Suffolk County            Sheriff's Office

DO YOU HAVE MULTI-LANGUAGE ACCESS?

 

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Suffolk County Sheriff Dr. Errol D. Toulon, Jr. has made it the policy of the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Office to take all reasonable measures to provide timely, meaningful access to individuals with Limited English Proficiency (LEP) to the services and benefits the Sheriff’s Office provides in all Office sponsored programs. All Sheriff’s Office personnel shall provide free language assistance services to LEP individuals whom they encounter or whenever an LEP individual requests language assistance services. Sheriff’s Office personnel will inform citizens that language assistance services are available free of charge to LEP persons and Office personnel will provide these services to such persons.

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This policy is outlined in Sheriff's Office Directive #18-001 and is in accordance with Suffolk County Legislature Introductory Resolution No. 1016-2020 and Local Law 25-2020, A Local Law to Expand Language Access Laws in Suffolk County.

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Language Line Services

All employees of the Sheriff’s Office have access to the Language Line service 24 hours a day, seven days per week. Language Line provides interpretation services in more than 200 different languages. Dual handset telephones for use in communicating via the Language Line service are available in all Sheriff’s Office facilities.

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Multilingual Language Internet Customization

To access our website in an alternative language, please use Google Translator at the upper left on the page. 

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WHAT IS YOUR PRIVACY POLICY?

 

We receive, collect and store any information you enter on our website or provide to us in any way. In addition, we collect the Internet Protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the internet including: login information, email address, computer and connection information. We may use software tools to measure and collect session information including page response times, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information and methods used to browse away from the page. We also collect personally identifiable information including: name, email address, communications, comments, feedback, product reviews, recommendations and personal profile information.

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We collect personal and non-personal information for the following purposes:

1. To provide and operate our services;

2. To provide our users with ongoing customer assistance and technical support;

3. To be able to contact our visitors and users with general or personalized service-related notices and promotional messages;

4. To create aggregated statistical data and other aggregated and/or inferred non-personal information which we may use to provide and improve our respective services;

5. To comply with any applicable laws and regulations.

 

COMMUNICATION

The Suffolk County Sheriff's Office will only contact you via email with updates on events or promotional materials should you join our email list.

 

WITHDRAW OF CONSENT

If you would like to access, correct, amend or withdraw any personal information we have about you, you are invited to contact us at paul.spinella@suffolkcountyny.gov. Please include your name and email address and include any changes or removal of information you would like. We will send you back a confirmation of your preferred changes.

 

PRIVACY POLICY UPDATES

We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, so please review it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the website. If we make changes to this policy, we will highlight changes or modifications here so that you are aware of information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we use and/or disclose it.  

 

COOKIES

The Suffolk County Sheriff's Office website may use "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookies to you. 

 

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you register with the Suffolk County Sheriff's Office website, a cookie helps to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information such as billing addresses, shipping information, etc. When you return to the same website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved so you can easily use the features you have customized.

 

​You have the ability to accept or decline cookies on our website. Most web browsers will automatically accept cookies but you can modify your browser settings to decline cookies or ask every time if you prefer. To modify your browser, go to your computer settings and click the link for your web or browser settings. If you decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of specific websites you may visit. 

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