Cloud County

The Detention Center

Cloud County Law Enforcement Center

• Operated byCloud County Sheriff's Office
• Address811 Washington, Concordia, KS 66901; (785) 243-8164
• Capacity“an 80 bed Jail”, published on the Law Enforcement Center page — no male/female split or daily population given.
• PREAA dedicated PREA Public Information Policy page states a zero-tolerance policy toward sexual abuse/harassment, requires standardized DOJ incident data collection, a mandatory annual report with year-to-year comparison, and 10-year data retention; it lists reporting channels (Jail Captain, a domestic-violence hotline, Crime Stoppers). It references completed PREA audits, but the audit-report links on the page returned errors this session except a 2015 Survey of Sexual Victimization link — no specific audit result for Cloud County was actually retrievable.
• Fees publishedA Fees & Services page lists civil-process, report-copy, VIN-inspection, fingerprinting and concealed-carry fees, but no phone, video-visit, commissary or bond fee.
• Visitation24-hour-advance scheduling by phone; 8am-5pm in two-hour blocks; one visit per inmate per week; no bond/bail guidance on this page.
• BudgetA County Financials page lists County Budget, Mill Levy, Financial Report and Accounts Payable documents by year (2017-2027), but the actual dollar figures live only inside the linked PDFs, which were not opened this session.

Source: Cloud County, Kansas — Law Enforcement Center · checked 2026-09-17

• ✓The jail is named
• ✗Who is in custody — not published
• ✓Beds and daily population
• ✗What it costs taxpayers — not published
• ✗Deaths in custody — not published
• ✗PREA audits — not published
• ✗Independent inspection — not published
• ✗Who else it holds, and for how much — not published
• ✗How to post bond — not published
• ✗Phone, video and commissary rates — not published

This rates disclosure, not conduct — what Cloud County publishes about a jail its taxpayers own, checked 2026-09-17. Nothing here says the jail is run well or badly. Every mark moves the moment the county posts the document.

The Building

You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.

• Year builtNot found
• Original costNot found
• Paid for byNot found
• BedsNot found

The Sheriff

Sheriff Ken Davis

• Runs the jailYes — K.S.A. 19-811 gives the sheriff charge and custody of the county jail and its prisoners; K.S.A. 19-1903 makes the sheriff responsible for the manner in which it is kept.
• How the office is filledElected countywide for a four-year term (K.S.A. 19-801a); not one of Kansas's two structural exceptions (Riley County has no sheriff; Wyandotte County's sheriff is separately elected within a consolidated government).
• Office contact2090 Ft. Kearney St., Concordia, KS 66901; (785) 243-3636

Source: Kansas Sheriffs' Association — county profile · checked 2026-09-17

The Judges

Kansas decides judicial selection district by district under Kan. Const. Art. 3 §6 and K.S.A. 20-2901. In most rural Kansas counties the district magistrate judge sets bail (K.S.A. 20-302b). The 12th Judicial District has adopted the nonpartisan method: a local nominating commission of lawyers and non-lawyers sends the Governor a list of names, the Governor appoints, and the judge then faces retention votes. Kansas districts choose this by ballot under K.S.A. 20-2901; partisan election is the default they opted out of.

Source: the state judiciary · checked 2026-09-17

The County Commissioners

They pay for the jail. The sheriff runs it.

• What they controlThe detention budget, the building itself, and the agreements that let other agencies rent its beds.
• What they don'tDay-to-day operations. The sheriff is separately elected and answers to voters, not to the board.
• The boardBoard of County Commissioners →
• Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →