Jefferson County

The Detention Center

Jefferson County Law Enforcement Center

• Operated byJefferson County Sheriff's Office
• Address606 3rd Street, Fairbury, NE 68352 — the sheriff's page identifies this as the "Law Enforcement Center" but does not use the word "jail" as a facility name
• State reporting data"JEFFERSONCOSOFAIRBURY" appears with active submission history in the Nebraska Crime Commission's jail record status table — a state source, not the county's own site — consistent with a jail operating at this address
• RosterThe sheriff's page links a "Current Inmate List" and an "Active Warrant List," but both point to a third-party vendor domain (jdsinc.net), not jeffersoncounty.nebraska.gov, so this is not counted as the county publishing a roster
• Capacity, fees, bond info, inspections, PREA, deaths, contractsNot published on the pages reviewed

Source: Jefferson County 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 Jefferson 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 Nicholas Georgi

• Runs the jailPer Neb. Rev. Stat. 47-105 and 23-1703 (no county board of corrections identified for Jefferson County); the sheriff's own page states "charge and custody of the jail and its prisoners"
• OfficeLaw Enforcement Center, 606 3rd Street, Fairbury, NE 68352
• Contact(402) 729-2284, fax (402) 729-2904
• CorroborationNamed "Sheriff Nick Georgi" as a department head on the county's own August 2026 commissioners meeting agenda

Source: Jefferson County Sheriff · checked 2026-08-25

The Judges

Nebraska uses merit selection with retention elections for every trial court judge, including the county court judge who sets bail at first appearance. The Governor appoints from a list submitted by a judicial nominating commission (Neb. Const. Art. V, sec. 21). The county's own court page names only clerks (Mandy Klipp, Clerk Magistrate; Kara Riggle, Assistant Clerk), not a judge; no sitting judge's name for Jefferson County was found on a source opened this session.

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 →