Dodge County

The Detention Center

County Jail

• Operated byDodge County Sheriff's Office
• ContactCounty Jail listed by name in the county's own 'Frequently Used Phone Numbers' at (402) 727-2709, separate from the Sheriff's Office line
• Address428 N Broad, Fremont, NE 68025 (Sheriff's Office); courthouse at 435 N Park, Fremont, NE 68025
• What was triedhttps://dodgecounty.nebraska.gov/sheriff (no facility name, capacity, budget, roster, PREA, inspection, contract, bond, or fee information beyond the custody statute language)

Source: Dodge County, NE — Contact · checked 2026-08-25

• ✓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 — not published
• ✗Phone, video and commissary rates — not published

This rates disclosure, not conduct — what Dodge 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 Robert D. Reynolds

• Runs the jailYes — the county's own page states the sheriff 'has charge and custody of the jail and its prisoners, except in counties where a county board of corrections exists and has duties over the jail' (Dodge County has no such board)
• StatusListed on the county's own site as Interim Sheriff
• How the office is filledElected countywide, four-year term (Neb. Rev. Stat. 32-520); current officeholder is serving in an interim capacity per the county's own listing

Source: Dodge 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 Dodge 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 →