Editing Arkansas County, Arkansas (section)

===Public safety===
The Arkansas County Sheriff's Office is the primary law enforcement agency in the county. The agency is led by the Arkansas County Sheriff, an official elected by countywide vote every four years. Police departments in Stuttgart, DeWitt, Humphrey, Gillett, and Almyra provide law enforcement in their respective jurisdictions, with St. Charles contracting with the Arkansas County Sheriff's Office for law enforcement services.

The county is under the jurisdiction of two separate district courts, both local district courts of [[original jurisdiction]] for criminal, civil, small claims, and traffic matters. Local district courts are presided over by an elected part-time judge who may privately practice law. Arkansas County Northern District Court is held in Stuttgart.<ref>{{ cite web |author=Staff of the Arkansas Judiciary |title=Arkansas County District Court-Northern District |publisher= Arkansas Judiciary |work= District Court Directory |url=https://www.arcourts.gov/directories/district-courts?&field_district_court_target_id=1206 |access-date= May 25, 2020 }}</ref> Arkansas County Southern District Court has departments in DeWitt, Gillett, and St. Charles.<ref>{{ cite web |author=Staff of the Arkansas Judiciary |title=Arkansas County District Court-Southern District |publisher= Arkansas Judiciary |work= District Court Directory |url=https://www.arcourts.gov/directories/district-courts?&field_district_court_target_id=1207 |access-date= May 25, 2020 }}</ref>

Superseding district court jurisdiction is the [[Arkansas Circuit Courts|11th East Judicial Circuit Court]], which covers all of Arkansas County.<ref>{{ cite web |author=Staff of the Arkansas Judiciary |title=Arkansas Judicial Circuits |year=2019 |publisher= Arkansas Judiciary |url=https://www.arcourts.gov/sites/default/files/arkansas-judicial-circuits-2019.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201028024222/https://www.arcourts.gov/sites/default/files/arkansas-judicial-circuits-2019.pdf |archive-date=October 28, 2020 |url-status=live |access-date= May 25, 2020 }}</ref> The 11th East Circuit contains one judge elected to a six-year term.<ref>{{ cite web |author=Staff of the Arkansas Judiciary |title=Eleventh East Judicial Circuit |publisher= Arkansas Judiciary |work= Circuit Judge Directory |url=https://www.arcourts.gov/directories/circuit-judges?title=&field_county_circuit_target_id=&field_judicial_circuit_target_id=835 |access-date= May 25, 2020 }}</ref>

[[Fire protection]], [[fire prevention|prevention]] and [[Wildfire suppression|suppression]] is provided by eleven agencies in Arkansas County, together covering the entire county. The six incorporated municipalities each provide fire protection, in some cases extending beyond corporate limits. Rural areas are served by the Alcorn, Casscoe, Crockett's Bluff, One Horse, and Tichnor volunteer fire departments.<ref>{{ cite map |author=Arkansas Division of Emergency Management, Fire Services Office |title= Arkansas Fire Districts |year= 2020 |url=http://arfire.arkansas.gov/Home |format= SHP |publisher=Arkansas Economic Development Institute, [[University of Arkansas at Little Rock]] |scale= Various |location= Little Rock, Arkansas |access-date= May 25, 2020 |via=Arkansas Department of Transformation and Shared Services }}</ref> All fire departments in Arkansas County are volunteer-based, except the Stuttgart Fire Department.