Sheriff to have charge of jail
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case 218 F. App'x 466 - Loggins v. Franklin Cnty Oh (2007)
Most recently applied in Hopper v. Montgomery Cnty. Sheriff (February 2017)
Effective: September 29, 1995; Latest Legislation: House Bill 117 - 121st General Assembly
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
The sheriff shall have charge of the county jail and all persons confined therein. He shall keep such persons safely, attend to the jail, and govern and regulate the jail according to the minimum standards for jails in Ohio promulgated by the department of rehabilitation and correction.
The sheriff's responsibilities under this section do not extend to a jail or workhouse that is the subject of a contract entered into under section 9.06 of the Revised Code.
Official source: Ohio Laws & Administrative Rules (Legislative Service Commission). Reproduced from public-domain Ohio statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.