The Detention Center
Moffat County Jail, in the Moffat County Public Safety Center
- Operated byMoffat County Sheriff's Office
- How the jail is namedThe county's 2026 budget states the Jail Fund 'accounts for the operations of the County Jail and maintenance for the Public Safety Center'
- Jail addressNot found on the county's own site
- BedsNot found on the county's own site
- What was triedhttps://moffatcounty.colorado.gov/government/elected-officials/county-sheriff — the county sheriff page carries only contact details and links offsite; https://www.moffatcountysheriff.com/ redirects (302) to https://crimewatch.net/us/co/moffat/sheriff, a third-party hosting platform that could not be opened
Source: Moffat County 2026 Budget · checked 2026-08-24
Transparency rating
2/10Closed- ✓The jail is named
- ✗Who is in custody — not published
- ✗Beds and daily population — not published
- ✓What it costs taxpayers
- ✗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
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 Chip McIntyre
- Runs the jailYes — the Moffat County Sheriff is the county jailer; the county budget's Jail Fund covers County Jail operations and Public Safety Center maintenance
- How the office is filledElected county sheriff; the county's elected officials page records McIntyre as appointed to complete the 2023–2026 term of former sheriff KC Hume
- Sheriff's Office address800 W. 1st St., Suite 100, Craig, CO 81625
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Moffat County — Elected Officials / County 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. In Colorado the County Court judge normally sets bond at first appearance.
14th Judicial District Court — Chief Judge
- Brittany A. Schneider
14th Judicial District Court — District Judges
- Billy-George Hertzke
- Mary C. Hoak
Moffat County Court — County Court Judge
- James Hesson
- 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
- The county names its jail only inside budget documents. The Moffat County Sheriff's Office does not maintain a jail page on the county's own moffatcounty.colorado.gov domain; the sheriff's link on the county site points to moffatcountysheriff.com, which redirects to a third-party CrimeWatch page that could not be opened and would not count as the county publishing in any case.
- Budget check: the county publishes full annual budgets, and the 2026 budget shows a Jail Fund of $3,823,593 for 2026 against $3,432,122 for 2025, an increase of $391,471, attributed to utilities, maintenance and wages.
- Deaths check: no death-in-custody reporting was found on the county's own site. Colorado counties report jail deaths quarterly to the state Division of Criminal Justice under CRS 17-26-118 (HB19-1297), published on the state Jail Data Dashboard at https://ors.colorado.gov/ors-jaildata — that is the state publishing, not the county.
- Roster, capacity, bond, fees, PREA and contracts: nothing on the county's own domain.
- Board of County Commissioners — three members by district. Current members: Tony Bohrer (District 1), Melody Villard (District 2), Donald Broom (District 3). Regular BOCC meetings are held the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of the month.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Moffat 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