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Interim St. Louis sheriff moves budget around to do medical transports for jail 5%
By Chad Davis0%
5/13/2026, 10:00:00 AM
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Louis Sheriff's Office officials said they've been able to provide more medical transports from the city jail thanks to a new overtime budget.
Previous administrations said staffing shortages prevented them from providing transportation for medical services.
Interim Sheriff John Hayden Jr. discussed the department's budget proposal for the next fiscal year with the Board of Aldermen's Budget and Public Employees Committee on Monday.
The board is hearing from all city departments this month.
Hayden said the department moved money to an overtime budget to pay workers to assist with hospital details and transporting detainees.
“What we've done this time was we've asked for $50,000 ahead of time, kind of anticipating the ongoing need for being able to call people from home,” Hayden said.
The lapse in medical transportation was one of the chief criticisms against former Sheriff Alfred Montgomery.
The Board of Aldermen passed legislation last year requiring the department to provide transports after sheriff's lawyers questioned if it was a mandated duty.
The state attorney general's office also argued that Montgomery was not fulfilling his duties when it sued to oust him from office.
When asked about the relationship between the sheriff and the Department of Corrections, Hayden said it's going well and that the sheriff's office is doing what it can with the available resources.
“We're managing, there's times when it's really tough,” Hayden said during the meeting.
“We are willing to go down to the wire.”
The office created the overtime budget to assist the corrections division.
Hayden said he wants to return to the board at a later date to discuss more efficient methods to handle hospital details and hopes to set up hospital wards for detainees who need medical care.
Alderman Matt Devoti said Monday that he was pleased by the steps the office has made since Hayden was named sheriff last October.
The sheriff's office's requested budget also includes expenses for a reworked taser contract split up into a five-year period.
“That's an increase of approximately $107,000 year [over] year,” Hayden said.
A spokesperson for the sheriff said the $12.7 million budget is subject to change based on a pay bill that would raise deputy salaries.
Hayden said the department is short 31 deputies.
A spokesperson for the office said it's trying to hire 33 full-time equivalent workers but only 11 have been confirmed by judges so far.
The department is requesting an additional full-time employee in the cashier's office.
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