The two most-read posts on this site, by a wide margin, are the ones I wrote about Frank Sloup in 2023. Readers land on them every day from Google, and the comments and emails tend to ask the same three questions. Was he ever fired from Pinal County too? Did the show get cancelled? Did the Brady List ever catch up with him?

I went and looked. Here is the update nobody who read the originals is going to enjoy: Frank Sloup is not hiding, not fired, and not finished. He is thriving, on the taxpayer’s time and on his own time, and the system that was supposed to be embarrassed by his record has instead built its public image on top of it.

Still on the job

Sloup remains a deputy with the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office, assigned to the Traffic Unit, the same seat he held when I wrote about him in 2023. “Fridays With Frank” is still in weekly production. The episode posted in mid-October 2026 was number 222, featuring a teenager who had collected two speeding tickets in 24 hours, one of them from Maricopa PD the day before. Episode 220, a few weeks earlier, was a gun owner with illegal window tint. The series that began as a hands-free driving PSA in 2020 is now past 220 episodes, and PCSO’s Facebook audience is around a million followers.

He has also survived a change of management. Mark Lamb, the sheriff who hired him and made him the face of the office, left at the end of 2024. Ross Teeple took over in January 2025, and nothing about Frank’s role changed. Teeple’s office put Sloup out front at its April 2025 open house, listed on the county calendar as a public draw alongside the new sheriff himself. Amusing detail: the keyword tags on PCSO’s own October 2026 videos still say “sheriff mark lamb,” almost two years after Lamb left. The brand outlasted the boss, and nobody in the building has bothered to update the metadata.

His speaker biography adds the rest of the current job description. Per the consulting firm that books him, Sloup serves in the Traffic Unit and as an Assistant Sniper Team Leader and Operator on a large regional SWAT team. He has been a certified Drug Recognition Expert Instructor since 2007, is billed as a subject matter expert on drug and alcohol impairment, and has presented across the country on impaired driving enforcement. That is the working deputy, in his employer’s and his booking agent’s telling: traffic cop, SWAT sniper team leader, and national impairment instructor.

The second business

The badge is only half of what he is doing now. Sloup also runs a personal media business on top of it.

His personal YouTube channel, Frank Sloup, launched in December 2023. It now sits at roughly 573,000 subscribers and more than 1,100 videos. The format is not his own traffic stops. It is “Bodycam Breakdown” and “BodyCam Bingo,” Sloup in a studio chair reacting to other agencies’ body camera footage, with new uploads landing daily, sometimes several a day. Videos went up yesterday and the day before. The channel carries channel memberships, a merchandise store at FridaysWithFrank.com, a second store at BodycamBingo.com, and rotating sponsors whose ads run on a discount code you have probably already guessed: FRANK. Recent sponsors include Incogni and a colostrum company. He is, in other words, a full-time-scale content creator who also works traffic.

Then there is the speaking and podcast circuit. A firm called JL Wilkinson Consulting and Management books him for paid talks on leadership, teamwork, and communications. In September 2025 he sat for an hour on KTAR’s “Amazing Arizonans,” which the station later re-released as a favorite episode because, per the host, no guest had ever drawn a bigger response. He did Joe Pags in November 2025 and the Gold Shields podcast after that. In October 2025 and again this month, the Alpha Responder crew rode along with him on patrol, including a Labor Day weekend DUI task force during which a driver crashed into his patrol car. National profiles describe fans honking, waving, and asking for selfies during stops, and describe his approach, in the fan press’s words, as kindness and wit grounded in Stoicism and servant leadership.

Readers of my original posts will note that the clips have not changed. The delivery that I watched in 2023 and called patronizing, condescending, and allergic to discretion is the same delivery the fan press now celebrates as humor and heart. Same Frank. The audience just got bigger, and so did the revenue streams attached to him.

What has not changed

The record underneath all of this is exactly where it was in 2023.

AZPOST never suspended or revoked his certification. Both of his former agencies asked, in 2002 and again in 2017, and the board declined both times. His Brady listing, arising from the sustained MCSO findings that he altered a report date with White Out and gave misleading statements about it, stands as it stood. Sloup’s own account of that incident has not changed either. He acknowledges changing the date and calls it a minor error that was blown out of proportion during the era when MCSO operated under a federal consent decree. Reasonable people can weigh that explanation. It remains true that the explanation is for altering a government record and then giving conflicting stories about it, which is the one thing a cop’s credibility cannot survive on paper, whatever it survives on YouTube.

And because the internet is the internet, the false versions keep circulating too. In late 2024, rumors spread that Sloup had been fired from Pinal County. He had not, and my original article never claimed he was. Since then, AI-generated content farm stories have appeared claiming he was fired for excessive force, complete with invented video of him punching a handcuffed suspect. Also false. There is a real record here, documented in AZPOST files. It does not need embellishment, in either direction.

The verdict

In 2023 I explained how Scottsdale used to call it “Passing the Lemons”: an agency lets a problem officer resign in lieu of termination, leaves his certification intact, and passes him down the road. Frank Sloup is what the end of that road looks like when it works out perfectly for the lemon.

Two agencies separated him for misconduct, one of them after sustained dishonesty findings. The state board would not pull his certification. The third agency hired him, put a camera on him, and made him the most recognizable deputy in America. The new sheriff kept him. The public made him a star. He has since converted the fame into a personal channel with over half a million subscribers, merchandise, sponsors, and a speaking career teaching leadership and communications.

If you came here hoping the Brady List eventually mattered, I have bad news. It matters in a courtroom, where prosecutors have to disclose it. It does not matter to an algorithm, a booking agent, or a sheriff who needs a recruiting poster. And make no mistake, he is a recruiting poster: PCSO’s hiring pitch, deputies starting at $35.64 an hour, runs inside the descriptions of his videos. The lemon did not just survive the system. The lemon became the brand.

Sources

• Pinal County Sheriff’s Office, “FWF 222: You Just Got That Yesterday?!” YouTube, October 2026: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4gkuPpphSk
• Pinal County, Open House with Sheriff Ross Teeple and Deputy Frank Sloup, April 5, 2025: https://www.pinal.gov/Calendar.aspx?EID=2527
• JL Wilkinson Consulting and Management, Frank Sloup speaker profile: https://www.jlwilkinsonconsulting.com/frank_sloup
• Frank Sloup YouTube channel analytics (573K subscribers, 1.1K videos, joined December 22, 2023), via vling: https://vling.net/en/channel/UCPMjr0tVC-rSRnpD3c8ihkA/ai-insight
• KTAR, “Amazing Arizonans: Frank Sloup,” originally published September 3, 2025: https://podcast.app/favorite-episode-frank-sloup-pinal-county-deputy-and-social-media-sensation-e433187374
• Salem Podcast Network, “The Viral Cop: Deputy Frank Sloup Reveals the Secrets Behind Fridays With Frank,” November 15, 2025: https://salempodcastnetwork.com/podcasts/unshaken-unafraid-with-joe-pags/podcast/the-viral-cop-deputy-frank-sloup-reveals-the-secrets-behind-fridays-with-frank
• Alpha Responder, “We Rode With Frank Sloup on the Craziest Night of His Career,” October 2026: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXm2OaHnWWc