SWEETWATER COUNTY — Sweetwater County Sheriff Candidate Randall Tryzbiak says the office has problems and needs a perspective from outside law enforcement.

Tryzbiak issued a short campaign announcement discussing his reasons for seeking election.

Tryzbiak moved to Rock Springs nearly 20 years ago and has lived in the area continuously for 16 years. During that time, he has established businesses in the area.

“My son grew up here. My businesses are here. My neighbors are here,” he said. “I am running because the people in this county deserve more from the sheriff’s office than they are getting.”

He said the office doesn’t need more spending or more programs, but thinks it needs more accountability. He says the kind of accountability needed is hard to find when the position goes to someone already working in the office and “already owes people inside the building.”

Tryzbiak believes the problems within the office need to be addressed during the next four-year term, saying the behavioral crisis is both documented and not going away while budget pressures from declining energy revenue is real. 

“Programs the department depends on are running on outside funding that will not last,” he said. “None of that gets better on its own.”

Tryzbiak said he doesn’t have a career in law enforcement, saying that perspective isn’t a liability in the race, but what is needed for the sheriff’s office. He believes the perspective results in a sheriff that walks into the job without obligations to anyone in the sheriff’s office without past decisions to defend. 

“The deputies in this office are professionals,” he said. “They deserve a leader who backs them up and runs the department without getting tangled in internal politics.”

Tryzbiak said if elected he will walk into the office without inside the sheriff’s office, with his obligation being to Sweetwater County’s residents and the SCSO’s employees.