Flagler County, Florida — The Jail, the Sheriff, the Judges

The Detention Center

Sheriff Perry Hall Inmate Detention Facility (Flagler County Inmate Facility)

Operated byFlagler County Sheriff's Office
Jail address1002 Justice Lane, Bunnell, FL 32110
Capacity400 inmates in 15 housing units
VisitationVideo visitation center at 1001 Justice Lane
FY 2025-26 county budgetSheriff $48,041,392 (no separate detention line shown)
Jail AdministratorDaniel Engert, Division Chief, Court & Detention Services

Source: Flagler County Sheriff's Office — Court & Detention Services · checked 2026-09-28

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
✗Independent inspection — not published
✗Who else it holds, and for how much — not published
✓How to post bond
✗Phone, video and commissary rates — not published

This rates disclosure, not conduct — what Flagler County publishes about a jail its taxpayers own, checked 2026-09-28. Nothing here says the jail is run well or badly. Every mark moves the moment the county posts the document.

The Building

You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.

Year builtNot found
Original costNot found
Paid for byNot found
Beds400

Since then

Not found

The Sheriff

Sheriff Rick Staly

Runs the jailYes — the Flagler County Sheriff's Office Court & Detention Services division runs the Sheriff Perry Hall Inmate Detention Facility
How the office is filledElected, four-year term

Still needed

Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail

Source: Flagler County Sheriff's Office — home page · 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 Flagler County

Circuit Court: Florida's Seventh Judicial Circuit, which also serves Putnam, St. Johns and Volusia (Fla. Stat. 26.021). Circuit judges are elected circuit-wide to six-year terms and hear felonies.
County Court: the Flagler County Court. County judges are elected countywide to six-year terms and hear misdemeanors.

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 2026-09-28

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.
The boardFlagler County Board of County Commissioners →
Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →

Notes on the record

Sheriff's site is now flaglersheriff.com (Flagler County, Florida); Sheriff Rick Staly named on the home page.
Court & Detention Services page: Sheriff Perry Hall Inmate Detention Facility, 400 inmates in 15 housing units, Division Chief Daniel Engert.
Roster: sheriff's linked inmate search is titled 'Flagler County Sheriff Inmate Search' and has an 'In Custody' filter.
Bond page: bonds and cash accepted 24 hours at the detention facility; cash or surety bond; credit card via Access Corrections.
PREA page posts the 2025 PREA Annual Report.
County FY 2025-26 adopted budget shows Sheriff $48,041,392; no separate detention line.
Sheriff posts a 2026 food-service RFP, but no signed contracts, so contracts = no.
No fee rates found on visitation or inmate-funds pages; no deaths or inspection report found.
What was tried: http://www.myfcso.us/ and https://www.flaglersheriff.com/ (refused, PROVENANCE_REQUIRED); inmatesearch.flaglersheriff.com (does not resolve); flaglercounty.gov root (refused).
Two searches 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 Flagler 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