Douglas County corrections officials report budget correction, staffing gains and software rollout date

Amber Redmond, deputy director of corrections for Douglas County, reported to the Board of Corrections on the facility's August 2025 operations, saying the department is under budget after an earlier accounting error was corrected and outlining staffing, admissions, program and equipment updates.

Redmond said the corrections budget is under by $708,117 for the second month of the fiscal year after the clerk's office identified payroll that had been posted to the wrong fiscal period. She also reported $568,516 in overtime costs for August, attributing much of that to months with three payroll periods and to training and construction-related staffing needs. "We were accounting for an additional payroll in our month that actually belonged to the prior fiscal year," Redmond said.

The report said the department collected more than $840,000 in bond payments in August and that two officers below sergeant rank left the department during the month. Redmond said Douglas County was 102%…