ALBANY — The Albany County Sheriff’s Office is moving out of the county courthouse to take space at the campus of the defunct College at Saint Rose.
The move means approximately 60 employees of the sheriff’s office, including Sheriff Craig Apple, will exit a building that has held offices for the sheriff’s department since the Eagle Street building was erected more than a century ago. The state’s Office of Court Administration will move into the courthouse space.
Apple says the executive staff has already relocated and by December, the agency’s civil unit, internal affairs units, and business office and other operations will move into 996 Madison Ave., the former home of the college’s William Randolph Hearst Center for Communications and Interactive Media. The department’s pistol permit unit and background investigation division has also moved into the building…