STURTEVANT — The Village of Sturtevant no longer has a police department and is now using the Racine County Sheriff's Office for law enforcement services.

In a Facebook post over the weekend, the police department announced it would close on Sunday and transition service to the sheriff's deputies. The post has received hundreds of comments and shares from community members, some of whom were surprised by the news.

Kaitlyn Schlaefer, a village resident, said she learned about the closure through Facebook.

"We weren't notified directly or anything like that," Schlaefer said. "To find out the day of that they were no longer was kind of shocking."

Residents respond as Sturtevant closes police department, will use sheriff's office moving forward

For Schlaefer, the presence of a village-b

See Full Page