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At the Oklahoma County Sheriff’s Office, our mission is to be the foundation on which everyone in Oklahoma County may thrive, by strengthening public trust and ensuring safe, secure environments through quality, professional law enforcement.

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Law Enforcement Search

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Sex Offender Search

Sex Offender Search

Keeping Our Community Safe

Our agency is pleased to provide OffenderWatch® for the citizens of Oklahoma County. OffenderWatch® is the nation’s leading registered sex offender management and community notification tool with hundreds of leading agencies in dozens of states utilizing it. Oklahoma County’s law enforcement utilizes OffenderWatch® to manage and monitor the whereabouts, conduct and compliance status of the registered offenders in Oklahoma County. OffenderWatch® provides the most Sex Offenders Search Powered by Offender Watch accurate and timely information available and now this information is available to you!

OffenderWatch® is updated instantaneously throughout the day as offender addresses and other offender information is updated in our office. You may enter any address in the county and see real-time information on the publishable offenders within the specified radius of the address you enter. Offenders move frequently, so instead of having to check the maps on a weekly basis, the best way to stay informed is to take advantage of our free email alert system. You may confidentially register as many addresses in the county as you wish, and we will continuously monitor the addresses and send you an email alert if a new offender registers an address within one mile of any address you register. There is no cost for this service and no limit to the number of addresses you can register – your email address and physical addresses are all confidential. Tell your friends and neighbors and be sure to register your home, school, work, gym, day care, park, soccer field, parents or children’s homes – any address of interest to you!

For information regarding sex and violent offender registration, contact the Oklahoma County Sheriff’s Office at 405-713-2042.

 

Sheriff Foreclosure Sales

Sheriff Foreclosure Sales

The Oklahoma County Sheriff Foreclosure Sale is published monthly for two consecutive weeks at least thirty days prior to the date of sale. The foreclosed properties are published in local newspapers in which the property is located. The public may also buy property sale lists for $4.00 at the Oklahoma County Sheriff's Office Civil Division located at 2101 NE 36th Street, Oklahoma City, OK 73111. View published foreclosure listings here.

Registration Form

Click here to view the Sales Registration page.

Sale Location

The Sheriff's Foreclosure Sales will be conducted at 4205 N Lincoln Blvd (North entrance) at 10 am on one Tuesday per month. Registration will open at 9:00 am. DO NOT enter the building until we open the door. There will be NO re-entry, doors lock at 10 am. The schedule is subject to change due to weather and holidays.

Parking

There are only 6 handicapped parking spots available, so it's first come first parked in the handicapped parking spots. ALL other parking HAS TO BE in Tier 2 and 3 for the Sheriff's sale. All other parking is assigned for ACOG & Election Board employee parking. Violation of parking will be checked and could cause a violator's vehicle to be towed.

Requirements

  • Minimum bid must be at least two-thirds of the appraised price of the property
  • Down payment of at least 10% of the purchase price is due within 24 hours of sale paid directly to the Court Clerk's office
  • The remaining 90% of the purchase price is due at least 1 day before the confirmation hearing paid directly to the Court Clerk's office
  • All funds shall be collected via certified funds (cashier's checks & money orders)
  • Any sale is subject to cancellation by the plaintiff

To contact Oklahoma County's civil team, please contact Kim Gennings at (405) 713-1056 or via e-mail at kim.gennings@oklahomacounty.org.

Printing Instructions

To print the list of properties in the Sheriff’s Foreclosure Sale for this month, you will need to click on the listings and then change your browser’s page setup to landscape view. To view the listings click here. For instructions on how to print, please click here.

Sheriff's Sales Listings

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Warrant Search

Warrant Search

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Meet the Sheriff

Tommie Johnson III

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Oklahoma County Sheriff Tommie Johnson III is an Oklahoma City native and a decorated law enforcement professional. Sheriff Johnson took office on January 4, 2021. He has made significant improvements to the Oklahoma County Sheriff’s Office in just a short time. 

Sheriff Johnson made it clear that his focus in office would be on transparency and increasing efficiency within the agency. Johnson’s first order of business was to request a full audit of the Sheriff’s Office property and put in place new mechanisms for better maintaining inventory. Every month Sheriff Johnson releases spending numbers, to the penny, on social media. He has equipped deputies with body cameras for the first time in the agency’s history, believing the cameras not only exonerate the innocent, but also hold deputies accountable. 

Recognizing the need for improved mental health services, Sheriff Johnson named a deputy full time to work with our mental health consumers, dramatically reducing the number of 911 calls we get from those consumers. This is a proactive way of policing and helping those in mental health crisis, while also freeing up deputies to patrol and keep communities safe. He also partnered with the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services to equip all patrol deputies with an iPad so they can connect with a counselor 24/7 to help those in crisis. Sheriff Johnson also requires all deputies to go through CIT (Crisis Intervention Training) to be able to work with people experiencing mental health issues. 

