The Detention Center
Not found
- Operated byCedar County Sheriff's Office
- Jail presenceConfirmed - the county's own sheriff page publishes Jail Visitation Rules and a 'Current Jail Inmates' link, but never gives the facility a name or an address
- Roster hostThe current-inmate link points to a JailTracker instance at omsweb.public-safety-cloud.com, a vendor platform, not a Cedar County domain
- What was triedcedarcountymo.gov/sheriff, /commission, /theme/3abec34475.html, the commission news item and the uncategorised news index all opened. https://cedarcountymo.gov/sheriff/jail-rules was not reachable - only search-returned URLs are fetchable here and that path was not returned by the one permitted search.
Source: Cedar County Missouri - Sheriff · checked 2026-09-18
Transparency rating
0/10Closed- ✗The jail is named — not published
- ✗Who is in custody — not published
- ✗Beds and daily population — not published
- ✗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
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
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff James "Jimbob" McCrary
- Runs the jailYes - RSMo 221.020 makes the sheriff the jailer; the county sheriff page publishes jail visitation rules and links a current-inmate lookup
- How the office is filledElected county sheriff
- Office202 South High Street, Stockton, MO 65785
- Background published by the county25 years in law enforcement; joined the City of Stockton Police Department in 1988 and served as its chief of police 1999-2002
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Cedar County Missouri - Sheriff · checked 2026-09-18
The Judges
Missouri's 1940 Nonpartisan Court Plan applies at circuit level in only six jurisdictions - Clay, Greene, Jackson, Platte, St. Louis County and the City of St. Louis. This county is not among them, so its circuit and associate circuit judges are elected on a partisan ballot. They are state judicial officers, not county officials. No judge names and no circuit number were confirmed from a county or court page that could be opened.
- The county's bond schedule
- Share of the jail population held pretrial
- Median time from booking to first appearance
Source: the state judiciary · checked 2026-09-18
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 →
Notes on the record
- Sheriff James 'Jimbob' McCrary confirmed from the county's own domain, cedarcountymo.gov.
- 'named' scored 'no': the county confirms it holds inmates and publishes jail visitation rules, but nowhere on the pages that opened does it give the jail a name or an address.
- 'roster' scored 'no': the county links a current-inmate roster, but it is hosted on the JailTracker vendor platform at omsweb.public-safety-cloud.com, not on the county's own domain. The county does make a roster reachable; it just does not publish it itself.
- 'inspections' scored 'no' and is worth stating plainly: Cedar County publishes its commission minutes only in three local newspapers, not online, so if a board-of-visitors yearly report under RSMo 221.350 or a grand jury jail report under RSMo 221.300 exists it would not be findable on the county website at all.
- Fees scored 'no': the only fee page on the county site is Civil Process Fees, which is about service of process, not jail phone, video-visit or commissary charges.
- No Missouri state agency inspects county jails. The Department of Corrections' inspection authority under RSMo ch. 217 covers state prisons, not ch. 221 county jails. The Missouri Sheriffs' Association publishes non-binding guidance but is a private association, not a regulator. The only statutory mechanisms are local and lay: grand jury visits under RSMo 221.300 and a county board of visitors under RSMo 221.320-221.350, which 221.350 requires to report yearly to the county.
- Missouri has no death-in-custody reporting law; RSMo 58.451(1)(5) only requires notice to the county coroner.
- Three-member County Commission: Presiding Commissioner Kenneth Thornton, Northern District Commissioner Ron Alumbaugh, Southern District Commissioner Ted Anderson. The commission sits each Monday 9am-4pm in Commission Room #5 at the courthouse, 113 South Street, Stockton, and the sessions are open to the public. Minutes are NOT published online - the county states they appear in the Cedar County Republican, the El Dorado Springs Sun News and The Star. That is why the minutes field is empty and why no board-of-visitors or grand jury jail report could be looked for in minutes.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Cedar County and what it costs the people who live here. Nationally, almost 77% of the people who died in local jails in 2019 had not been convicted of anything, and suicide was the leading single cause of those deaths (Bureau of Justice Statistics, Mortality in Local Jails, 2000–2019).
How much is your sheriff — and your judge — costing you?
Your VOTE is POWERFUL.
The sheriff who runs this jail is elected. So are the commissioners who pay for it.
Names verified 2026-09-18 · dollars and outcomes still being gathered