The Detention Center
Eau Claire County Jail
- Operated byEau Claire County Sheriff's Office
- Jail address710 Second Ave., Eau Claire, WI 54703
- BedsNot found on the county's own site
- Jail AdministratorJail Captain Chad Dachel
Source: Eau Claire County - Jail · checked 2026-09-19
Transparency rating
3/10Closed- ✓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 — 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 Dave Riewestahl
- Runs the jailEau Claire County Sheriff's Office operates the Eau Claire County Jail
- How the office is filledElected, four-year term, Wis. Stat. ch. 59; office site states he was elected in January 2023 as the 49th Sheriff of Eau Claire County
- Statutory basisWis. Stat. ch. 59 (county sheriff, custody of jail)
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Eau Claire County - Sheriff's Office · checked 2026-09-19
The Judges
Wisconsin circuit court judges are elected on a nonpartisan ballot to six-year terms under Wis. Const. art. VII — state judicial officers, not county officials.
Eau Claire County Circuit Court
- Not found
- The county's bond schedule
- Share of the jail population held pretrial
- Median time from booking to first appearance
Source: the state judiciary · checked 2026-09-19
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 boardNot found in this pass (county board page not opened)
- Where the jail money is decidedNot found
Notes on the record
- Inmate roster is published via an embedded Power BI dashboard on the sheriff's own site, updated weekdays; page itself warns data may lag between updates.
- 2025 county budget's Sheriff department PDF (hosted on eauclairecounty.gov) confirmed opened and applicable to the sheriff's office; a parallel 2026 county budget page also exists.
- Fees, Licenses & Permits page on the sheriff's site lists only assembly/special-event permit fees ($100 each), not jail-specific fees (booking, Huber, bond); no fee schedule found for the jail specifically.
- No jail capacity/bed count, PREA policy, inspection reports, contracts, or bond-fee information found on the county's own site.
- State inspection/oversight: Wisconsin DOC Division of Community Corrections inspects county jails under Wis. Admin. Code DOC 350; not independently confirmed to apply to Eau Claire County on the county's own site.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Eau Claire 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 2026-09-19 · dollars and outcomes still being gathered