The Detention Center
Daviess-DeKalb Regional Jail
- Operated byJoint facility of Daviess and DeKalb counties, governed by a Board of Directors made up of the two presiding commissioners and the two sheriffs
- Who runs itNot found — the county does not name the current holder
- Answers tothe Daviess-DeKalb Regional Jail's board of directors (both counties' presiding commissioners and sheriffs)
- Why this is differentThe elected county sheriff does not run this jail.
- Jail address102 N Meadows Lane, Pattonsburg, MO 64670
- CapacityUp to 200 inmates — published by the Daviess County sheriff, not by DeKalb County
- Facility websiteddcrj.com
- What was triedhttps://www.dekalbcountymo.com/offices-1.html carries no jail content; the ddcrj.com home page would not open through a redirect loop
Source: Daviess/Dekalb Regional Jail — Resources · checked 2026-09-18
Transparency rating
2/10Closed- ✓The jail is named
- ✓Who is in custody
- ✗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 on a DeKalb County source
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Kasey Keesaman
- Runs the jailNo — DeKalb shares the Daviess-DeKalb Regional Jail, and its sheriff sits on that jail's board of directors
- How the office is filledElected county sheriff
- County page searchThe county's own Offices page links to a Sheriff page but publishes no officeholder names at all, and no first-party DeKalb sheriff page could 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)DeKalb County Sheriff's Office, PO Box 137 107 West Main Street, Maysville, MO 64469; phone (816) 449-5802
- 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
Missouri's 1940 Nonpartisan Court Plan covers the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals statewide, but at circuit level it reaches only Clay, Greene, Jackson, Platte, St. Louis County and St. Louis City. DeKalb 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 name and no circuit number could be sourced from any DeKalb County page.
Circuit and Associate Circuit Court
- 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 share the cost of a regional jail. A regional board 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 belong to the Daviess-DeKalb Regional Jail, whose board of directors is both counties' presiding commissioners and sheriffs.
- The boardBoard of County Commissioners →
Notes on the record
- DeKalb County does not run a jail of its own. Its prisoners go to the Daviess-DeKalb Regional Jail at Pattonsburg, owned jointly with Daviess County and governed by a board made up of both counties' presiding commissioners and sheriffs. That is the finding, not a gap.
- DeKalb County's own domain, dekalbcountymo.com, is exceptionally thin. Its Offices page lists departments as links but names no officeholder at all — not the sheriff, not a commissioner, not the coroner. The sheriff and the commissioners are therefore recorded as Not found rather than guessed. Sub-pages of that site could not be reached, because constructed addresses are refused for want of provenance.
- The named and roster checks rest on the regional jail's own site, ddcrj.com, treated as first-party to both owner counties because its governing board is those counties' own elected officials. Capacity is marked no for DeKalb because the 200-bed figure appears only on the Daviess sheriff's site, not on anything DeKalb publishes.
- The county seat is recorded as Maysville from the research assignment. It could not be confirmed from any page opened on a DeKalb County domain, so seat_source is left empty rather than filled with a source that does not say it.
- A site at dekalbcountysheriffsoffice.com ranks second in searches for the DeKalb sheriff and looks official, but it states that it is 'a privately owned informational website that is not owned or operated by any state government agency.' It is a commercial lookalike. Nothing from it — including the staff names it prints for the regional jail — is used here.
- No Missouri state agency inspects county jails. RSMo chapter 217 gives the Department of Corrections authority over state prisons, not over chapter 221 county jails, and the Missouri Sheriffs' Association is a private body without regulatory power. The only statutory mechanisms are local and lay: a grand jury visit under RSMo 221.300, and a county board of visitors under RSMo 221.320 to 221.350, whose yearly report RSMo 221.350 requires. Nothing of the kind was found published by DeKalb County.
- County Commission. The county's Offices page lists a County Commission office but publishes no commissioner names; the DeKalb presiding commissioner sits on the Daviess-DeKalb Regional Jail board of directors. No agendas, minutes or budget were found.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in DeKalb 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.
This jail is run by a regional board. The sheriffs and presiding commissioners who sit on it are elected.
Names verified 2026-09-18 · dollars and outcomes still being gathered