No one can demote the sheriff, he’s elected. He can be recalled, but that is a very long process; and, that is not going to happen in Snohomish County.
I confabulated two different things. (I also got NW confused with NE!!)
It was the Snohomish Police chief that got reassigned due to comments regarding the armed citizens as “festive”.
The County Sheriff has a petition mounting against him to recall him for saying that he would not enforce Inslee’s mask rules.