Oklahoma County, Oklahoma — The Jail, the Sheriff, the Judges

The Detention Center

Oklahoma County Detention Center

Operated byOklahoma County Criminal Justice Authority (OCCJA), a public trust.
Name as the county and the trust write iOklahoma County Detention Center (abbreviated OCDC)
Name as the State Department of Health wOKLAHOMA COUNTY DETENTION CENTER (OSDH provider ID DET-090) — same name
OperatorOklahoma County Criminal Justice Authority (OCCJA), a public trust
Address201 North Shartel Ave., Oklahoma City, OK 73102
Phone405-907-1930 / 405-504-6811; lobby open daily 7:00 am – 6:00 pm
Jail AdministratorTimothy (Tim) Kimrey, joined OCDC August 2022
State inspectionOklahoma inspects this jail. Read the state report →

Source: Oklahoma County — official source · checked August 21, 2026

Transparency rating

8/10Open

✓The jail is named
✓Who is in custody
✓Beds and daily population
✓What it costs taxpayers
✗Deaths in custody — not published
✓PREA audits
✗Independent inspection — not published
✓Who else it holds, and for how much
✓How to post bond
✓Phone, video and commissary rates

This rates disclosure, not conduct — what Oklahoma County publishes about a jail its taxpayers own, checked August 21, 2026. 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 built1992 — the county's own budget book describes the Jail Facility Fund as 'Established to account for the collection and expenditures of a temporary 1-cent sales tax in 1988 for the construction of the…
Original costNot found
Paid for byOriginal facility: temporary 1-cent county sales tax approved in 1988 (Jail Facility Fund 2040). Replacement facility: $45,000,000 of Series 2023 general obligation bonds issued 05/02/2023 under 62 O.S.
BedsNot found

Since then

A wholly new county jail is under construction, financed by $45M Series 2023 GO bonds and $215M Series 2025 bonds; FY 2026-27 adopted Jail Bonds 2023 fund expenditure is $10,516,943 and Capital Projects-New Jail is $564,382
Series 2023 bonds carry $55,225,000 of total debt service through FY 2032-33

The Sheriff

Sheriff Tommie Johnson III

NoteNamed as 'Tommie Johnson III' on the jail trust's own governance page, where he sits as a trustee ('Trustee – Oklahoma County Sheriff Tommie Johnson III').

Still needed

Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail

Source: Oklahoma County Sheriff's Office · checked August 21, 2026

The Judges

Oklahoma elects its district judges in nonpartisan elections. District and associate district judges set bond and decide who waits in this jail.

District Court, Judicial District 7

Hon. Don Andrews — District Judge, Oklahoma County
Hon. Anthony Bonner — District Judge, Oklahoma County
Hon. Heather Coyle — District Judge, Oklahoma County
Hon. C. Dishman — District Judge, Oklahoma County
Hon. Lydia Green — District Judge, Oklahoma County
Hon. K. Nikki Kirkpatrick — District Judge, Oklahoma County
Hon. Natalie Mai — District Judge, Oklahoma County
Hon. Richard Ogden — District Judge, Oklahoma County

Oklahoma County Courthouse, 321 Park Avenue, Oklahoma City, OK 73102. Court Clerk Rick Warren, 320 Robert S.

Still needed

The county's bond schedule
Share of the jail population held pretrial
Median time from booking to first appearance

Source: the state judiciary · checked August 21, 2026

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

JAIL RUN BY A PUBLIC TRUST: the Oklahoma County Detention Center is operated by the Oklahoma County Criminal Justice Authority (OCCJA), a public trust, not by the Sheriff. The Sheriff sits on the trust as one of nine trustees.
This is by far the most transparent jail in this group of ten counties: it publishes an inmate search, daily/weekly/monthly population statistics, a daily blotter, a named administration, the trust's membership, a PREA page with three years of published PREA data, warrant/bond process information an…
GAP: despite eighteen complaint and death investigations being folded into the 05/07/2025 state inspection, the county and the trust publish no in-custody death log or death notices. The press release and blog feeds carry operational and program news only.
GAP: neither the county nor the trust publishes the OCCJA's own operating budget on the jail's website.
The county does not republish the state health department's jail inspection reports.
One OCCJA trustee seat is listed as an open position, and the District 3 commissioner seat is filled on an interim basis (Paul Foster), so the trust's membership is in flux.
Agendas and minutes are hosted on Legistar. Board of County Commissioners: .

These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Oklahoma 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.

The sheriff is on your ballot

The county election board runs the polling place in Oklahoma County and prints the ballot the sheriff’s name is on. Links from the Oklahoma State Election Board and vote.gov.

Names verified August 21, 2026 · dollars and outcomes still being gathered