Tom Dominguez Email & Phone Number

Tom Dominguez joined the Orange County Sheriff’s Department in 1986, retiring in March, 2020. He spent many years as an investigator. His last assignment was as the full-time release president of the Association of Orange County Deputy Sheriffs (AOCDS), the largest and most influential law enforcement union in Orange County Ca. Under his leadership the organization grew to over 3800 sworn rank and file Peace Officers in the Sheriffs Department, District Attorney’s Office, Probation Department, and OC Parks. Prior to being elected AOCDS president, he served over 20 years on the union’s Board of Directors and 14 years as the Political Action Committee chairperson. Dominguez worked in the Central Men’s Jail, as a patrol deputy, a field training officer and in the Transit Police Services bureau. He became an investigator in 1996, serving in General Investigations and Homicide. He was assigned to the Bomb Squad for 16 years as an FBI Certified Bomb Technician, including 10 years full-time as a Bomb Technician, explosive detection canine handler, and explosive breacher. He was awarded the Medal of Courage from the Sheriff’s Department in 2006 for his actions during a bomb incident in the city of Anaheim. He has received extensive training throughout the United States and Israel. He has given expert testimony in the Superior Court of Orange County in explosive/bombing related criminal matters for the prosecution and has investigated bombing cases at the state and federal level.Dominguez was president of Lodge #18 of the California Fraternal Order of Police (FOP). He is also a member of the Orange County Peace Officers Association (OCPOA), International Association of Bomb Technicians and Investigators (IABTI), California Association of Tactical Officers (CATO), National Tactical Officers Association (NTOA) and National Sheriffs’ Association (NSA).He is the former Chair of the Political Action Committee for the California FOP State Lodge. He has served as president of the Southern California Alliance of Law Enforcement (SCALE), an organization representing over 30,000 professional law enforcement officers.