The Detention Center
Livingston County Jail
- Operated byLivingston County Sheriff's Office, Correctional Services Bureau
- Jail address4 Court St, Geneseo, NY 14454
- Staffing8 sergeants, 58 full-time deputies, 19 part-time deputies and 4 civilian staff
- Rated capacityNot published on the sheriff's or county site
- Jail AdministratorCaptain Jeremy Slocum, Jail Division
Source: Livingston County Sheriff — Correctional Services Bureau · checked 2026-09-20
Transparency rating
2/10Closed- ✓The jail is named
- ✗Who is in custody — not published
- ✗Beds and daily population — not published
- ✓What it costs taxpayers
- ✗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
- The sheriff's site links a county page for a proposed training complex
The Sheriff
Sheriff Thomas J. Dougherty
- Runs the jailYes — the Sheriff's Correctional Services Bureau runs the Livingston County Jail
- How the office is filledElected county sheriff (NY County Law art. 17); the site describes him as the 50th Sheriff, elected in November 2013
- Correctional commandChief Deputy Aaron Galvin heads the Correctional Services Bureau
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Livingston County Sheriff's Office · checked 2026-09-20
The Judges
New York's county and supreme court justices are state judicial officers, not county officials; city, town and village justices also set bail for people arrested in their areas.
Livingston County Circuit 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 2026-09-20
The County Legislature or Board of Supervisors
They pay for the jail. In most counties the sheriff runs it.
- What they controlThe jail budget, the building itself, and the agreements that rent its beds to other agencies. Several counties also have an elected County Executive. In Westchester a county Department of Correction runs the jail rather than the sheriff.
- What they don'tDay-to-day operations, and state oversight. The sheriff is separately elected and keeps the jail in most counties (NY Correction Law art. 20), while the State Commission of Correction sets the standards, inspects the facility and investigates every death in custody. The five New York City counties have no county sheriff jail at all — the city Department of Correction runs them.
- NoteBoard of Supervisors, with an agenda centre for agendas, minutes and broadcasts.
- The boardLivingston County Board of Supervisors →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- The sheriff's own site names the Livingston County Jail and its command, but publishes no visitation, commissary, bail, PREA, inspection or fee page.
- The 2026 Adopted Budget on the county site carries '3110 Sheriff' and '3150 Jail' lines but no capacity or population figure.
- Sheriff's Office policies are hosted on an outside policy portal (public.powerdms.com), which is not the county's or sheriff's own domain and so scores no check.
- What was tried: the supplied URL https://www.livingstoncountyny.org/sheriff does not resolve; the working county domain is livingstoncountyny.gov, whose sheriff page redirects to the sheriff's own site livingstonsheriffny.gov.
- No searches were spent on this county.
- State inspection/oversight: New York's State Commission of Correction oversees every local correctional facility in the state, sets the minimum standards they must meet, inspects them, and investigates every death in custody.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Livingston 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 legislators who pay for it.
Names verified 2026-09-20 · dollars and outcomes still being gathered