issues such as inmate rights and security. Compliance does not depend on whether the jail is run by a sheriff, a jail warden, the State, a county, a combination of counties, a city, or anyone else. The Commissioners have claimed that, because of these standards, the State and the State alone controls the Sheriffs operation of the County Jail. The conclusion is erroneous. According to state regulations, the Commissioner’s audit is forwarded to “the managing official and other authorities of the jurisdiction.” Md.Regs.Code 12.14.01.02(c). The broad standards often require only the establishment of written policies to cover situations, leaving open room for interpretation and sheriff and county responsibility for implementation. See Weber v. Dell, 804 F.2d 796, 803 (2d Cir.1986) (<HOLDING>), cert. denied, 483 U.S. 1020, 107 S.Ct. 3263,
holding that mandatory visual strip search policy in county jail was unconstitutional holding that the sheriffs hiring and firing of personnel to provide food service to the county jail is not a time immemorial principal and important duty that characterizes and distinguishes the office of sheriff and as such is not within the sheriffs constitutional powers holding that policy requiring strip searches of prisoners prior to transfer did not violate fourth amendment holding that sheriffs deputies were not employed in the service of marshall county and that the county personnel board therefore had no jurisdiction to review their respective terminations ordered by the sheriff holding that a state administrative prison code requiring thorough searches did not mandate the sheriffs decision to implement a strip search policy and therefore the county not the state was liable