{"id":420,"date":"2022-05-08T08:22:29","date_gmt":"2022-05-08T15:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/?p=420"},"modified":"2022-05-08T13:34:02","modified_gmt":"2022-05-08T20:34:02","slug":"leikauf-ready-for-sheriffs-duties-in-el-dorado-county-mountain-democrat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/05\/08\/leikauf-ready-for-sheriffs-duties-in-el-dorado-county-mountain-democrat\/","title":{"rendered":"Leikauf Ready for Sheriff\u2019s Duties in El Dorado County &#8211; Mountain Democrat"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>(Thomas Frey, Mountain Democrat \/ Photo Krysten Kellum)<\/pre>\n<p>PLACERVILLE, Calif. \u2014 Jeff Leikauf reported for his first day of work with the El Dorado County Sheriff\u2019s Office in 1990, just 21 years old at the time. His first assignment was as a correctional officer at the South Lake Tahoe jail.<\/p>\n<p>Leikauf told the Mountain Democrat he remembers wondering what it would be like to be the sheriff of El Dorado County.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the craziest thing because I did have that thought on my very first day,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Thirty-two years later Leikauf, 53, a husband and father of four, is readying himself for a June 7 election where he is unopposed to serve as sheriff. He said he aims to serve more than one term.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love serving something that\u2019s bigger than myself,\u201d the Cameron Park resident shared. \u201cIt\u2019s my life\u2019s work and I\u2019ve always been a proud member of the Sheriff\u2019s Office. I\u2019ve always been proud to take that car home and park it in my driveway and represent our agency.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tahoedailytribune.com\/news\/leifauf-ready-for-sheriffs-duties-in-el-dorado-county\/?utm_source=InEDC&amp;utm_medium=News&amp;utm_campaign=Placerville&amp;utm_content=Eyeballs-via-Placerville-Newswire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Jeff Leikauf, a Cameron Park resident and who started as \r\na correctional officer in the South Lake Tahoe Jail, \r\nis unopposed in his bid for El Dorado County sheriff.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Leikauf, a Cameron Park resident is unopposed in his bid for El Dorado County sheriff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":""},"categories":[8,4,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":423,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions\/423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}