The Detention Center
The county publishes no formal name for this facility.
- Operated byCrockett County Sheriff's Office
- County publishes a jail nameNo — the Sheriff page names no facility and there is no jail page
- Sheriff page contentContact details plus outbound links to VINELink and MissingKids only
- What was triedhttps://www.co.crockett.tx.us/ ; https://www.co.crockett.tx.us/page/crockett.Sheriff ; https://www.co.crockett.tx.us/page/crockett.PublicNotices
- Beds and population, 2026-0812 people held in 24 rated beds
Source: Crockett County, Texas - Sheriff · checked 2026-08-22
Transparency rating
1/10Closed- ✗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
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 Victor De La Garza
- TitleCrockett County Sheriff
- Office121 S. Hwy 163, Ozona, TX 76943
- MailingP.O. Box 1931, Ozona, TX 76943
- Phone325-392-2661
- Fax325-392-2045
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Crockett County, Texas - Sheriff · checked 2026-08-22
The Judges
The county also lists a County Court page, but it names no judge separate from the County Judge.
County Judge
- Frank Tambunga
Justice of the Peace, Precinct 1
- Evelyn C. Kerbow
112th District Court
- Pedro Gomez, Jr.
- The county's bond schedule
- Share of the jail population held pretrial
- Median time from booking to first appearance
Source: the state judiciary · checked 2026-08-22
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 →
Notes on the record
- Official and proposed budgets are posted back to 2021 (e.g. 2026 Official Budget at https://www.co.crockett.tx.us/upload/page/9735/2025/2026_official_budget.pdf). The PDF has no text layer, so a jail line item could not be text-verified.
- No agendas or minutes are posted. The site links a 2026 Commissioners Court meeting-dates file hosted at newtools.cira.state.tx.us.
- The Sheriff's page directs the public to VINELink rather than publishing a custody roster.
- Four commissioners plus the County Judge, who presides. Members: Elsa Fierro (Pct 1), G.L. Bunger V (Pct 2), Wesley Bean (Pct 3), Mike Medina Jr. (Pct 4).
- County seat: Texas State Library and Archives Commission — Counties and County Seats
The record
1 people have died in the Crockett County jail since 2019.
Deaths: Texas Justice Initiative, the cleaned copy of the Texas Attorney General’s custodial death reports — the state’s own public index carries no cause of death and has not been refreshed since August 2025. Population: Texas Commission on Jail Standards monthly report. Counted, not estimated.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Crockett 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.
Names verified 2026-08-22 · dollars and outcomes still being gathered