Editing Albany County, New York (section)

== Law enforcement ==
The Albany County Sheriff's Office is one of the oldest law enforcement agencies in the United States, having been established in the 1660s.<ref>{{cite web|title=County Sheriff, NY|url=https://www.albanycounty.com/government/departments/county-sheriff|access-date=October 24, 2021|website=Albany County}}</ref> Sheriff Craig Apple was first elected in 2011.<ref>{{cite web|title=Craig Apple|url=https://nysheriffs.org/sheriff/craig-apple/|access-date=October 24, 2021|language=en|work=NY Sheriffs Association}}</ref>

The sheriff is also responsible for the county jail, which was built in 1931,<ref>{{cite web|title=Corrections|url=https://www.albanycounty.com/government/county-sheriff/corrections|access-date=October 24, 2021|website=Albany County, NY}}</ref> and renamed from the Albany County Correctional Facility to the Albany County Corrections and Rehabilitative Services Center in 2019.<ref name="WAMC">{{cite web|date=September 9, 2019|title=County Jail Gets New Name, New Direction|url=https://www.wamc.org/capital-region-news/2019-09-09/county-jail-gets-new-name-new-direction|access-date=November 2, 2021|website=WAMC|language=en|author=Dave Lucas}}</ref> This jail has a contract with [[New York City]] to accept prisoners from their facilities. The New York Times has reported that juveniles sent to Albany were beaten and placed in isolation, which is forbidden in New York City.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Ransom |first1=Jan |title=Young Inmates Say They Were Shipped Upstate, Held in Isolation and Beaten |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/28/nyregion/solitary-confinement-lawsuit-young-inmates.html |access-date=December 29, 2018 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=December 29, 2018}}</ref>

The department investigated a criminal complaint against Governor Andrew Cuomo during the [[Andrew Cuomo sexual harassment allegations]], and filed a misdemeanor criminal complaint on its own authority to bring charges.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Mistich|first=Dave|date=August 7, 2021|title=The Albany County Sheriff Is Investigating A Criminal Complaint Against Gov. Cuomo|language=en|work=NPR|url=https://www.npr.org/2021/08/07/1025772844/the-albany-county-sheriff-is-investigating-a-criminal-complaint-against-gov-cuom|access-date=October 24, 2021}}</ref>