The Detention Center
Eagle County Detention Facility (Eagle County Jail)
- Operated byEagle County Sheriff's Office
- Jail address0885 E Chambers Avenue, Eagle, CO 81631
- ServesCentral holding facility for all law enforcement agencies in Eagle County
- Beds / year builtNot found on ECSO site
Source: Eagle County Sheriff's Office — Detention Facility · checked 2026-08-24
Transparency rating
4/10Partial- ✓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
- ✓Phone, video and commissary rates
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 James van Beek
- Runs the jailYes — the Eagle County Sheriff's Office Detention Facility
- How the office is filledElected (first elected November 2014)
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Eagle County Sheriff's Office — Meet the Sheriff · checked 2026-08-24
The Judges
Colorado judges are appointed through a judicial nominating commission and then face retention elections; they are state judicial officers, not county officials. The 5th Judicial District also covers Clear Creek, Lake, and Summit counties.
5th Judicial District — Chief Judge
- Paul R. Dunkelman
5th Judicial District — District Court Judges (Eagle County)
- Rachel J. Olguin-Fresquez
- Jonathan Shamis
5th Judicial District — County Court Judges (Eagle County)
- Leslee K Balten
- Inga H. Causey
- The county's bond schedule
- Share of the jail population held pretrial
- Median time from booking to first appearance
Source: the state judiciary · checked 2026-08-24
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 →
Notes on the record
- Detention Facility FAQ page publishes an off-site video visitation rate of $0.39/minute; phone calls are described as collect or prepaid through Telewest but no per-minute phone rate is published; no commissary rate is published.
- Eagle County Jail has a Work Release partnership with Garfield County Criminal Justice Services (facility in Rifle, CO), but no rate schedule is published — not counted as a 'contracts' yes.
- No sheriff's office budget, PREA report, inspection result, or death-in-custody disclosure was found published on the county or sheriff's own site.
- Colorado Jail Standards Commission mandatory standards took effect July 1, 2026; no published result for Eagle County was found (expected, mandate is new).
- Three-member Board of County Commissioners, elected at large to four-year terms: Matt Scherr (District 1), Tom Boyd, Chair (District 2), Jeanne McQueeney (District 3). No dedicated jail tax was found published.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Eagle 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.
Names verified 2026-08-24 · dollars and outcomes still being gathered