2026 New York General Election

Juan Figueroa

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Juan Figueroa is a former commissioned officer in the Marine Corps and a retired New York State Trooper.

Juan currently serves as Ulster County Sheriff. He was first elected in 2018.

Sheriff Juan Figueroa Announces Run for Reelection (PDF)

Improving Police-Community Relations

In response to the killing of George Floyd and the call for racial justice, all members of the Ulster County Sheriff’s Office participated in groundbreaking Officer-Citizen Interaction Training. We will continue to build bridges rather than walls between law enforcement and the people we serve.

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Protecting the Rights of Immigrants

I supported the Green Light bill that allowed undocumented immigrants drivers licenses, making us all safer. We stopped cooperating with ICE, allowing undocumented immigrants to come out of the shadows.

Caring for Our Officers

Law enforcement is a tough job that taxes the physical and mental health of officers. We have initiated an Employee Assistance Program and Helping Every Responder Overcome—Resilience Project to ensure that our rank and file are at their best both physically and mentally, so they can better serve the community.

Enhanced law-enforcement training in de-escalation and implicit bias.

Implemented training on officer-citizen interactions for all sheriff's office members and plans to strengthen police-community relationships.

Supported the Green Light law allowing undocumented immigrants to obtain driver's licenses.

Ended cooperation with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to encourage undocumented immigrants to come forward.

Initiated officer wellness programs focused on employees' physical and mental health.

- Implemented training on officer-citizen interactions for all sheriff's office members and plans to strengthen police-community relationships.
- Supported the Green Light law allowing undocumented immigrants to obtain driver's licenses.
- Ended cooperation with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to encourage undocumented immigrants to come forward.
- Initiated officer wellness programs focused on employees' physical and mental health.

Public Safety

Provides jail-based pre-apprenticeships, General Educational Development classes, work-readiness, and career-development programming through IGNITE.

Jail Management

Fighting the Opioid Crisis

Opioid Response as County Law Enforcement (ORACLE) began soon after I took office in 2019. With a $900,000 grant, we have expanded it beyond education to include a social worker, peer advocates and case manager who are embedded with law enforcement. We steer addicts into treatment rather than incarceration.

Preventing Youth Violence

The Anti-Violence Response Team (AVERT) works to keep high-risk young people out of the criminal justice system and give incarcerated people an opportunity to stay out of jail once they are released. It includes job training, mental health services, gun buybacks—whatever it takes to break the cycle of violence.

Plans to ask regional businesses to provide employment opportunities for people with low-level convictions.

Expanded opioid-response services that steer people with addiction into treatment rather than incarceration.

Implemented the Anti-Violence Response Team, providing services intended to keep high-risk young people out of the criminal justice system and support reentry.

- Expanded opioid-response services that steer people with addiction into treatment rather than incarceration.
- Implemented the Anti-Violence Response Team, providing services intended to keep high-risk young people out of the criminal justice system and support reentry.

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