Under Johnson’s leadership, deputies now have the tools they need to protect and serve the people of Oklahoma County. He purchased more than 120 new Chevy Tahoe patrol vehicles to replace the agency’s aging fleet using federal dollars so there was no impact on local taxes. He also purchased new ballistic vests for deputies through a combination of seized drug funds and donations. 

Johnson is a graduate of Eastern Oklahoma State College and East Central University and rose to the rank of Master Police Officer at the Norman Police Department before being elected Sheriff. He serves as a youth sports coach and regularly volunteers as a mentor for at risk kids in local elementary schools, where he tries to be a positive male influence in the lives of young boys. That is why Johnson chose to be sworn in as Sheriff at his high school alma-mater to send the message that, with hard work, you can accomplish anything! 

Johnson grew up attending Antioch Baptist Church and is now a member of People’s Church, both in Oklahoma City. He and his wife, Amanda have been married since 2014 and have three sons and a daughter. 

Sheriff Johnson was sworn in to his second term as Oklahoma County Sheriff on January 2, 2025 and was sworn in to his second term as Region Two Board Representative for the Major County Sheriff’s of 

America on January 27, 2025. When his Region Two seat came up for re-election, he was unopposed and was sworn in to his second term. In this position, Sheriff Johnson represents the Sheriff’s in Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Texas.
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History

Office Formation

The Office of Sheriff is one of antiquity. It is the oldest law enforcement office known within the common-law system and it has always been accorded great dignity and high trust. For the most part, the Office of Sheriff evolved out of necessity. Were it not for laws which require enforcing, there would have been no necessity for the Sheriff. There would have been no need for the development of police administration, criminology, criminalists, etc. This is not the case, however. Man learned quite early that all is not orderly in the universe. All times and all places have generated those who covet the property of their neighbors and who are willing to expropriate this property by any means. As such, man's quest for equity and order gave birth to the Office of Sheriff, the history of which begins in the Old Testament and continues through the annals of Judeo-Christian tradition. Indeed, there is no honorable law enforcement authority in Anglo-American law so ancient as that of the County Sheriff. And today, as in the past, the County Sheriff is a peace officer entrusted with the maintenance of law and order and the preservation of domestic tranquility.

Beginning of the Office

The Office of Sheriff and the law enforcement, judicial and correctional functions he performs are more than 1,000 years old. The Office of Sheriff dates back at least to the reign of Alfred the Great of England, and some scholars even argue that the Office of Sheriff was first created during the Roman occupation of England.

Around 500 AD, Germanic tribes from Europe (called the Anglo-Saxons) began an invasion of Celtic England which eventually led over the centuries to the consolidation of Anglo-Saxon England as a unified kingdom under Alfred the Great late in the 9th Century. Alfred divided England into geographic units called "shires," or counties. In 1066, William the Conqueror defeated the Anglo-Saxons and instituted his own Norman government in England. Both under the Anglo-Saxons and under the Normans, the King of England appointed a representative called a "reeve" to act on behalf of the king in each shire or county. The "shire-reeve" or King's representative in each county became the "Sheriff" as the English language changed over the years. The shire-reeve or Sheriff was the chief law enforcement officer of each county in the year 1000 AD. He still has the same function in Oklahoma in the year 2000 AD. Oklahoma's first constitution, adopted in July 1907, created the Office of Sheriff as an elected official in each county. The concepts of "county" and "Sheriff" were essentially the same as they had been during the previous 900 years of English legal history. Because of the English heritage of the American colonies, the new United States adopted the English law and legal institutions as its owner.

Development

Oklahoma's constitution has been revised several times through the years, but the constitutional provisions establishing the Office of Sheriff remains the same as it was in 1907, which, in turn, is strikingly similar to the functioning of the Office of Sheriff at the time of Alfred the Great and William the Conqueror. The major difference, of course, is that the Kings of England appointed their Sheriffs. From the earliest times in America, our Sheriffs have been elected by the people to serve as the principal law enforcement officer of each county. Oklahoma County marks its beginnings with Oklahoma Territory. It was one of the first 7 counties of Oklahoma, organized under the Organic Act passed by Congress on May 2, 1890. It was designated County Number 2 until voters named it Oklahoma County.

There have been 22 Sheriff’s of Oklahoma County. The first Sheriff was C.H. DeFord who took office on June 30, 1890, and served for 19 months through January 1892. The average length of service of all Sheriff's of Oklahoma County has been 5 years, with the longest being almost 26 years and the shortest 1 month. Clearly, the Sheriff is the only viable officer remaining of the ancient offices, and his contemporary responsibility as conservator of the peace has been influenced greatly by modern society. As the crossbow gave way to the primitive flintlock, the Sheriff is not unaccustomed to change. But now, perhaps more than ever before in history, law enforcement if faced with complex, moving, rapid changes in methodology, technology, and social attitudes. As Thomas Jefferson wrote in his The Value of Constitutions, "the Office of Sheriff is the most important of all the executive offices of the county."



Tommie Johnson III
Sheriff

Oklahoma County Sheriff's Office

2101 NE 36th St
Oklahoma City, OK 73111

405-713-1000
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