The Detention Center
Not found
- Operated byClark County Sheriff's Office (by operation of RSMo 221.020; not confirmed from a county page)
- Named on a first-party pageNo. The Clark County government homepage mentions no jail facility at all
- What was triedhttps://clarkcountymo.org/ opened successfully but names no jail, no sheriff and no commissioners. https://clarkmosheriff.com/Inmate_Services.html returned a 302 redirect loop between its https and http forms and could not be read. https://clarkcountymo.org/county-offices/sheriff/ was refused (PROVENANCE_REQUIRED). https://www.mocounties.com/clark-county failed on a robots.txt connect timeout
Source: Clark County Missouri Government · 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 Shawn Webster
- Runs the jailRSMo 221.020 makes the sheriff of each Missouri county the jailer; Clark County is not one of the statutory exceptions
- How the office is filledElected county officer
- County page searchThe county homepage lists a Sheriff among its twelve county offices but names no officeholder; the Sheriff's office subpage and the separate Sheriff's Office domain could not be opened
- Source of the nameName from the Missouri Law Enforcement Agencies list kept by the Missouri Department of Public Safety (POST program), a state list, not a county page; checked 18 September 2026
- Office (state list)Clark County Sheriff's Office, 518 North Lincoln Street Suite #1, Kahoka, MO 63445; phone (660) 727-2416
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Missouri Law Enforcement Agencies list (Missouri Department of Public Safety, POST program; shown on the Attorney General's Police and Sheriffs Contacts page) - statewide list, checked 18 September 2026 · checked 2026-09-18
The Judges
Clark County is not one of the six Missouri jurisdictions (Clay, Greene, Jackson, Platte, St. Louis County, St. Louis City) where the Missouri Plan reaches the circuit bench, so its circuit and associate circuit judges are elected on a partisan ballot. They are state judicial officers, not county officials. No court page naming them could be opened.
Circuit Court — judges
- Not found
- 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
- The Clark County government homepage was opened and read in full, so this county is examined, not dark — but the homepage carries no jail, sheriff, commissioner, budget or minutes content, and every deeper page was unreachable.
- The separate Sheriff's Office domain clarkmosheriff.com advertises an Inmate Services page, but the server redirects https to http and the fetcher upgrades http back to https, producing a loop. Nothing on that domain could be read, so nothing from it is credited.
- The county seat, Kahoka, is taken from the county's own homepage.
- No Missouri state agency inspects county jails. The only statutory mechanisms are local: a grand jury visit under RSMo 221.300 and a county board of visitors under RSMo 221.320–221.350, whose yearly report RSMo 221.350 requires. No such report was found for Clark County.
- Missouri has no death-in-custody reporting law and no public statewide dataset; RSMo 58.451(1)(5) requires notice to the coroner of a death in custody.
- Missouri's Sunshine Law, RSMo 610.023, sets a three-business-day deadline to act on a records request.
- Clark County is governed by a County Commission; the county homepage lists a County Commission office among its twelve county offices but names no commissioners, and the commission subpage could not be opened.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Clark 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