The Detention Center
Tillamook County Corrections Facility, also called the Tillamook County Jail in the county's own bail and phone pages
- Operated byTillamook County Sheriff's Office
- Jail address5995 Long Prairie Rd, Tillamook, OR 97141 - part of the Justice Center off Long Prairie Road at Schneidecker Lane. Corrections 503-842-3422, corrections fax 503-815-8214
- Population when checked29 adults in custody, from the county's own live inmate list. The list gives each person's name, bail amount, book date, charges and release date; photographs are not published
- VisitsUp to three half-hour visits a week, starting 72 hours after booking, with a new visitation card required on each booking. Video visits are scheduled through inmatesales.com or 877-998-5678
- Communications vendorC-Tel / CPC, contactable at 1-702-829-3001 or inmatesales.com. The county states plainly that 'the Tillamook County Jail does not administer the AIC communications systems'
- Charges the county does publish'AICs accrue debt after they are housed (i.e. $5 for Hygiene Kit, $2.50 for Writing Pack)' - the county's own Posting Bail page. On-site video visiting in the public lobby is free; remote video visiting is 'a minimal fee' with no figure given
- BudgetThe county's adopted FY2026-27 budget carries Sheriff/Jail expenditures of $4,511,800 within a total Sheriff - Criminal/Jail/Marine budget of $9,861,716. The jail budget includes $55,000 of buildings and improvements capital outlay for the year
- Money it takes inThe same budget carries Intercounty/Jail Programs revenue of $129,050 and Intercounty/Sanction Beds revenue of $95,000 for FY2026-27, so the jail does take money from other jurisdictions - but the budget names no counterparty and publishes no rate
- What was triedThe Sheriff's Office pages, Corrections Facility, Posting Bail, AIC Phones, AIC Mail, Booking Process, the inmate list, the Treasurer's budget page and the full adopted budget PDF were all read, and the county site search was run for jail capacity. No bed count, construction date or construction cost is published anywhere on the county's site
Source: Tillamook County Sheriff's Office - Corrections Facility · checked 2026-08-23
Transparency rating
4/10Partial- ✓The jail is named
- ✓Who is in custody
- ✗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
- ✗Phone, video and commissary rates — not published
The Building
You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.
- Year builtNot found. Nothing on the county's site gives a construction date for the Corrections Facility or the Justice Center
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found as a construction figure. Operating money is carried in the county's adopted budget - Sheriff/Jail expenditures of $4,511,800 for FY2026-27 inside a $9,861,716 Sheriff - Criminal/Jail/Marine total, itself inside a $189.2 million all-funds county budget of which $13.6 million is Public Safety and Justice
- BedsNot found. The county publishes a live inmate list but no rated capacity
Since then
- Not found. The FY2026-27 budget carries $55,000 of buildings and improvements capital outlay in the Sheriff/Jail division, with no project named
The Sheriff
Sheriff Joshua R. Brown
- Runs the jailYes - 'Some of the major operations include running and maintaining the jail', the Sheriff's Office's own words. The jail is the Corrections Facility at the Justice Center
- How the office is filledElected. 'The Sheriff's duty is to maintain peace within the county, and as an elected official the Sheriff is accountable to the people of Tillamook County' - the Sheriff's Office's own words
- In office since4 January 2021 - the county publishes a complete list of its sheriffs back to 1867 and records Brown as serving 01/04/2021 to current
- PredecessorsJim Horton 2019 to 2021, Andy Long 2011 to 2019, Todd Anderson 2000 to 2011
- Jail commandLieutenant Fernando Silveira is named on the county's Corrections Facility page
- Other duties of the officeSearch and rescue on land and water, service of civil papers, community corrections (parole and probation), courthouse security, major crime team response, forest patrol, marine patrol, Sand Lake patrol and support to the municipal police departments
- OfficeTillamook County Sheriff, 5995 Long Prairie Rd, Tillamook, OR 97141 - Justice Center 800-255-1471, patrol and records 503-842-2561, corrections 503-842-3422
- How this was verifiedNamed on the county's own Sheriff's Office page and dated on the county's published Sheriff History list
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Tillamook County Sheriff's Office · checked 2026-08-23
The Judges
Oregon Circuit Court judges are elected in nonpartisan races to six-year terms and are state judicial officers, not county officials. A judge, not the sheriff, sets security amounts and release conditions; the sheriff's office only receives the money and releases the person. Justices of the Peace are the hybrid: a JP is both a state-authorised court judge and a county elected official, elected to a six-year term, with the county paying for the court. ORS 169.320 makes the sheriff the keeper of the county jail; the sheriff may appoint a keeper but remains responsible. Tillamook County is the whole of the 27th Judicial District. The Oregon Judicial Department publishes no judges page for this circuit court, so the circuit bench is recorded here as not found rather than guessed. The county's own Justice Court is unusually well documented by contrast: it names its elected Justice of the Peace and his pro tem, states that the JP is 'an elected county official, with a six year term', and states that 'Funding for the Justice Court is not related to fines and fees imposed by the court' - all fines and fees go to the County Treasurer and the court's budget is set by the Board of Commissioners. The jail's own Corrections Facility page tells families not to call the jail for court dates and points them to the circuit court calendar instead.
