HILLSBORO, Ohio — Highland County Sheriff’s Office dispatcher Jamie Burton has retired, closing out a career spent talking callers and first responders through some of the community’s toughest moments, the sheriff’s office said.
Sheriff Randy Sanders and the rest of the office marked Burton’s last day with a cake and a card-table sendoff, thanking him for being what the office called “the calm voice in the storm” for the deputies, firefighters and paramedics who depend on dispatch to get them where they’re needed.
Burton worked in the sheriff’s office’s Communications Division, the 911 call center that operates around the clock answering emergency and non-emergency calls and dispatching deputies, fire crews and EMS across the county. Dispatchers there are trained in emergency medical dispatch protocols, crisis communication and incident prioritization, tasked with keeping callers calm while relaying accurate information to responders racing to a scene.
The division is currently supervised by Lt. Vincent Antinore, who joined the sheriff’s office in 2012 and was promoted to oversee communications, detectives and the civil division in November 2024.
Sanders, a lifelong Highland County resident and Hillsboro High School graduate, took over as sheriff in 2025 after more than 40 years in law enforcement that included stints with the Hillsboro Police Department, the Highland County Sheriff’s Office, the Ross County Sheriff’s Office and command of the regional US 23 Major Crimes Task Force. In its retirement announcement, his office credited Burton with spending his career “answering the call and guiding others through their toughest moments,” and said he would be missed as he moves on to quieter nights and longer weekends.
The information contained in this story was obtained from the Highland County Sheriff’s Office.
