Pinal County Sheriff's Office

All right, here we go.

My name is Ross Teeple, and I am honored to be elected the 25th Sheriff of Pinal County, Arizona, and proud to be married to my beautiful bride for the last 33 years.

Protecting public safety and defending constitutional rights are law enforcement's most important jobs.

I am here today because I firmly believe we can use technology to keep our community safe while still achieving both of these vital goals.

Police services.

We have a contract with the Pinal County Sheriff's Office.

Fire, not just fire response, which is fire protection, but also our fire marshal and commercial inspections sprinkler plan review that's called fire prevention.

We have an agreement with the rural metro fire district to do that.

After nearly an hour calling their names, searching the surrounding area, and checking nearby trail exits with no results, the family had to face the worst possibility.

At ten forty-three PM, the official missing persons report was made to the Pinal County Sheriff's Office, marking the moment the incident crossed from a late hiking return into an emergency situation.

As soon as the call came in, the Pinal County Sheriff's Office immediately activated the search and rescue team that night, because in the Superstition Mountains, every hour passing in darkness, cold, and treacherous terrain could erase traces and turn a disappearance irreversible.

A small initial group of deputies, a K-nine unit, and the preliminary ISAR team arrived at the First Water trailhead.

They swept the parking area with floodlights and called out Evan and Liam's names, but the only response was the dry wind rustling through creosote bushes.

No one knew for how long, where, or by whom, but his body told the story in its own way.

A dark, slow, and painful one that needed no words.

[mouse clicking] On the law enforcement side, Liam's return immediately revived dusty files in the Pinal County Sheriff's Office archives.

Katherine Davis Young, KJZZ News, Phoenix.

The Pinal County Sheriff was on Capitol Hill this week to testify about automatic license plate readers made by the company Flock and others.

Citing privacy concerns, Sheriff Ross Teeple recently opted not to renew a contract for ALPRs.

Now he's calling on members of the Senate Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism to help regulate the tech.

You have to take control of the situation.

You want to know who you're dealing with." And then y- and then once he gets the documents, he said, "I'm Officer Frank Slope from the Pinal County Sheriff's Office.

I pulled you over for whatever the reason is, and you go from there." But he has every right to protect himself and identify the person he's dealing with, especially when you've pulled them over for a crime.

So before we jump to conclusions, it's unfortunate that it's a legitimate concern based on what's happened in the past, but let's not jump to too many conclusions.