The Detention Center
Dixie County Sheriff's Office Detention Facility
- Operated byDixie County Sheriff's Office
- Jail address214 NE 351 Highway, Suite L, Cross City, FL 32628
- VisitationHomewav video-chat visitation
- MailPostcards only
- Jail AdministratorCaptain Timothy Roberts, Jail Administrator
Source: Dixie County Sheriff's Office — Detention Facility · checked 2026-09-28
Transparency rating
1/10Closed- ✓The jail is named
- ✗Who is in custody — not published
- ✗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 — 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 Darby Butler
- Runs the jailYes — the Dixie County Sheriff's Office operates the detention facility in Cross City
- 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: Dixie County Sheriff's Office — Detention Facility · 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 Dixie County
- Circuit Court: Florida's Third Judicial Circuit, which also serves Columbia, Hamilton, Lafayette, Madison, Suwannee and Taylor (Fla. Stat. 26.021). Circuit judges are elected circuit-wide to six-year terms and hear felonies.
- County Court: the Dixie 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 found or not reachable; agendas/minutes URL not confirmed.
- The boardDixie County Board of County Commissioners
- Where the jail money is decidedNot found
Notes on the record
- The sheriff's jail pages are on dixiesheriff.org (page titles 'Detention Facility – Dixie County Sheriff's Office', 'Jail Information – Dixie Sheriff'); they name Sheriff Darby Butler and the Jail Administrator, Captain Timothy Roberts.
- The old lead dixiecountysheriff.com opened (Cross City, Florida) and profiles 'Sheriff Darby Butler (R)', but no links could be read from it; it was not used for checks.
- Detention pages give address, first appearance within 24 hours, collect-call hours, postcard-only mail and Homewav video visitation, but no fee rates, bond-posting steps, roster, capacity or PREA material.
- The dixiesheriff.org home page could not be opened, so its menu (possible inmate search, PREA, budget) could not be checked; checks rest on the two jail pages only.
- No county budget found: county government site could not be located (dixiecounty.org refused; www.dixiecounty.org is a recreation guide; dixiecountyfl.gov does not resolve).
- What was tried: dixiecountysheriff.com/jail and /sitemap.xml (403); https://dixiesheriff.org/ and https://dixiecounty.org/ (PROVENANCE_REQUIRED).
- 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 Dixie 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