The Detention Center
Davis County Correctional Facility (Davis County Jail)
- Operated byDavis County Sheriff's Office, Corrections Division
- Address800 West State Street, Farmington, Utah 84025
- Typical daily populationApproximately 800 inmates in a typical year
- StandardsOperations described as subject to Utah Sheriffs' Association Jail Standards, with annual inspection stated (no specific inspection result published)
- Oversight namedUtah Department of Corrections, U.S. Marshals Service, Davis County Health Dept. Environmental Health Services, state/local Fire Marshals (per county site)
- What was trieddaviscountyutah.gov/sheriff/corrections and /sheriff/corrections/inmate-information checked for beds, year built, and cost — none published
Source: Davis County Sheriff's Office — Corrections · checked 2026-08-24
Transparency rating
5/10Partial- ✓The jail is named
- ✓Who is in custody
- ✓Beds and daily population
- ✓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
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- BedsNot found (county publishes typical daily population of ~800, not a bed count)
Since then
- Medical Observation Unit expansion of the medical wing, estimated completion early 2022, per county site (no cost published)
The Sheriff
Sheriff Kelly V. Sparks
- Runs the jailYes — Davis County Correctional Facility, under the Sheriff's Corrections Division
- How the office is filledElected; first elected 2018, sworn in January 2019
- Chief Deputy of CorrectionsAndrew Oblad, oversees the Correctional Facility
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Davis County Sheriff's Office — Meet Your Sheriff · checked 2026-08-24
The Judges
Utah judges are appointed by the Governor through a nominating commission, then face retention election. They are state judicial officers, not county officials.
Second District Court — Presiding Judge
- Ronald G. Russell
Davis County Justice Court
- J.C. Ynchausti
- The county's bond schedule
- Share of the jail population held pretrial
- Median time from booking to first appearance
Source: the state judiciary · checked 2026-08-24
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
- Capacity check credited based on published typical daily population (~800); no specific bed count was found on the county's own site.
- Utah Sheriffs' Association Jail Standards are referenced as governing the facility with annual inspection, but no specific inspection result is published on the county's own site.
- Three-member elected Board of Davis County Commissioners, four-year overlapping terms: Bob J. Stevenson (Chair), Lorene Miner Kamalu (Vice Chair), John Crofts.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Davis 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 2026-08-24 · dollars and outcomes still being gathered