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

The Detention Center

The county publishes no formal name for this facility.

Operated byOttawa County Sheriff's Office. The Sheriff's site refers only to 'this Jail', 'this detention center' and a 'Jail Administrator'; it never gives the facility a proper name.
County publishes a jail nameNo — the sheriff's site uses only 'Jail' / 'detention center'
Name as the State Department of Health wOTTAWA DETENTION FACILITY (OSDH provider ID DET-001) — note the state omits the word 'County'
Jail address (per the state inspection r28 B Street SE, Miami, OK 74354 (the county writes the Sheriff's address as '28 B.S.E., Miami, OK 74354')
Sheriff's Office phone(918) 542-2806
Population at last state inspection66 (census on 12/29/2025)
Rated capacityNot found
State inspectionOklahoma inspects this jail. Read the state report →

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

Transparency rating

4/10Partial

✗The jail is named — not published
✓Who is in custody
✗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
✓How to post bond
✓Phone, video and commissary rates

This rates disclosure, not conduct — what Ottawa 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 builtNot found
Original costNot found
Paid for byNot found
BedsNot found

Since then

Not found

The Sheriff

Sheriff David Dean

NoteNamed on the county's own office page (with the official e-mail david.dean@ottawacountysook.gov) and on the Sheriff's Office .gov site. Cross-checked against the Oklahoma State Election Board 2024 Roster: 'Sheriff - David Dean, R, Miami'.

Still needed

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

Source: Ottawa 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 13

Hon. Jennifer McAffrey — District Judge, 13th Judicial District (Ottawa County)
Hon. R. Whalen — Associate District Judge, Ottawa County (the 2026 Judicial Directory prints only the initial 'R.')
Hon. Andrew Meloy — Special Judge, Ottawa County
Hon. Dave Crutchfield — Associate District Judge, Delaware County
Hon. Nicholas Lelecas — Special Judge, Delaware County

Ottawa County Courthouse, 102 E. Central Ave., Miami, OK 74354. Court Clerk Cassie Key, 102 E. Central Ave., Suite 203, Miami, OK 74354, (918) 542-2801.

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

INCONSISTENT NAMING: the Oklahoma State Department of Health licenses this facility as the 'OTTAWA DETENTION FACILITY' — dropping the word 'County' — and it carries provider ID DET-001, the first in the state's series. The county and sheriff give the jail no proper name at all.
The county runs the same website under two domains, ottawaok.gov and ottawa.okcounties.org, which cross-link inconsistently; some navigation links point at one domain and some at the other.
The 12/29/2025 state inspection found the facility not in substantial compliance and records that the Jail Administrator did not produce records when they were requested.
The Assessor is listed as Rebecca Brewer on the county site but as Becky Smith in the Oklahoma State Election Board's 2024 roster — an example of names on this county's pages drifting from the state record. The Sheriff's name is consistent across both.
Inmate mail is diverted to a private scanning vendor in Chickasha rather than delivered to the jail.
No PREA page, no in-custody death reporting, no jail budget and no capacity figure are published.
The county site serves under two names — ottawa.okcounties.org redirects to and cross-links with ottawaok.gov (the same KellPro/OKCounties.org install).

These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Ottawa 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 Ottawa 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