and employees to comb through and find them.

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Know Me

Shannon L. Long is a devoted leader who dedicates his life to serving his community. With 23 years of experience in law enforcement, along with 16 years as a successful business owner and 13 years as a respected pastor, Long embodies a lifelong commitment to public service. His wealth of experience provides him with a profound understanding of the unique challenges we face, and he is fully prepared to deliver the honorable leadership required to serve and protect our community with integrity and justice. Having lived in Alamance County for the last 18 years, Long is a dedicated advocate for positive change, striving to live by the principles of “God first, family, and community”. With his extensive experience in law enforcement, business, and pastoral care, he recognizes that trust is the foundation for progress. Through his candidacy, he aims to:

• Strengthen Relationships between law enforcement and the community they serve.

• Pursue and Achieve Accreditation to ensure commitment to transparency, accountability and professional excellence.

• Develop Innovative Strategies that tackle the county’s most
urgent public safety challenges.

YOU have the power to create the change needed in our community, and together, WE have the incredible opportunity to build a safer, more connected future for everyone!

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