The Detention Center
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- Operated byFrontier County Sheriff's Office
- What the county publishesThe Sheriff's Office page states the office “manage[s] the county jail”; the site has no dedicated jail/corrections page and lists no facility name, address, capacity, or budget
- What was triedhttps://frontiercounty.ne.gov/public-records/ (no records-request process, roster, or fee schedule); https://frontiercounty.ne.gov/budgets/ (no jail/sheriff budget line item found)
Source: Frontier County Sheriff's Office · checked 2026-08-25
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 Michael Jordan
- Runs the jailYes — the Sheriff's Office page states it manages the county jail; 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)
- ContactPO Box 320, Curtis, NE 69025; (308) 367-4411
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Frontier County Sheriff's Office · 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 this county was located from a source opened in this pass.
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
- State-layer finding applies: Neb. Rev. Stat. 83-4,131 requires the Jail Standards Board's inspection report to go to the facility's governing body, not to the public; no state agency publishes it, and this county's own site does not publish an inspection report either.
- County Attorney Whitney Schroeder serves as ex officio county coroner (no separate coroner position), per the county's own attorney page.
- Board of Commissioners, 3 members: Kent Lehmann (District 1), Steven J. Hall (District 2), Kevin Owens (District 3). The county's own board-meetings page uses 'Board of Commissioners' terminology throughout. Meets the first week of each month and the last Wednesday of each month, at 1 Wellington St, Stockville.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Frontier 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