The county commissioners have resisted a full-scale assessment, largely because they don’t want the county stuck with the bill.

“I’ve never objected to an audit,” said Commissioner John Smaligo. “But who is going to pay for it? The Criminal Justice Authority has a shortage, so if it pays for another audit, that’s going to mean less money for salaries. So then it falls back on the county general fund. I’d be OK with it as long as the municipalities who want it pay a proportional share.”

The most recent incident involves the county’s decision earlier this month to reimburse the jail about $275,000 in salary and benefits for six security guards who moved between the jail and courthouse in 2013 and early 2014.

The county commissioners have downplayed the situation, saying an incorrect decision was made almost three years ago and then reversed. But they acknowledge they, too, have questions about the jail’s management under Glanz.

Smaligo, though, says that “has nothing to do with how much the city of Tulsa should be paying” to keep its prisoners in the county jail. The commissioners suspect Bartlett’s complaints are all or mostly diversionary.