The Detention Center
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- Operated byBroward Sheriff's Office (arrest search on apps.sheriff.org shows people currently in BSO custody); individual facility names not confirmed on an opened page
- Custody searchBSO Arrest Search lists people currently in BSO custody with location, refreshed every 15 minutes
Source: Broward Sheriff's Office — Arrest Search · checked 2026-09-28
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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 Gregory Tony
- CurrentNamed in the FDLE Sheriff's Office Directory, 2 Sep 2025; not confirmed on a county page
- How the office is filledElected, four-year term
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: FDLE Sheriff's Office Directory (2 Sep 2025) · checked 2026-09-28
The Judges
Florida's circuit and county judges are elected state judicial officers, not county officials. A judge sets the first conditions of release at first appearance, within 24 hours of arrest.
Who sets bail in Broward County
- Circuit Court: Florida's Seventeenth Judicial Circuit, which serves Broward County alone (Fla. Stat. 26.021). Circuit judges are elected circuit-wide to six-year terms and hear felonies.
- County Court: the Broward County Court. County judges are elected countywide to six-year terms and hear misdemeanors.
- The county's bond schedule
- Share of the jail population held pretrial
- Median time from booking to first appearance
Source: the state judiciary · checked 2026-09-28
The Board of County Commissioners
They pay for the jail. In most counties the sheriff runs it; in some, the county does.
- What they controlThe sheriff's budget, including its separate line for corrections and detention: the sheriff submits it by June 1 and the board may amend, increase or reduce it (Fla. Stat. 30.49). The board also owns the jail building, and it decides by ordinance whether the sheriff or a county corrections department runs the jail (Fla. Stat. 951.061).
- What they don'tDay-to-day operations where the sheriff runs the jail. The sheriff is separately elected, and can appeal the board's budget cuts to the Governor and Cabinet sitting as the Administration Commission. No state agency inspects the jail; peer inspectors from other sheriffs' offices do.
- NoteCounty government site not opened.
- The boardBroward County Board of County Commissioners
- Where the jail money is decidedNot found
Notes on the record
- Only the BSO Arrest Search (apps.sheriff.org) could be opened. It lists people currently in BSO custody by arrest number, name, sex and location, refreshed every 15 minutes.
- The Department of Detention pages on www.sheriff.org could not be fetched (robots.txt / certificate failure), so the jail facilities, capacity, PREA, bond and fee pages could not be examined and the ten checks are not scored.
- What was tried: http://www.sheriff.org and https://www.sheriff.org/ refused; www.sheriff.org/DOD, /DOD/Pages/Default.aspx and the 2018 PREA annual report PDF blocked (robots.txt); testorg.sheriff.org blocked. One search used.
- State inspection/oversight: Florida requires every county jail to meet the Florida Model Jail Standards and to be inspected each year, but the inspectors come from other sheriffs' offices, not a state agency, and state law does not require the reports to be published.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Broward 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 is elected. So are the county commissioners who pay for the jail, and the judges who set bail.
Names verified 2026-09-28 · dollars and outcomes still being gathered