The Detention Center
Antelope County Law Enforcement Center
- Operated byAntelope County Sheriff's Office
- Address1102 L Street, Neligh, NE 68756
- Services listedThe county's own sheriff page lists bond/bail payment, fingerprinting, gun permits, paper service, reports, title inspections, tow bill processing and work-release services, all through the Sheriff's Office
- Business office hoursBusiness Office/Lobby closed daily noon–12:45 p.m.; weekend access by appointment only
- State reportingListed as an active reporting agency ('ANTELOPECOSONELIGH') in the Nebraska Crime Commission's jail-data reporting-status table, consistent with an operating jail
Source: Antelope County, NE — Sheriff (antelopecounty.nebraska.gov) · checked 2026-08-25
Transparency rating
2/10Closed- ✓The jail is named
- ✗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
- ✗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 Robert E. Moore
- Runs the jailYes — the elected sheriff has charge of the county jail under Neb. Rev. Stat. 47-105 and 23-1703
- How the office is filledElected countywide, four-year term (Neb. Rev. Stat. 32-520)
- FacilityAntelope County Law Enforcement Center, 1102 L Street, Neligh, NE 68756
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Antelope County, NE — Sheriff (antelopecounty.nebraska.gov) · checked 2026-08-25
The Judges
Nebraska judges are merit-selected, not county officials: the Governor appoints from a judicial nominating commission's list, and the judge then faces an uncontested retention vote at the next general election after three years, and every six years thereafter (Neb. Const. Art. V, sec. 21). The County Court judge sets bail at first appearance. Antelope County's own County Court page names only its Clerk Magistrate (Kristina Sehi), not the presiding judge; the presiding County Court judge and the District Court judge for this county were not established from sources reviewed this session.
District Court
- Not found
County 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 2026-08-25
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
- The county's board-minutes page (https://antelopecounty.nebraska.gov/board-minutes) lists minutes by year back to 2014 but the individual minute documents were not opened this session, so no specific budget or jail-cost figure is recorded from them.
- State-layer finding applies: Neb. Rev. Stat. 83-4,131 requires the Nebraska Jail Standards Board (via Crime Commission staff) to inspect this jail and deliver a written report to the county's governing body within 30 days, but no state agency publishes the report and none was found published on the county's own site.
- Antelope County's own site names a five-member 'County Board of Commissioners' by district: Neil Williby (Dist. 1), Eli Jacob (Dist. 2), Regina Krebs (Dist. 3), Charlie Henery (Dist. 4), Casey Dittrich (Dist. 5), meeting the first and second Tuesday of each month. This updates the 2008 Nebraska Blue Book, which listed Antelope among the 27 township counties governed by a seven-member Board of Supervisors — the county's current site uses 'Commissioners' terminology and a five-member (not seven-member) structure.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Antelope 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 2026-08-25 · dollars and outcomes still being gathered