The Detention Center
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- Operated byMontmorency County Sheriff's Office
- Jail addressNot found
- BedsNot found
Source: Not found - see notes on access attempts · checked 2026-09-19
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
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The Sheriff
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- Runs the jailPer MCL 51.75, the elected county sheriff has custody of the county jail; the county's own website could not be accessed to confirm current jail operations detail
- How the office is filledElected, four-year term, MCL 51.70
- Statutory basisMCL 51.75 gives the elected county sheriff custody of the county jail
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Not found - see notes on access attempts · checked 2026-09-19
The Judges
Michigan circuit and district court judges are elected on a nonpartisan ballot to six-year terms under Mich. Const. art. VI — state judicial officers, not county officials.
Montmorency County Circuit Court
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- The county's bond schedule
- Share of the jail population held pretrial
- Median time from booking to first appearance
Source: the state judiciary · checked 2026-09-19
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 boardNot found
- Where the jail money is decidedNot found
Notes on the record
- What was tried: the county's own site (montmorencycountymichigan.us) returned a 'Request forbidden by administrative rules' 403 error on every page fetched except its bare homepage, which itself is a minimal, outdated page (citing 2006 population data) with no visible sheriff or jail links reachable from the content that could be read. A specific Sheriff's Department subpage URL (/Sheriffsdepartment.html), found referenced by the Michigan Sheriffs' Association site, could not be fetched (robots.txt fetch failures on repeated attempts).
- A secondary source (Michigan Sheriffs' Association, misheriff.org) names a 'Sheriff Chad Brown' for Montmorency County, but that page's own metadata shows it was last modified in December 2018 — per the accuracy rule that a departed sheriff is worse than 'Not found,' this name is not reported as the current sheriff without confirmation from a current, official source.
- No confirmed current sheriff, jail facility details, or any of the ten transparency-check items could be verified from the county's own site given the access problems encountered.
- State inspection/oversight: Michigan county jails are subject to inspection under the Michigan Department of Corrections' Administrative Rules for Jails and Lockups; applicability to Montmorency County's jail could not be confirmed from a page that could be opened.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Montmorency 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 2026-09-19 · dollars and outcomes still being gathered