Account Clerk I (Property)

The Hamilton County Sheriff's Office (HCSO), founded in 1803 is the 3rd largest sheriff's office in Ohio. HCSO has approximately 900 employees dedicated to ensuring the safety of nearly 1 million residents who call Hamilton County Home.

If you wake up with a heart and mind to serve your community, we're looking for you. Serving in the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office can be the most fulfilling career opportunity you will ever experience.

In a secure environment, our Account Clerks:

Receive, inventory, and secure property received from inmates or arrestees; maintain strict chain of custody records; provide a secondary search of property for contraband; maintain accurate records retention and record-keeping systems; perform various clerical and administrative functions in support of agency; scan and index medical and property forms; receive and secure currency; answer phones.

Pull and release property and clothing; retrieve property in answer to inmate requests; inventory and destroy property when applicable.

Testify for court proceedings in response to subpoenas; document and coordinate the transfer of articles from property to a requesting department (i.e. criminal evidence, CCW license, medications, prescriptions, and legal documents); confiscate counterfeit money to ensure that it is removed from circulation.

This is a 3rd shift position, 2:30pm - 11:00pm. The person would work 4 days on and 2 days off, rotating weekends. 

As a law enforcement agency, we conduct an extensive background check process that includes the following:

• Criminal (BCI/FBI), traffic, and civil records check
• Reference check
• Computer Voice Stress Analyzer
• Social Security and address verification
• Military check
• Education verification
• Pre-employment drug screen/physical/Lift Test