Dawson County

The Detention Center

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• Operated byDawson County Sheriff's Office
• Facility pageThe Sheriff's Office site has a page titled 'Dawson County Jail,' and a separate Sheriff's Department website exists at dawsoncountysheriffne.com, but neither returns usable body content to an automated fetch — both are JavaScript-rendered sites that serve only page metadata (title tags) with no facility name, address, bed count, or transparency data reachable this way
• What was triedhttps://dawsoncountysheriffne.com/jail (re-fetched, still no usable body content); https://dawsoncountysheriffne.com/ (re-fetched — quoted verbatim, page renders only a 'Home' title client-side); https://www.dawsoncountyne.gov/administrative/sheriff/index.php (confirmed: no jail name, address or transparency data; full site link list recovered instead)

Source: Dawson County, NE — Sheriff · checked 2026-08-25

• ✗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

This rates disclosure, not conduct — what Dawson County publishes about a jail its taxpayers own, checked 2026-08-25. Nothing here says the jail is run well or badly. Every mark moves the moment the county posts the document.

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

The Sheriff

Sheriff Mark Montgomery

• Runs the jailYes — Sheriff's Office manages the jail under Neb. Rev. Stat. 47-105 and 23-1703
• How the office is filledElected countywide, four-year term (Neb. Rev. Stat. 32-520)
• Office address709 N. Grant Street, Lexington, NE 68850

Source: Dawson County, NE — Sheriff · checked 2026-08-25

The Judges

Nebraska judges are merit-selected and are state, not county, officials: the Governor appoints from a judicial nominating commission list, and appointees then face retention elections (Neb. Const. Art. V §21). The county court judge sets bail at first appearance. No named district or county court judge for Dawson County was located from a source opened in this pass.

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 →