The Detention Center
Not found
- Operated byNot found
- No jail listedCamas County does not appear in the Idaho Sheriffs' Association directory of Idaho jails
- Conflicting third-party claimA non-official aggregator site (camascountyjail.org) asserts Camas County "operates a jail" in generic boilerplate language, but this was not corroborated by the county's own site or by the Idaho Sheriffs' Association directory
- Where prisoners goNot found — no source checked names a holding facility for Camas County prisoners
- What was triedhttps://camascounty.id.gov/camas-county-sheriffs-office/, https://camascounty.id.gov/category/sheriff/, https://camascounty.id.gov/departments-2/, https://www.idahosheriffs.org/contact-your-sheriff/entry/46/, https://www.idahosheriffs.org/jail-services/directory-of-idahos-jails/, https://camascountyjail.org/sheriff-arrest-warrants/
Source: Idaho Sheriffs' Association jail directory (no Camas County listing) · checked 2026-08-24
Transparency rating
0/10Closed- ✗The jail is named — not published
- ✗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 Travis Martin
- Runs the jailNo county jail confirmed — see jail entry below
- How the office is filledElected; Idaho Sheriffs' Association lists him as appointed 2023
- Office location119 Willow Ave West, PO Box 220, Fairfield, ID 83327 — (208) 764-2261
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Camas County, Idaho — Sheriff's Office · checked 2026-08-24
The Judges
Idaho judges are state officers, not county officials. District Court judges serve the judicial district; Magistrate Court judges are appointed by a district magistrates commission and then face retention election. No judge names were found on sources checked for this county.
- The county's bond schedule
- Share of the jail population held pretrial
- Median time from booking to first appearance
Source: the state judiciary · checked 2026-08-24
The County Commissioners
They pay for the jail. The sheriff runs it.
- What they controlThe detention budget, the building itself, and the agreements that let other agencies rent its beds.
- What they don'tDay-to-day operations. The sheriff is separately elected and answers to voters, not to the board.
- The boardBoard of County Commissioners →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- No county-operated jail was confirmed for Camas County; this is treated as a real finding, not a gap, per the brief's guidance that many small Idaho counties contract elsewhere.
- A third-party aggregator site's claim that Camas County operates its own jail conflicts with the Idaho Sheriffs' Association directory (which lists no Camas County facility) and was not used as a basis for any finding.
- District 1: Galen Colter; District 2: Marshall Ralph; District 3 (Chairman): Travis Kramer. Archived minutes back to 2017 available on the county's commissioners page
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Camas 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 who runs this jail is elected. So are the commissioners who pay for it.
Names verified 2026-08-24 · dollars and outcomes still being gathered