Meet Tracy

My name is Tracy Story, and I am proud to say that I was born and raised right here in Halifax County. I am an Unaffiliated candidate for the office of Sheriff.

Tracy Story for Halifax County Sheriff

Educational Accomplishments

High School Equivalency GED Halifax Community College 1995

Leadership and Management Training Seminars 98-2008

Criminal Justice Certificate Nash Community College 2024

Tracy Story was born and raised in Halifax County. He earned a GED from Halifax Community College and a criminal justice certificate from Nash Community College.

ROANOKE RAPIDS — Businessman Tracy T. Story is throwing his hat in the race for Halifax County sheriff in 2026.

Owner of Discount Automotive and Tire, Spartan Elite 365 and founder of the nonprofit The Rewritten Story Foundation, the Halifax County native told The Herald on Friday why he was making an official announcement early.

Businessman Tracy Story announces 2026 Halifax County sheriff run

In 2020, Tracy became a deputy at the Halifax County Sheriff’s Office until 2022. Tracy was asked about Sheriff Tyree Davis, who won the election in 2022.

Businessman Tracy announces 2026 Halifax County sheriff run

Tracy owns Discount Automotive and Tire and Spartan Elite 365 and founded the nonprofit The Rewritten Story Foundation. He previously served as a deputy at the Halifax County Sheriff’s Office.

2026 North Carolina General Election

Crime Reduction

My team and I will implement procedures and methods to impact high crime areas. We will partner with every police department, mayor, city council person and others to assist in every proactive approach possible. We will work alongside every citizen to improve neighborhoods and our overall quality of life. There will be no communities in our county that we will stay out of.

Public Safety & Crime Strategy

We will start the proactive approach of partnering with great programs like Boys 2 Men and other community minded programs around the county that focus on uplifting and encouraging our kids before the gangs and negatives of society do. This proactive engagement will not only introduce these kids to law enforcement in a positive setting but will also show them we have a lot more in common than they may have thought. Working to help promote, fundraise and facilitate these programs is a must to motivate and empower our future generations of respectful and productive citizens!

We will bring back Community Crime Watch Programs that currently don’t exist. We will have a coordinator that will conduct county wide meetings, facilitate information sharing between the Sheriff’s Office and the public, provide no cost security assessments to homes, churches, schools and businesses and promote valuable programs like Crime Stoppers. In past administrations, this program provided proven crime prevention and led to many arrests.

SROs & School Safety

“There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.” This quote from Nelson Mandela couldn’t be more accurate. With that said, it’s extremely important to me that every child has the opportunity to learn and grow without any fears of harm. No school, private or public, will ever be refused protection under my watch. Funding will not stand in the way of protecting our babies. Additionally, we will have strategic plans for every school along with offering training for teachers and school personnel on what to do in case of an emergency.

Did you know there are statutes that allow a volunteer SRO program in North Carolina? These are actually already lawful and legal ways to increase safety and lower cost. These programs are currently not being utilized. These men and women would be in addition to SROs that are currently in schools. At a time when only one school resource officer may be tasked with protecting and responding to up to 900 students and faculty, the need for additional personnel is paramount. Every legal avenue and resource available should be used in the protection of our children.

We are also going to work towards expanding on this program by using unarmed personnel in schools that will offer an increased deterrence. More security in place will allow them to assist school personnel and SROs which lessens the likelihood of serious injury or death. This is how you reduce the cost of safety that continuously burdens tax payers and school boards all while increasing the amount of personnel on site. This expansion will be introduced to legislators as another cost efficient way of making schools even safer.

Animal Safety, Enforcement & New Volunteer Program

Since starting this journey, one of my goals is to join the current Animal Control with the Sheriff’s Office. This has many benefits, but most importantly, it gives agents the backing of the Sheriff and will serve greatly in the enforcing of laws pertaining to animals. This is already being done throughout many counties in North Carolina by many Sheriffs.

Let me also be clear about animal abuse and illegal fighting of animals, I simply will not tolerate it! We will investigate every tip, we will pursue those individuals and we will prosecute them to the full extent of the law.

We will work extremely hard to involve legal seizure methods against drug dealers, gangs and others. Those funds will be reinvested back into our department to serve the needs for improved safety items and other updated necessities for our office. When you bring your own lunch money, you don’t have to worry about eating!

Leadership, Accountability & Operations

I will also look into inter-local agreements for safety services. The last thing towns that are struggling need is additional cost burdening their budgets as they look to grow. I'll meet with county and town leaders to make sure we are doing what is best for our citizens and look to provide as much low to no cost mutual aid as we can while staffing shortages at police departments are filled.

Plans to partner with local governments, police departments, and residents on proactive strategies in high-crime areas.

Plans to partner with youth programs to encourage young people before they become involved in gangs.

Plans to restore community crime-watch programs, including public meetings, information sharing, security assessments, and Crime Stoppers promotion.

Plans to provide protection to all public and private schools, with school emergency plans and training for school personnel.

Proposes volunteer school resource officers and unarmed school personnel to supplement existing school safety staffing.

Plans to integrate animal control with the sheriff's office to strengthen enforcement of animal-related laws.

Pledges to investigate tips on animal abuse and illegal animal fighting and pursue prosecution.

Plans to use legal asset-seizure methods against drug dealers and gangs and reinvest proceeds in sheriff's office safety needs.

