Johnson County

Notes on the record

• Johnson County is the strongest jail-inspection disclosure found in this group: it posts its own copy of the Iowa Department of Corrections jail inspection report, dated January 6, 2026, inspector Delbert Longley.
• The inspection report records, in its own words: 'Several cracks were observed on the interior and exterior of the building. Metal supports on the exterior of the building is rusty and pulling away from the brick. The floor in front of the showers is deteriorating. Several signs of water and sewage leakage is evident in the first-floor offices.' It adds that 'These issues continue to exist and appear to be worsening. Icicles were observed between the support beams and brick on the exterior of the building.' These are the inspection's own physical-plant observations, recorded here as written.
• The measured standards in the report were coded as compliant.
• The county publishes a Jail Roster, linked from the Office of Sheriff page at https://ww1.johnsoncountyiowa.gov/Sheriff/JailRoster/index on the county's own subdomain. The roster page itself is disallowed to automated fetching by robots.txt, so it could not be opened; the check is recorded 'yes' on the strength of the county page that publishes it, which was opened.
• The county runs a substantial jail statistics page at https://www.johnsoncountyiowa.gov/sheriff/jail-stats which was opened; it indexes monthly dashboards, fiscal-year statistical summaries, 'Combined Cost to House Inmates Outside of Johnson County by Year (2003-2025)' and 'by County (2003-2025)', a 2022 Facility Condition Assessment, 2023 and 2024 Property Condition Assessments, a 2024 Space Needs Assessment and State Jail Inspections for 2025-2026. Those are cost and study documents rather than a published corrections budget, and the individual PDFs were not opened, so budget and contracts are recorded 'no'.
• Bond amounts are given only by telephone, per the jail FAQ ((319) 356-6025); no written bail-posting guidance was found, so bond_info is 'no'.
• Inmate canteen documents are linked from the jail FAQ but were not opened, and no phone or video-visit rate was published on any page opened, so fees is 'no'.
• Iowa publishes no statewide dataset of deaths in county jail custody. Two duties exist and neither produces a public number: Iowa Admin. Code 201-50.22(14) requires the state jail inspection unit to be notified within 24 hours of any death, attempted suicide, fire, escape, injury to staff or prisoners from assaults, or use of force and prisoner self-injuries; and Iowa Code 127.3(1) requires an autopsy for a death in a jail or under police custody where no natural disease process accounts for it. The deaths check passes only if this county itself publishes a death in its custody on its own site, and it does not.
• Open records run under Iowa Code chapter 22; the right is at 22.2, 'Every person shall have the right to examine and copy a public record.' There is no blanket response deadline - the only clock is 22.8(4), which caps a delay taken to screen a record for confidentiality at twenty calendar days and says it 'ordinarily should not exceed ten business days.'
• The jail is a county facility funded through county revenues; it is not federally funded.
• Five-member Board of Supervisors elected at large to four-year terms (the county page notes a transition to district-based elections): V Fixmer-Oraiz, Jon Green, Lisa Green-Douglass, Mandi Remington and Rod Sullivan. Work sessions Wednesdays at 9:00 a.m.; formal meetings Thursdays at 9:00 a.m., except the second Thursday of each month at 5:30 p.m.