Support staff at the jail is completely overworked, extremely understaffed and underpaid - Anonymous employee Snohomish County Sheriff Employee Review

Best environment to work in. The staff is very cool and command staff is awesome

Salary is low as compared to other places

Great people with amazing personality

I moved from another state to work at the jail. I was out literally thousands of dollars to take this job. How long did it last? Not even two weeks. The second day of my second week I had a rare medication interaction. My high blood pressure medication interacted with my clonidine, a drug that decreases sweating. I nearly passed out on the floor in the jail, surrounded by inmates. I asked to be sent home because both drugs would be effective all day. After a harrowing drive home they called me to tell me to not bother coming back. Not a single problem had been brought up before that time. I was not as upset as I should have been. Because the night before I had watched as NINE deputies had beaten an 18 year old kid into submission because he refused to sit because he wanted to stand. I then watched them strap him into a restraint chair and state they were going to leave him in that chair all night long. My main field is actually psychiatric. I know for a fact that you cannot restrain someone that long BECAUSE IT IS ILLEGAL. Working in the psychiatric field you actually restrain people on a regular basis. You can only restrain someone LEGALLY for such a short period of time that it is counted in minutes, not hours. But who holds the cops on criminal charges when it's THEM breaking the law?!