The county jail added 97 people awaiting a case outcome since January

The county jail held 463 people on Sept. 9, according to the daily county detention file the Sheriff’s Office reports to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement under section 900.05 of the Florida Statutes. That is the most recent day in the file and the fullest single day it records for 2026. The file breaks that 463 into four counts, and those four counts add to 463. It lists 356 people as awaiting case disposition, 80 as serving a sentence in the county facility, 27 as awaiting transfer to state custody, and none in the federal column.

In January the same file put the jail at a median of 379 people, 259 of them awaiting case disposition, and across the first nine days of September the medians are 458 and 356. The jail is 79 people fuller than it was in January, and the count of people awaiting a case outcome is 97 higher. The increase in that one column is larger than the increase in the building.

Everything else in the file is flat or falling, and the median count serving a county sentence went from 95 in January to 79 in September. The median awaiting transfer to state custody was 24 in January and 24 in September, and the federal column reads zero on every day of 2026 in the file. The share of the jail being held while a case is unresolved went from 68.3 percent in January to 77.7 percent in September.

The file carries those four counts and a total and nothing else about the people behind them. Awaiting case disposition is the file’s own label for a person whose case has not been resolved. It does not separate someone who cannot meet a monetary release condition from someone held without one, and it does not say what kind of case it is.

A second agency counts the same jail

The Florida Department of Corrections publishes its own monthly report on average daily populations at county detention facilities, collected under section 951.23(2) of the Florida Statutes rather than 900.05. Its January 2026 report puts the average daily population at the county jail at 377, and its July 2026 report puts it at 414. The daily detention file gives medians of 379 for January and 416 for July, and averages of 378.3 and 414.5 for the same two months. Two agencies working from two collection statutes put out two counts within two people of each other in both months.

The Corrections report also splits out pretrial inmates under its own definition of the term. In January it counted 161 felony pretrial and 49 misdemeanor pretrial at the jail, which it prints as 55.7 percent of the population. In July it counted 197 and 57 in the same two fields, which it prints as 61.4 percent. Those are not the same category as the detention file’s awaiting-case-disposition column, whose medians for those same two months are 259 and 308, and the two agencies draw the line in different places.

In both months that report tags this county’s jail row with a double asterisk and prints no footnote anywhere to go with it. The Corrections reports carry a statewide estimate as well: 53,896 people in Florida’s county jails in January, 55,564 in July, which is a rise of 3.1 percent. Over the same two months this county’s figure went from 377 to 414, a rise of 9.8 percent.

Capacity: two published numbers, twelve beds apart

The annual detention file lists a maximum capacity of 752 for the reporting period ending Sept. 30, 2025, and 753 for the period ending Oct. 1, 2023. The Sheriff’s Office website describes two facilities, and it calls the Main Detention Unit a 664 bed facility and the Community Work Release Center a 100 bed facility, which is 764.

The two published answers are twelve beds apart and this story does not close the gap. Measured against 752, the 463 counted on Sept. 9 is 61.6 percent full, and measured against 764 it is 60.6 percent.

Staffing has not moved all year

The daily file carries three staffing counts next to the population, and the full-time employee count reads 232 on all 249 days of 2026 the file fills in. The part-time count reads 10, the auxiliary count reads 0, and none of the three moves across those 249 days. At January’s median that is 1.63 people in custody for every full-time employee, and at September’s it is 1.97.

What the jail costs

The annual file has three fields that are measured the same way in both of this county’s rows, and they are the only annual figures used here. For the reporting period ending Sept. 30, 2025, the jail budget is listed at $34,869,801, at a bed per diem of $157, against a maximum capacity of 752. For the period ending Oct. 1, 2023, two years earlier to the day, the budget is $25,875,012, at a per diem of $158, against a capacity of 753. Facility revenue is listed as $0 in both rows, and the difference in budget is $8,994,789, or 34.8 percent, across 730 days.

The per diem is not the budget divided by the beds, since dividing $34,869,801 by 752 beds and by 365 days gives $127.04. The file offers no derivation for the per-diem field, so both numbers are printed here as filed.

The numbers this story leaves out

The annual file’s inmate-count columns change units between this county’s two rows, and the 2023 row’s counts run to six figures, which is a count of bed-days across a year. The 2025 row’s counts run to three figures, which is a head count on a day. They measure different things and cannot be set side by side as a trend, so no inmate count from the annual file appears in this story. The 2023 row also fails its own arithmetic, since its four component counts add to 159,514 against a printed total of 164,324, a gap of 4,810. The 2025 row adds exactly, since 315 plus 99 plus 11 plus 0 is 425.

The weekly file, which counts admissions on revocation of probation or community control, carries a row for this county dated Dec. 27, 2026, which is 107 days from now. The last row in it inside the calendar is Aug. 8, and nothing from the weekly file is used above.

The other series, and why it is not an explanation

The State Attorney’s Office for the seventh circuit files its own annual report into the same state program. Its rows for this county carry a felony caseload and a misdemeanor caseload for each year.

That table runs on a different clock, since the circuit’s reporting year closes June 30. The most recent one in the file closed on June 30, 2025, which is six months before the first day of the jail series above. The two sets of numbers do not overlap by a single day.

A caseload that fell 14.3 percent in its last reported year and a jail count awaiting disposition that has climbed all through a later year are two facts sitting next to each other. Whether they are connected is not a question these files can answer, and nothing above should be read as an answer to it.