The Detention Center
Weld County North Jail Complex (Weld County Jail)
- Operated byWeld County Sheriff's Office — Detentions Division
- Jail address2110 O Street, Greeley, CO 80631
- Phone(970) 356-4015; toll-free 800-436-9276; Bond Desk (970) 400-3921
- CapacityCounty states the jail "will soon expand its capacity to approximately 1,300 inmates"; the Sheriff's jail page says each housing pod holds up to 80 inmates
- Population reportingSheriff publishes searchable jail reports of arrest and release data updated hourly (apps.weld.gov/sheriff/jailreports/), plus a Daily Arrests application
- Bond postingCash and surety bonds accepted; online bond posting via Genesis eBonds; the CRS 16-4-102 notice that bond fees, booking fees and other fees never need to be paid to secure release is published
- Published ratesRemote video visits $0.20 per minute; onsite visits free; $4 fee for Access SecureDeposits deposits; inmate phone calls via AdvancePay collect accounts with 15-minute call limits
- PREASheriff's jail page states a zero-tolerance policy on sexual abuse and harassment and names a PREA Coordinator; no audit report published
- Year built / costNot found on the county or sheriff site
- What was triedhttps://www.weldsheriff.com/Divisions/Jail ; https://www.weldsheriff.com/Home/Do-it-online/Jail-Information ; https://www.weldsheriff.com/Divisions/Contact-Us ; https://www.weldsheriff.com/Divisions/Administration ; https://www.weld.gov/Government/Departments/Finance-and-Administration/Budget
Source: Weld County Sheriff's Office — Jail Division · checked 2026-08-24
Transparency rating
6/10Partial- ✓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 — 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
- BedsApproximately 1,300 after the expansion the county describes as forthcoming; each housing pod holds up to 80
Since then
- County page states the jail "will soon expand its capacity to approximately 1,300 inmates"; no cost, funding source or completion date is published on the pages opened
The Sheriff
Sheriff Steve Reams
- Runs the jailYes — the county states the Sheriff "is responsible for the operation of the Weld County Jail"
- How the office is filledElected county sheriff; the county lists Sheriff among its 14 elected positions
- TermCounty page states he has served since January 1, 2022, with a term running through December 31, 2026
- UndersheriffDonnie Patch
- Detentions contactsCaptain Matthew Turner; Lieutenant Mark Pollard; Lieutenant Kevin Halloran
- ScaleOversees more than 450 employees; the Sheriff's Office says the Detentions Division is its largest entity in personnel and annual funding
Still needed
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Weld County — Sheriff (elected officials) · checked 2026-08-24
The Judges
Colorado judges are appointed through a judicial nominating commission and then face retention elections. District and county court judges are state judicial officers, not county officials. Weld County is the 19th Judicial District; the county court judges are typically the bench that sets bond at first appearance. The elected District Attorney also represents the 19th Judicial District.
19th Judicial District — District Court Chief Judge
- Julie Hoskins
19th Judicial District — District Court Judges
- Allison J. Esser
- Audrey Galloway
- Troy Hause
- Anita Jain Crowther
- Timothy Kerns
- Annette Kundelius
- Sean J. Lacefield
- Shannon Lyons
- Kimberly B. Schutt
- Todd Taylor
- Vincente G. Vigil
Weld County Court — County Court Judges
- John Briggs
- Renee Sandoval Doak
- Michele Meyer
- Dana Nichols
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 2026-08-24
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 Weld County Sheriff's Office runs its own website at weldsheriff.com; weld.gov's Justice Administration page for the Sheriff redirects there, so it is treated as the county's own publication.
- Budget recorded as yes: the county's Finance and Administration Budget page publishes a 2026 Final Budget Book (PDF, 19MB), and the Sheriff's Administration page identifies Detentions as the largest division by annual funding. The specific detention line item could not be extracted because the county web server blocked direct download of the budget book.
- PREA recorded as no: the jail page publishes a zero-tolerance statement and a PREA Coordinator contact, but no PREA audit report or audit result was found.
- No death-in-custody disclosure was found on the county or sheriff site. Colorado's state Jail Data Dashboard (https://ors.colorado.gov/ors-jaildata) publishes jail population and in-custody death data under CRS 17-26-118, but that is the state publishing, not the county.
- No contract or per-diem rate for holding other agencies' prisoners was found on the county or sheriff site.
- https://www.weld.gov/Government/County-Data/Commissioner-Records is blocked by the site's robots rules; the Public Meetings page was used instead, which links agendas and the Laserfiche Commissioner Record Search for minutes.
- Weld County is a home rule county under a Home Rule Charter. Five-member Board of County Commissioners: Scott James (District 2, Chair), Jason Maxey (District 1, Pro-Tem), Lynette Peppler (District 3), Kevin Ross (At-Large), Perry Buck (At-Large). The Board meets 9:00 a.m. each Monday and Wednesday in the Commissioners' Assembly Room, Administration Building, 1150 O Street, Greeley. Weld also has a separately elected five-member County Council. No dedicated jail sales-tax levy was found; the jail is funded through the county budget.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Weld 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