Nemaha County

The Detention Center

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• Operated byNemaha County Sheriff's Office
• Facility name on county siteNot named — the Sheriff's Office page refers only to 'the county jail'
• State reporting nameListed in the Nebraska Crime Commission's jail-data reporting table as 'NEMAHACOSOAUBURN' — a state list, not a county-published source, so not used to satisfy the 'named' check
• What was triedhttps://nemahacountyne.gov/sheriff-office/ (no facility name, address, capacity, or budget given); https://nemahacountyne.gov/budgets/ (page exists but no documents posted)

Source: Nemaha County Sheriff's Office · 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 Nemaha 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 Brent Lottman

• Office address1805 N Street, Auburn, NE 68305
• Runs the jailYes — the Sheriff's Office 'manage[s] the county jail' per Neb. Rev. Stat. 47-105 and 23-1703; no separate corrections department
• How the office is filledElected on a partisan ballot, four-year term (Neb. Rev. Stat. 32-520)

Source: Nemaha County Sheriff's Office · checked 2026-08-25

The Judges

Nebraska's trial courts (District Court and County Court) are state judicial officers, not county officials. All Nebraska judges are merit-selected: the Governor appoints from a judicial nominating commission list, then face retention elections (Neb. Const. Art. V, section 21). The county court judge sets bail at 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 →