OREGON SHERIFF Magazine News

Sheriff Trumbo was born August 9, 1949 in Albany, Oregon. He moved to Corvallis, Oregon in 1956. Graduated Corvallis High School in 1967.

Sheriff Trumbo graduated Blue Mountain Community College, Criminal Justice in 1993 and worked as Reserve Deputy at Benton County Sheriff's Office from January 1973 to April 1977.

Sheriff Trumbo has been with the Umatilla County Sheriff's Office from April 1977 to the present. He was elected Sheriff in November 1996 and took office in January 1997. His wife Carol is a 1st grade teacher at Sherwood Elementary School. Son Mike is a Technician at Intel Corporation in Hillsboro, Oregon. Son Nick works for Snyder's Bread Company and is the father of Sheriff Trumbo's first grandchild, Cade.

Hobbies: Construction of all types, repairing and rebuilding stock and horse trailers. Horse back riding and packing. Working on the farm.

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OREGON SHERIFF Magazine News

Summer, 2010 -- The good news is the 2010-11 Sheriff's Office operating budget has been approved; however, the bad news is a distressing reduction of $540,000 resulting in the loss of four jail positions.

Our focus is to maintain capacity levels through short-term reductions to our inmate population, which may be a necessity to continue state required inmate to staff ratio levels. As strenuous as it was to withstand the requested reductions, next year's funding challenges could possibly be even more restricting.

My continued mission as Sheriff is to maintain current staffing levels in the Criminal Patrol Division; therefore, any future budget cuts will affect jail personnel and directly impact the inmate population. The Sheriff's Office team continues to pursue additional funding sources and explore cost saving measures.

Congratulations to the Rural Neighborhood Watch Program and the "Spofford Unit," a new unit located out of Milton-Freewater who recently completed their training.

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