The Detention Center
Land O'Lakes Detention Center (Pasco County Jail / Pasco Corrections)
- Operated byPasco County Board of County Commissioners — Pasco Corrections (county government), since 1 October 2022
- Jail address20101 Central Blvd, Land O' Lakes, FL 34637 (county Inmate Services page)
- Video visitationICSolutions (The Visitor); visitation contact at 10326 Asbel Road, Land O' Lakes
- Phone rate$0.08 per minute plus tax (ICS)
- CommissaryTrinity Commissary; care packages via MyCarePack ($75 limit plus $7.95 shipping)
- Why the county took overSheriff cited rising medical and food contract costs and an expansion needing about 250 more staff
- Rated capacityNot found
Source: Pasco Sheriff's Office — Community Update: Management of the Land O'Lakes Detention Center (25 Mar 2022) · checked 2026-09-28
Transparency rating
3/10Closed- ✓The jail is named
- ✓Who is in custody
- ✗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
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
- An expansion was under way in 2022 needing about 250 additional staff once fully operational (sheriff's announcement); size and cost not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Chris Nocco
- Runs the jailNo — since 1 October 2022 the Pasco County Board of County Commissioners (Pasco Corrections) manages the Land O'Lakes Detention Center; the Sheriff's Office ran it before (sheriff's announcement, 25 March 2022)
- How the office is filledElected, four-year term
- In office since2011, first appointed by Governor Rick Scott (sheriff's biography page)
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Pasco Sheriff's Office — Sheriff biography · 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 Pasco County
- Circuit Court: Florida's Sixth Judicial Circuit, which also serves Pinellas (Fla. Stat. 26.021). Circuit judges are elected circuit-wide to six-year terms and hear felonies.
- County Court: the Pasco 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.
- NotePasco County's site redirects https to http on most pages, so the board and budget pages could not be opened.
- The boardPasco County Board of County Commissioners
- Where the jail money is decidedNot found
Notes on the record
- Confirmed: the jail is county-run. The Sheriff's Office announced on 25 March 2022 that management of the Land O'Lakes Detention Center would pass to the Board of County Commissioners on 1 October 2022. The county's own site now carries Pasco Corrections and Inmate Services pages; the sheriff's current site has no jail pages and its FY26 budget book has no detention section.
- Roster: the county links 'In Custody Search' at jailinfo.pascocorrections.net (titled Pasco Corrections); the page loads by script, so its contents were not read.
- Fees published on the county Inmate Services page: phone calls $0.08/minute plus tax; MyCarePack $7.95 shipping on up to $75.
- PREA: the county links a PREA Information page (pascocountyfl.gov/prison_rape_elimination_act), but it redirects https to http and could not be opened, so prea is left 'no' as unverified, not verified absent.
- Pasco Corrections page gives 8731 Citizens Drive, New Port Richey as a contact address; the Inmate Services page gives 20101 Central Blvd, Land O' Lakes as the facility.
- No bond guidance, capacity, deaths, inspection, contract or budget material found on pages that opened.
- Search cap reached on this county; county budget and board pages not reached.
- What was tried: pascocountyfl.gov root and PREA page (https-to-http redirect loop, skipped per brief).
- 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 Pasco 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