Wallowa County

The Detention Center

Not found. Wallowa County publishes no jail of its own and does not name the facility it buys beds from

• Operated byNot found - the county's adopted budget shows it pays another agency under a jail use agreement, but names no counterparty
• What the budget showsThe FY2025-26 adopted budget, Fund 101 Sheriff, line 5-20-2510 JAIL USE AGREEMENT: $198,450 approved and adopted for 2025-26, against $236,000 budgeted and $180,000 actual the year before and $153,840 two years before
• Other custody lines5-20-2400 PRISONER MEALS $100; 5-20-2403 PRISONER TRANSPORT TRAVEL $500; 5-20-2512 PRISONER MEDICAL $5,000
• Transfer inFund 262 Community Corrections line 5-50-5104 'TRANS SHERIFF (101) JAIL' moves $40,000 to the Sheriff for jail costs in 2025-26, down from $80,000 in each of the three prior years
• No jail staffingThe Sheriff's budget carries 6.00 total FTE for 2025-26 and no corrections or jail personnel line; there is no jail department, jail fund or jail capital line anywhere in the adopted budget
• What was triedThe Sheriff's Office page and every sub-page it lists, the Community Corrections page, the Board of Commissioners page, the courthouse page and the county's own site search for 'jail' were all read. The site search returns only a Work Crew page, a Drug Court page, a job posting and an out-of-county news item. The county names no jail, publishes no roster, no capacity, no bail guidance and no fees

Source: Wallowa County 2025-2026 Adopted Budget · checked 2026-08-23

• ✗The jail is named — not published
• ✗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

This rates disclosure, not conduct — what Wallowa County publishes about a jail its taxpayers own, checked 2026-08-23. 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 Ryan Moody

• Runs the jailNo county jail to run. The Sheriff's Office publishes no jail, corrections or inmate page at all; the county's adopted budget instead carries a 'JAIL USE AGREEMENT' line in the Sheriff's budget
• How the office is filledElected. ORS 204.005 requires Oregon sheriffs to be elected to four-year terms
• OfficeThe Wallowa County Justice Center, 104 West Greenwood Street, Enterprise, OR 97828 - 541-426-3131, fax 541-426-4685
• What the office does publishCivil service, concealed handgun licences, fingerprinting, evidence, marine patrol, search and rescue, sworn deputies, press releases. Nothing about custody
• Community CorrectionsA separate county Community Corrections office at the same address, 104 W Greenwood St, 541-426-5128, supervises people on probation and parole. It is not a custodial facility
• How this was verifiedNamed as Sheriff on the county's own Sheriff's Office page

Source: Wallowa County Sheriff's Office · checked 2026-08-23

The Judges

Oregon Circuit Court judges are state judicial officers, not county officials. They are elected in nonpartisan races to six-year terms under Article VII of the Oregon Constitution and ORS chapter 3; mid-term vacancies are filled by gubernatorial appointment and the appointee then stands for election. A judge, not the sheriff, sets security (bail) amounts and release conditions; the sheriff's office or the jail only receives the money and releases the person. ORS 169.320 makes the sheriff the keeper of the county jail and allows the sheriff to appoint a keeper, but the sheriff remains responsible. No Wallowa County Justice Court is published by the county or by the Oregon Judicial Department; the Circuit Court in Enterprise is the trial court and the bail-setting court.

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 →