Dougherty County Sheriff looks forward to serving a fourth term and implementing new programs

ALBANY, Ga. – In Dougherty County, the race for sheriff was on the ballot for Tuesday’s election.

Incumbent Kevin Sproul has held the position for 12 years and was up against retired colonel Sabrina Lewis.

Sproul garnered 6,992 votes to Lewis’s 3,694.

Dougherty County’s Sheriff says, “To each and every person who helped me in anyway, prayed for me, made monetary donations, put out yard signs, worked the polls as a volunteer, I just thank you from the bottom of my heart that you saw that in me, that you would be willing to do that for me and I appreciate it and I’m not going to let anybody down.”

Sproul adds that he looks forward to the future and is currently working with the Dougherty County jail on an “inmate visitation program.”

The program would allow the loved-ones of inmates to log on to the jail’s system to video chat with incarcerated friends or family.

Sproul says this would help keep people from having to drive out to the jail and make it easier for people from out of town to keep in touch.

Sproul says he looks forward to the program and “making visitation more accessible to loved ones.”