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Flournoy often received commendations for his work in law enforcement from [[J. Edgar Hoover]], director of the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]]. The defunct ''[[Shreveport Journal]]'' afternoon newspaper referred to Flournoy, accordingly, "A well-known [[conservative]] and a spokesman for patriotism, Sheriff Flournoy spent his entire adult life striving to improve his department in all fields of duty and speaking out against anything or any group which he felt posed a threat to Americanism. The sheriff and his department, ranked among the best and were often copied by other similar law agencies ... he was also recognized for his well-known work with youth, including his Junior Rifle Program, nationally acclaimed.<ref name=sjobit/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://jeffersonian.name/g1962/G0962.pdf|title=Junior Rifle Clubs – Action, not Words|publisher=''Guns'' ([[magazine]])|date=September 1962|author=Robert Dyment|pages=31, 48|accessdate=September 26, 2014}}</ref>

Flournoy often received commendations for his work in law enforcement from [[J. Edgar Hoover]], director of the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]]. The defunct ''[[Shreveport Journal]]'' afternoon newspaper referred to Flournoy, accordingly, "A well-known [[conservative]] and a spokesman for patriotism, Sheriff Flournoy spent his entire adult life striving to improve his department in all fields of duty and speaking out against anything or any group which he felt posed a threat to Americanism. The sheriff and his department, ranked among the best and were often copied by other similar law agencies ... he was also recognized for his well-known work with youth, including his Junior Rifle Program, nationally acclaimed.<ref name=sjobit/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://jeffersonian.name/g1962/G0962.pdf|title=Junior Rifle Clubs – Action, not Words|publisher=''Guns'' ([[magazine]])|date=September 1962|author=Robert Dyment|pages=31, 48|accessdate=September 26, 2014}}</ref>

Flournoy was originally a [[segregation]]ist though he later hired the first [[African-American]] deputies in Caddo Parish. When state Senator William Monroe "Willie" Rainach (1913-1978) of Claiborne Parish telephoned Flournoy to inform him that one of the African-American deputies had spoken in support of racial integration, Flournoy dismissed the deputy.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QnQbw5EyPREC&pg=PA210&lpg=PA210 |author=Adam Fairclough|title= Race and Democracy: The Civil Rights Struggle in Louisiana, 1915–1972|location=Athens, [[Georgia]]|publisher=[[University of Georgia]] Press|edition=2nd |date=1995|ISBN=0-8203-3114-7}}</ref> In 1964, Flournoy, a [[Democratic Party|Democrat]], broke party lines to endorse the [[Republican Party|Republican]] [[U.S.  Senator]] [[Barry  Goldwater]] of [[Arizona]] for the presidency in the [[general election]] against [[Lyndon B. Johnson]]. Joining Flournoy in support of Goldwater, who spoke in Shreveport on September 17, were former Governors Sam Jones and [[Robert F. Kennon]], State Senator Jackson Beauregard Davis (1918-2016) of Shreveport, Louisiana Secretary of State Wade Omer Martin, Jr. (1911-1990), Lieutenant Governor Clarence C. "Taddy" Aycock  (1915-1987) of Franklin in St. Mary Parish, and the then the long-term [[mayor]] of [[Monroe, Louisiana|Monroe]], William Lorenzo "Jack" Howard (1921-2004).<ref>''Shreveport Journal,'' September 17, 1964 (afternoon paper), p. 1.</ref>

Flournoy was originally a [[segregation]]ist though he later hired the first [[African-American]] deputies in Caddo Parish. When state Senator William Monroe "Willie" Rainach (1913-1978) of Claiborne Parish, an unsuccessful gubernatorial contender in 1959, telephoned Flournoy to inform him that one of the African-American deputies had spoken in support of racial integration, Flournoy dismissed the deputy.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QnQbw5EyPREC&pg=PA210&lpg=PA210 |author=Adam Fairclough|title= Race and Democracy: The Civil Rights Struggle in Louisiana, 1915–1972|location=Athens, [[Georgia]]|publisher=[[University of Georgia]] Press|edition=2nd |date=1995|ISBN=0-8203-3114-7}}</ref> In 1964, Flournoy, a [[Democratic Party|Democrat]], broke party lines to endorse the [[Republican Party|Republican]] [[U.S.  Senator]] [[Barry  Goldwater]] of [[Arizona]] for the presidency in the [[general election]] against [[Lyndon B. Johnson]]. Joining Flournoy in support of Goldwater, who spoke in Shreveport on September 17, were former Governors Sam Jones and [[Robert F. Kennon]], State Senator Jackson Beauregard Davis (1918-2016) of Shreveport, Louisiana Secretary of State Wade Omer Martin, Jr. (1911-1990), Lieutenant Governor Clarence C. "Taddy" Aycock  (1915-1987) of Franklin in St. Mary Parish, and the then the long-term [[mayor]] of [[Monroe, Louisiana|Monroe]], William Lorenzo "Jack" Howard (1921-2004).<ref>''Shreveport Journal,'' September 17, 1964 (afternoon paper), p. 1.</ref>

In 1947, Flournoy hired [[Harold Terry]] as a deputy, later the manager of the Junior Rifle Program and an expert marksman. Terry himself was sheriff for a single term from 1976 to 1980.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140924045040/http://www.oralhistory.ws/tpl/index3.php?view=profile&client=5031|title=Harold M. Terry|publisher=Oralhistory.w |accessdate=September 19, 2014}}</ref>

In 1947, Flournoy hired [[Harold Terry]] as a deputy, later the manager of the Junior Rifle Program and an expert marksman. Terry himself was sheriff for a single term from 1976 to 1980.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140924045040/http://www.oralhistory.ws/tpl/index3.php?view=profile&client=5031|title=Harold M. Terry|publisher=Oralhistory.w |accessdate=September 19, 2014}}</ref>