Calaveras County, California — The Jail, the Sheriff, the Judges

The Detention Center

Calaveras County Adult Detention Facility

Operated byCalaveras County Sheriff's Office, Custody Bureau
County publishes a jail nameYes — Calaveras County Adult Detention Facility
Address1045 Jeff Tuttle Drive, San Andreas, CA 95249
CapacityNot published on the facility page
Rated capacity176 beds

Source: Calaveras Sheriff's Office — Adult Detention Facility · checked 2026-08-23

Transparency rating

2/10Closed

✓The jail is named
✓Who is in custody
✗Beds and daily population — not published
✗What it costs taxpayers — not published
✗Deaths in custody — not published
✗PREA audits — not published
✗Independent inspection — not published
✗Who else it holds, and for how much — not published
✗How to post bond — not published
✗Phone, video and commissary rates — not published

This rates disclosure, not conduct — what Calaveras County publishes about a jail its taxpayers own, checked 2026-08-23. Nothing here says the jail is run well or badly. Every mark moves the moment the county posts the document.

The Building

You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.

Year builtNot found
Original costNot found
Paid for byNot found
BedsNot found

Since then

Not found

The Sheriff

Sheriff Rachelle Whiting

Also serves asNot stated on the Sheriff's site; the county publishes a separate Coroner site at https://coroner.calaverasgov.us/

Still needed

Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail

Source: Calaveras County Sheriff's Office · checked 2026-08-23

The Judges

Two-judge court; the two judges alternate the Presiding Judge role. Sanders began a two-year term as Presiding Judge on January 1, 2026.

Superior Court of California, County of Calaveras — Presiding Judge

David M. Sanders

Superior Court of California, County of Calaveras — Assistant Presiding Judge

Timothy S. Healy

Still needed

The county's bond schedule
Share of the jail population held pretrial
Median time from booking to first appearance

Source: the state judiciary · checked 2026-08-23

The County Commissioners

They pay for the jail. The sheriff runs it.

What they controlThe detention budget, the building itself, and the agreements that let other agencies rent its beds.
What they don'tDay-to-day operations. The sheriff is separately elected and answers to voters, not to the board.
The boardBoard of County Commissioners →
Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →

Notes on the record

The Citizen RIMS portal, linked from the Sheriff's own homepage, publishes inmates, arrests and daily bulletins.
The commissary page states only that 'the facility manager sets the selling prices of these items'; no price list, and no phone rates. Deposits run through SmartDeposit and Securus.
No bail or bond posting guidance appears on the detention facility page.
The county runs a separate Coroner website, so the sheriff-as-coroner arrangement common elsewhere in California is not confirmed here.
Board of Supervisors elected by district (five districts, District 1 through District 5).

What California law requires

We could not find a death-in-custody page for Calaveras County.

No page found

No in-custody death reporting page located. Checked https://sheriff.calaverasgov.us/, https://sheriff.calaverasgov.us/Detention-Facility, https://sheriff.calaverasgov.us/Press-Releases-Logs and https://sheriff.calaverasgov.us/Operations/Administration/Internal-Affairs, and web-searched the calaverasgov.us domain for '10008', 'AB 2761' and 'in-custody death'. The Sheriff's site has no transparency or custodial-death section. A page may exist somewhere we did not look. If you know of one, tell us and we will correct this.

—The agency with custodial responsibility
—The county where the death occurred
—The facility — and where inside it
—Race, gender and age
—The date of death
—Custodial status — awaiting arraignment, awaiting trial, or incarcerated
—Manner and means of death

California Penal Code § 10008, enacted by AB 2761 and in force since January 2023, requires the agency with custodial responsibility to post these seven items on its own website within ten days of a death in custody, and to update them within thirty days if the facts change. California is the only state in the country with this duty. Checked 2026-08-23. This records what is published, nothing more.

The record

1 people have died in the Calaveras County jail since 2024.

0 by suicide

1 illness or medical

1 deaths in all, 2016 onward

Deaths where the person had not been convicted of the charge holding them1 of 1

Most recent death on the state's record2024-11-10

Deaths: Texas Justice Initiative, the cleaned copy of the Texas Attorney General’s custodial death reports — the state’s own public index carries no cause of death and has not been refreshed since August 2025. Population: Texas Commission on Jail Standards monthly report. Counted, not estimated.

These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Calaveras County and what it costs the people who live here. Nationally, almost 77% of the people who died in local jails in 2019 had not been convicted of anything, and suicide was the leading single cause of those deaths (Bureau of Justice Statistics, Mortality in Local Jails, 2000–2019).

How much is your sheriff — and your judge — costing you?

Your VOTE is POWERFUL.

The sheriff who runs this jail is elected. So are the commissioners who pay for it.

The sheriff is on your ballot

The county elections office runs the polling place in Calaveras County and prints the ballot the sheriff’s name is on. Links from the California Secretary of State and vote.gov.

Names verified 2026-08-23 · dollars and outcomes still being gathered