The Sheriff’s Office published a new organizational chart on Friday that merges two of its operating divisions into one. On the same day it posted the first public description of the jail re-entry program that sits inside a third.

The chart is dated 11 September 2026 and it replaces one dated 8 July 2026, which the agency’s own site had carried until Friday. The July chart ran five divisions under the Sheriff, among them a Patrol Division holding three units and an Operations Division holding sixteen. The September chart runs four, and those two now appear on it as a single Patrol and Operations Division carrying all nineteen of the same units.

Nothing was added to that combined list and nothing was dropped from it in the merger. Patrol, School Crossing Guard and Youth Services, which were the whole of the Patrol Division in July, now head the merged division. Agriculture, Air Operations, Beach Services, Community Response and DUI follow them in the order they held in July. The rest of the list runs through Emergency Management, FTEP, Homeland Security, K9, Marine, PSA and Reserves. It closes with Special Operations, Task Force, Traffic and Motors, and Training, which is last on both versions of the chart.

The three other divisions carry the same units in the same order on both charts, again with nothing added and nothing taken away. General Services holds thirteen of them, among them Accreditation, Body Worn Cameras, E911, Records and Validations, while the investigations division holds nine. The Corrections Division holds eleven, and one of the eleven is the unit the chart spells Reentry, which is the subject of the second document posted Friday.

Both charts print a staffing count in the same corner of the page, in the same two-line format, beside the Sheriff’s name. The July chart gives 887 full-time employees and 135 part-time employees, and the September chart gives 893 full-time employees and 156 part-time employees.

What the re-entry page says the program does

The Reentry unit has appeared under the Corrections Division since at least the July chart. Until Friday the agency’s site carried no page describing what that unit actually does, and the page that went up is headed SJSO Re-Entry Center. It states that the center “helps individuals leaving the SJSO Detention Center reintegrate successfully by coordinating essential need such as housing, employment, mental health care, and addiction treatment during the critical transition period after release.”

The services the page lists are specific rather than general, and several are the logistics that decide whether a release holds. It describes a DMV room, “partnered with DMV to allow program participants to obtain DL or ID onsite,” and help obtaining a birth certificate. It lists resource and job fairs, transition into structured sober living programs and housing, and bus and train tickets for family reunification. It lists coordination of employment opportunities, veteran resources and mentorship programs, and under assistance it lists clothing, food, hygiene kits, a bicycle and resource information.

Three classes appear on the same page under the heading Classes, and they are Operation New Hope Ready 4 Release, financial education and construction education. One outcome figure appears with them, and no other count of participants, placements, releases or returns appears on the page in any form. The figure is entered in that list as a line item rather than as a result, and it reads in full: “GED Graduates (January-July 2026: 12).”

Under a heading reading “Community Partners Include” the page names thirteen organizations, which on its own wording is a list rather than a complete roster. They are Operation New Hope, Bill Lanie Construction, Florida DMV, Epic-Cure, Epic Behavioral Healthcare, St. Johns County Health and Human Services, St. Vincent DePaul, Home Again, the Homeless Coalition, UF HealthCare Connect, SMA HealthCare, Oxford House and the St. Johns County Clerk of Court.

The claim the page makes and the figure it does not carry

The opening paragraph states that the support the center provides “reduces recidivism and promotes long-term success.” The page carries no recidivism rate for the county jail and none for the people who go through the program. It offers no comparison between the two, and the rest of the page carries no measurement of any kind.

A jail return rate is the figure that would show whether the program does what its opening paragraph says it does. Neither the Sheriff’s Office nor the county publishes one anywhere the Tattler has been able to find. The newsroom will report that number when there is a document to read it from.

The page directs questions to a Re-Entry Program contact at 904.209.2424, and it carries a donation link routed through the St. Johns Sheriff’s Office Special Teams Association, which the page describes as a 501©(3) charitable nonprofit organization.

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