Mike Beam has been appointed the chief alternative sentencing officer for Douglas County.

Working for Douglas County for the past 27 years, he was the youth facility manager with China Spring Youth Camp where he worked for the past eight years. Prior to that position he served as a special investigator in the District Attorney’s Office for seven years, and was also a deputy sheriff/investigator for 12 years.

Mike Beam

As the chief alternative sentencing officer, Beam will plan, organize and manage the activities of the Alternative Sentencing Department, which handles misdemeanor offenders who have been sentenced as an alternative to incarceration and have legal conditions of probation and parole.