Plans to pursue agreements among local governments for safety services and low- or no-cost mutual aid.

- Plans to partner with local governments, police departments, and residents on proactive strategies in high-crime areas.
- Plans to partner with youth programs to encourage young people before they become involved in gangs.
- Plans to restore community crime-watch programs, including public meetings, information sharing, security assessments, and Crime Stoppers promotion.
- Plans to provide protection to all public and private schools, with school emergency plans and training for school personnel.
- Proposes volunteer school resource officers and unarmed school personnel to supplement existing school safety staffing.
- Plans to integrate animal control with the sheriff's office to strengthen enforcement of animal-related laws.
- Pledges to investigate tips on animal abuse and illegal animal fighting and pursue prosecution.
- Plans to use legal asset-seizure methods against drug dealers and gangs and reinvest proceeds in sheriff's office safety needs.
- Plans to pursue agreements among local governments for safety services and low- or no-cost mutual aid.

Public Safety

The expectations will be extremely high, but the rewards will make the work worth it. We will promote those who work hard and go above and beyond to serve our citizens and our team, not those that have sycophant tendencies.

BLET applicants will be welcomed and sponsored by our office. We want to cultivate home town folks who are passionate about being a law enforcement officer. Using every avenue, like visiting our High Schools, Early College Programs and Community College for recruitment and supply those young men and women with the information they need to decide if they’d like to join our team.

In my opinion, jail staff have been treated unfairly. Even when raises were asked for, they were again treated unfairly. The Sheriff’s Office requested “15% across the board for patrol”, excluding the jail staff by only requesting 8% for those men and women. Does the jail staff, that also has retention issues, live with a lesser cost of living? I don’t agree with this philosophy. That jail is not only one of the primary responsibilities of the Sheriff, but it's an integral part of our justice system.

Professional Accountability and Transparency

This is another of great importance because we are funded by your tax dollars. As much as everyone enjoys talking about things that went right we also have to remember that we answer to the tax payer about more than just the good. When mistakes happen or if we have a learning moment some things we cannot legally talk about, but things we can talk about we will. Proactive means getting out in front of things, reactive means we are behind and playing catch up. We will be as proactive with information and communication as the law allows us to be.

Plans to sponsor Basic Law Enforcement Training applicants and recruit prospective officers through local schools and colleges.

Opposes requesting smaller pay raises for jail staff than for patrol staff.

Plans to communicate proactively about sheriff's office mistakes and other matters when legally permitted.

- Plans to sponsor Basic Law Enforcement Training applicants and recruit prospective officers through local schools and colleges.
- Opposes requesting smaller pay raises for jail staff than for patrol staff.
- Plans to communicate proactively about sheriff's office mistakes and other matters when legally permitted.

Jail Management

We will clear a main wall in the Sheriff’s office and post family pictures of those murdered and missing. We will make sure that no one in that office regardless of rank will be able to forget them. We will treat them all as if they were our own family members. To help further those cases, we will implement a Justice Team of current law enforcement professionals, former law enforcement professionals and a wide range of other volunteers whose main mission is to track down leads, stay in contact with and advise victim’s families along with using all legal methods available to us to bring justice and closure to the families. I believe these cases deserve a lot more attention, and if I become your Sheriff, they will get just that!

Our Community Plan
Mental Health Matters

We will start handling offenders with a different scope. Using proactive measures to address mental health as opposed to just “lock em up” only to be released with the same mental issues they had when they arrived. A new and improved way of classification with the offenders will help identify those that need more than just time in jail or prison. We have to break the cycle and stop the rotating door of our current justice system.

Mental Health

I plan to reach out to multiple sources in the Mental Health system to explore options of drug abuse treatment and mental health assessments. Making sure our DAs and Judges are aware of each situation with the hope of mandatory treatment sentences as opposed to just jail time. Stopping these issues in their tracks and breaking these habits is key!

Having an actual program led by local church leaders that's on a regular weekly schedule to mentor those who want to learn the word of God. This type of outreach is just one example of the powerful and impactful type of interventions we will implement.

This is why my team and I will work to collect hard data that supports the need of going back to our own judiciary district or at least with only 1 county (Northampton). We will present this to our elected leaders and keep you, the tax paying citizen, in the loop as we work to accomplish this goal. This will dramatically improve the judicial system here locally and reduce cost across the board.

New Judicial District

Plans to create a volunteer Justice Team to pursue leads in murder and missing-person cases and support victims' families.

Plans to use offender classification, mental-health assessments, and treatment options rather than relying solely on incarceration.

Plans to offer weekly church-led mentoring for incarcerated people who want to participate.

Plans to collect data and ask elected leaders to establish a Halifax-focused judicial district, potentially shared only with Northampton County.

- Plans to create a volunteer Justice Team to pursue leads in murder and missing-person cases and support victims' families.
- Plans to use offender classification, mental-health assessments, and treatment options rather than relying solely on incarceration.
- Plans to offer weekly church-led mentoring for incarcerated people who want to participate.
- Plans to collect data and ask elected leaders to establish a Halifax-focused judicial district, potentially shared only with Northampton County.

Criminal Justice

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- The sheriff is responsible for enforcing the law, managing security in jails and courtrooms. They also oversee daily conditions of the jail and inmates in custody and serve legal documents such as warrants and eviction notices. Their ultimate responsibility is to protect the community. 

Responsible for enforcing the law and overseeing jails. 