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Sheriff Mark Dannels |
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Sheriff Mark
J. Dannels (Republican
Party) is the current Sheriff of Cochise County,
Arizona |
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Congressman
Andy Biggs, Sheriff Dannels and
Republican Congressman Brian Babbins (Texas) |
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Photo:
Wikimedia Commons |
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Cochise County
Sheriff Sued For
Ignoring Public
Records Request |
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"Cochise County
Sheriff Mark
Dannels has been
sued for allegedly
ignoring a public
records request made
nearly seven months
ago by an
investigative
reporter ago seeking
a list of all
deputies and other
sworn personnel." |
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Mar. 15, 2023 |
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Sheriff
Mark
Dannels
Uses
Frequent
Right-Wing
Media
Appearances
To
Demonize
Immigrants
And Push
Falsehoods
About
The
Border |
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Jan. 31,
2023 |
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"According
to the
Arizona
Center
for
Investigative
Reporting,
Dannels
is an
adherent
of the
far-right
“constitutional
sheriffs”
movement,
which
claims
sheriffs
are the
highest
legitimate
legal
authority
in the
country.
(Legal
scholars
say the
movement’s
reading
of the
law is
baseless.)
He also
spoke at
a 2019
event
for the
Constitutional
Sheriffs
and
Peace
Officers
Association
(CSPOA),
an
organization
founded
by
former
Sheriff
Richard
Mack
with
origins
in the
far-right
“posse
comitatus”
movement
of the
1970s.
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Dannels
is also
linked
to
anti-immigrant
group
Federation
for
American
Immigration
Reform
(FAIR),
which is
classified
as a
hate
group by
the
Southern
Poverty
Law
Center.
He spoke
at one
of the
organization’s
events
in June
2021,
and
attended
a FAIR
event in
Washington,
D.C., in
2022,
praising
the
group
for
“doing
what you
have to
do for
the
country.” |
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In
July
2019,
Dannels
was
pictured
smiling
alongside
then-Rep.
Steve
King
(R-IA),
who The
Washington
Post had
already
characterized
as “the
U.S.
congressman
most
openly
affiliated
with
white
nationalism.”" |
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Dannels, Others
Fired From Homeland
Security Advisory
Council |
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Sheriff Mark
Dannels, along with
several other
individuals, has
been dismissed from
the Homeland
Security Advisory
Council, a
bipartisan panel put
in place by the
Obama and Trump
administrations. The
“pink slip” to
Dannels and about 29
other members of the
advisory group was a
letter dated March
26 from Alejandro Mayorkas, the new
secretary of the
Department of
Homeland Security.
Mayorkas was
recently appointed
by the Biden
administration to
head the federal
agency. |
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May 5, 2022 |
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