Douglas County corrections director reports staffing gains, pretrial savings and drone concerns

Michael Myers, Douglas County director of corrections, told the Board of Corrections on May 13, 2025, that the department was $1,371,362 under budget after the 10th month of the fiscal year, was 104% staffed among correctional officer ranks including 25 cadets in training, and that pretrial release and supervision efforts saved the county an estimated $715,530 in detention costs during April.

Myers' monthly report provided program and population details that county officials said bear on operations and public safety. The report covered staffing and overtime, community corrections placements, pretrial supervision numbers, medical and mental-health screenings and hospitalizations, training and security deployments, and an increase in drone activity over the Douglas County Detention Center campus.

Myers told commissioners that after 10 months the department was under budget by $1,371,362 and that overtime costs totaled $364,577 for the month. He said records processed more than $820,000 in bond payments, five officers below sergeant left in April, and 10 officers were promoted from CO‑1 to CO‑2. “As of April 30, we were a hundred and 4 percent staffed among all correctional officer ranks,” Myers said; that figure includes 25 cadets who were in the training academy and scheduled to graduate on May 23.

Myers gave program statistics for April: the sanction center and transitional discharge center placed 13 people in community…