Broomfield County

The Detention Center

Broomfield Detention Center

• Operated byBroomfield Police Department (Detention Division), overseen by Commanders Shawn Laughlin and David Walts
• Who runs itEnea Hempelmann — Chief of Police, City and County of Broomfield (oversees the Detention Center along with other county-related responsibilities). Reports to: No sheriff exists - the Broomfield Police Department, a department of the consolidated City and County of Broomfield under its Chief of Police, runs the Detention Center
• Address11600 Ridge Parkway, Broomfield, CO
• Beds218 (156 male / 54 female / 8 flex)
• Year built2001 (opened November 15, 2001)
• Original size/cost53,075 sq ft, $13.9 million (2001)
• Expansion2010: expanded to 79,325 sq ft (facility total), added capacity to 218 inmates, at a cost of $14.9 million
• Average daily population94.83 (2023), 72.47 (2024), 65 year-to-date (2025) per the 2026 Annual Budget
• ComplianceReceived Certificate of Compliance for HB21-1280 from the Colorado Division of Criminal Justice, April 5, 2022

Source: Broomfield Detention Center · checked 2026-08-24

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

This rates disclosure, not conduct — what Broomfield County publishes about a jail its taxpayers own, checked 2026-08-24. 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 built2001
• Original cost$13.9 million (2001 construction)
• Paid for byNot found (no specific bond/tax mechanism identified on the pages checked)
• Beds218 (80 at 2001 opening, expanded to 218 in 2010)

The Sheriff

Sheriff

• No sheriffBroomfield is a consolidated city and county created in 2001 with no sheriff's office; the Police Department under Chief Enea Hempelmann performs the county sheriff functions and operates the Broomfield Detention Center. The exact appointing authority for the Chief could not be confirmed - broomfield.org's police, detention center and city-and-county-manager pages would not load through WebFetch (repeated robots.txt fetch timeouts) and the Municode-hosted home rule charter renders only as JavaScript metadata - so the appointment line is left unstated rather than asserted.
• Runs the jailNo elected sheriff — Broomfield is a consolidated city and county with no sheriff's office
• Who runs it insteadBroomfield Police Department, which operates the Broomfield Detention Center

Source: Broomfield Police Department · checked 2026-08-24

The Judges

Colorado judges are initially appointed through a judicial nominating commission and then face retention elections; they are state judicial officers, not county officials. The 17th Judicial District also covers Adams County.

Source: the state judiciary · checked 2026-08-24

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 →