{"id":27328,"date":"2025-11-07T02:52:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T02:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/27328\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T02:52:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T02:52:21","slug":"danny-ceisler-ousts-fred-harran-in-bucks-county-sheriffs-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/27328\/","title":{"rendered":"Danny Ceisler ousts Fred Harran in Bucks County sheriff\u2019s race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic challenger Danny Ceisler unseated Republican incumbent Fred Harran in the Bucks County sheriff\u2019s race. Ceisler garnered more than 55% of the vote, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livevoterturnout.com\/ENR\/buckspaenr\/22\/en\/Frnpm_Index_22.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to the county\u2019s unofficial election results<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>Ceisler, 33, a U.S. Army veteran, moved to Bristol Borough in Bucks County in 2020. He told WHYY News that as sheriff, he plans to \u201ctake politics out of law enforcement, focus on nuts and bolts public safety, and end the extreme and ridiculous partnership with\u201d U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the swing county in the swing state,\u201d Ceisler said. \u201cICE was the big issue in this race, and voters overwhelmingly voted \u2026 to elect the candidate who wanted to end the ICE partnership. And that does send a message to law enforcement all over the country that partnering with ICE is a losing proposition.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>Harran, 61, made headlines in his first term as the county\u2019s chief law enforcement officer when he <a href=\"https:\/\/whyy.org\/articles\/ice-bucks-county-sheriff-immigrant-rights\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">signed a 287(g) collaboration agreement with U.S<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/whyy.org\/articles\/ice-bucks-county-sheriff-immigrant-rights\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">. Immigration and Customs Enforcement<\/a>. Harran could not be reached for comment.\n  <\/p>\n<p>A Court of Common Pleas judge <a href=\"https:\/\/whyy.org\/articles\/bucks-county-sheriff-ice-agreement-judge-ruling\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ruled against a bid to temporarily block the agreement<\/a>, finding the sheriff\u2019s agreement lawful despite plaintiffs\u2019 assertion that the collaboration could lead to racial profiling.\n<\/p>\n<p>Ceisler criticized Harran\u2019s decision to work with ICE, <a href=\"https:\/\/whyy.org\/articles\/2025-bucks-county-sheriff-election\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">telling WHYY News ahead of the election<\/a> that the move \u201cactively harms public safety.\u201d\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Democratic challenger Danny Ceisler unseated Republican incumbent Fred Harran in the Bucks County sheriff\u2019s race. Ceisler garnered more&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[197,1383,28,30,29],"class_list":["post-27328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-bucks-county","tag-elections-2025","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}