Dr. Errol D. Toulon, Jr

Dr. Errol D. Toulon, Jr. is Suffolk County, New York's 67th Sheriff and the County's first African American to be elected to a non-judicial countywide office. Now in his third term, he continues to serve and protect the county's 1.5 million residents through innovative programs to reduce crime and recidivism.

Sheriff Toulon has greatly expanded correctional rehabilitation programming and jail intelligence gathering initiatives. In 2020, Sheriff Toulon created The Sheriff's Transition and Reentry Team (START), a national model for rehabilitation, which assists incarcerated individuals with reentry services to put them on a better path upon finishing their sentence. In 2023, he created the Corrections Intelligence Center a first-of-its-kind jail intelligence network that shares data, trends, and potential threats across jails and prisons.

Toulon is a three-time cancer survivor and, prior to being Suffolk County Sheriff, he worked for 25 years with the New York City Department of Correction, culminating as the Deputy Commissioner of Operations. He received his bachelor's degree in Business Administration from Monroe College, a master's degree in Business Administration and a doctorate in Educational Administration from Dowling College; an advanced certificate in Homeland Security Management from Long Island University, and he attended leadership courses at the JFK School of Government at Harvard University.