After Beary's election in 1992, Marianne Scholer, a former top-ranking woman in the Orange County Sheriff's Office was demoted and reclassified from major to lieutenant.

[2][3] In 2005, Beary had his aides use driver's license records to find the address of a journalist at the Orlando Sentinel who wrote an article critical of him, so that he could write her a letter in response.

[4][5] In 2004 and 2005, Beary was accused of corruption by a former subordinate turned political rival in the 2004 sheriff's race and a local television news station.

[citation needed] He is also the recipient of the Silver Beaver Award from the Central Florida Council of the Boy Scouts of America.

[citation needed] Beary was appointed by (former) Governor Jeb Bush to co-chair the Florida Domestic Security Task Force (Region V) on terrorism.

America Operations Advisory Committee[clarification needed] and is past chairman of the National Police Board of G.R.E.A.T.