Alachua County Sheriff's Office

Transportation & Facilities Bureau

Lieutenant Michael Donovan
(352) 491-4468
mdonovan@alachuasheriff.org

The Transportation Bureau provides safe and secure transport of defendants / witnesses to numerous court preceding. To protect the general public from dangerous in-custody defendants and to protect the defendants from the general public. To arrange video court at the Department of the Jail and to properly document the Judge's sentences / results, first appearance, bond hearings, civil child support hearings, video arraignment and change of pleas. To transport important paperwork / documents from the courts to the Department of the Jail and from the DOJ to court personnel. To transport inmates to local drug treatment facilities, Drug Court, Metamorphous, Bridge house, CSU, etc. To routinely transport dangerous felons to medical appointments and psychological evaluations and to remain alert and safe at all times. The Transport Bureau also staffs each and every courtroom that has a hearing involving an inmate in our custody with officer in addition to the Bailiff’s, for the purposes of maintaining order in the holding cells next to each courtroom, and keeping the inmates in our custody safe and secure.

The Facilities Support function of this bureau also provides crews to our food service provider to prepare the inmate meals and keep the kitchen clean. This bureau is responsible for accepting deliveries at the Jail’s Loading Dock, as well as key issuance and control duties. This bureau is also in charge of the warehouse inventory and supply and accountability.

The bureau is also responsible for the facilities by providing supplies and materials necessary for twenty-four hour, seven-day-a-week operation. Items like extra bunks to accommodate an increase in population to toiletry and paper items for hygiene reasons are inventoried and supplied. We also supply the inmate work force that keeps the facility clean, cooks inmate meals, and performs various minor maintenance and upkeep functions.

This bureau is responsible for the screening and selection of inmate workers, commonly referred to as Trusties. Through this process inmates are also selected for the Sheriff’s Inmate Work Crew, which provides free labor to government and non-profit agencies. Assignments for the Work Crew have included pressure washing and painting Gainesville Fire Rescue Buildings, pressure washing and cleaning Gainesville Housing Authority Housing Areas, scrub brush and debris removal from areas adjacent to the runways at the Gainesville Regional Airport, and washing and sanitizing the insides of the Alachua County School Boards School Bus Fleet.