Circuit Court - 27th Judicial District (Tillamook County)
- Not found - the Oregon Judicial Department's Tillamook County Circuit Court site publishes no judges page. The court's own pages cover records, going to court, jury duty, rules, payments and programmes, but not the bench
Tillamook County Justice Court - Tillamook, founded 1854; also acts as the municipal court for Tillamook, Bay City and Garibaldi
- Ryan C. Connell, Justice of the Peace - elected by the voters in May 2018 to a six-year term; member of the Oregon State Bar, JD from Willamette University College of Law
- Denise Harrington, Justice of the Peace pro tem - presides over Spanish Traffic Court at 8:45 a.m. on the first Wednesday of each month
- The county's bond schedule
- Share of the jail population held pretrial
- Median time from booking to first appearance
Source: the state judiciary · checked 2026-08-23
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
- roster: the county hosts its own inmate list at the URL cited, on the county domain rather than a vendor's, and it carries bail amounts, book dates, charges and release dates. It showed 29 people in custody when checked.
- capacity: recorded 'no'. The live roster gives a population count of a kind, but the county publishes no bed capacity anywhere, and no average daily population. The site search returned nothing for jail beds or capacity, and the full adopted budget PDF contains no bed figure.
- bond_info: the Posting Bail page is one of the clearer ones in this group. It states there are no bail bondsmen in Oregon, that 10 per cent of total bail is usually enough, what forms of payment are taken and where, that credit cards work only for Tillamook Circuit Court cases, that out-of-county holds need cash or a money order, and that money mailed in will be applied to a person's jail debt unless it is marked for bail.
- fees: recorded 'no'. The county does publish two specific charges - $5 for a hygiene kit and $2.50 for a writing pack - and states that on-site lobby video visits are free while remote ones cost 'a minimal fee'. No phone rate, no video visit rate and no commissary price list is published, and the county points all such questions to the vendor.
- contracts: recorded 'no'. The adopted budget shows Intercounty/Jail Programs revenue of $129,050 and Intercounty/Sanction Beds revenue of $95,000, so money does come in from other jurisdictions, but no agreement, counterparty or rate is published.
- budget: the Treasurer publishes full adopted budgets back to 2011-12 plus a two-page Budget in Brief, a Popular Annual Financial Report, Annual Comprehensive Financial Reports and a county financial assessment. The FY2026-27 Budget in Brief states a $189.2 million total budget across all funds, $87.7 million cost of delivering services, 289 county employees and $46.7 million held in reserves, and puts Public Safety and Justice - which it defines as including the jail - at $13.6 million, 'over half of every General Fund dollar'.
- deaths, prea, inspections: nothing published by the county on any of these.
- state_inspection: Oregon has no state jail inspectorate. The Oregon State Sheriffs' Association publishes no per-jail inspection result and Tillamook County publishes none of its own.
- Tillamook County is governed by a three-member Board of County Commissioners, 'three elected, non-partisan positions'. The members are Erin Skaar (Position 1), Chair Paul Fournier (Position 2) and Vice-Chair Mary Faith Bell (Position 3). The Board adopts the county budget and ordinances, appoints boards and committees, sits as the local public health authority and county contract review board, and doubles as the board of the Solid Waste Service District, the 4-H and Extension Service District and the County Road District. It sits at the Tillamook County Courthouse, 201 Laurel Avenue, Tillamook. Board meetings and board briefings run weekly and are listed with agendas, agenda packets and minutes on the county's meetings page, which is filterable by department including 'Sheriff's Office / Jail'. In June 2026 the Board adopted a resolution of no confidence in the District Attorney, which the county published on its own site.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Tillamook 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 county clerk runs the election in Tillamook County and prints the ballot the sheriff’s name is on. Links from USA.gov and vote.gov.
Names verified 2026-08-23 · dollars and outcomes still being gathered