The Detention Center
Not found
- Operated byGooding County Sheriff's Office
- What was foundThe Staff Directory lists Andy Hoffman as 'Jail Administrator' under the Sheriff's Office, confirming a jail is operated, but no dedicated jail page, distinct facility name, address, capacity, or budget is published separately from the Sheriff's Office listing (624 Main Street, Gooding, ID 83330)
- What was triedChecked the Departments, Government, and full Staff Directory pages, and the Sheriff's Office directory entry — no jail-specific page exists on the county site
Source: Gooding County Staff Directory · 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 Shaun Gough
- Runs the jailThe county site lists a 'Jail Administrator' position under the Sheriff's Office, confirming Idaho Code Title 20, Chapter 6 jail authority sits with the Sheriff
- How the office is filledElected
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Gooding County Staff Directory — Sheriff's Office · checked 2026-08-24
The Judges
Idaho has a District Court for the judicial district and a Magistrate Court. Magistrate judges are appointed by a district magistrates commission and then face a retention election; both are state judicial officers, not county officials. The county's directory lists District Court and Magistrate Court contact information but does not name sitting judges.
District Court
- Not found
Magistrate Court
- Not found
- 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
- Commissioners identified from the county's Staff Directory: Mark Bolduc (Chairman), Vern Eames, Ronald Buhler (https://goodingcounty.org/directory.aspx).
- Coroner Patrick J. Curtis and Prosecuting Attorney Trevor Misseldine are also listed in the same directory, for reference.
- No page on the county's own site gives the jail a distinct published name, so the named check is marked no even though a Jail Administrator position is listed.
- Board of County Commissioners
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Gooding 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