The Detention Center
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- Operated byPettis County Sheriff's Office
- JailThe county publishes a jail telephone line, 660-827-0056, under the sheriff's office, but no jail name, bed count or roster
- Sheriff's office address319 S. Lamine Ave, Sedalia, MO 65301; the Missouri Association of Counties also lists the sheriff and coroner at 319 S Lamine Ave
- BedsNot found
- Daily populationNot found
- What was triedpettiscomo.gov home, sheriff's office, county offices, directory and circuit clerk pages, and pettiscomo.com joint communications reports page, were opened. The commission's separate site pettiscommission.com, linked from the county home page, was refused (PROVENANCE_REQUIRED). The domain pettiscountysheriff.com is a privately owned inmate-lookup site that states it is not operated by any government agency, not the sheriff's office
Source: Pettis County Missouri - Sheriff's Office · 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 Brad Anders
- Runs the jailYes - the sheriff's office page and the county directory both list a jail telephone line under the sheriff's office; no jail name is published
- How the office is filledElected county sheriff
- Statutory basisRSMo 221.020 gives the sheriff of each county the custody, rule, keeping and charge of the jail and of all prisoners in it; RSMo 221.080 puts jail expense on the county commission.
- Office address319 S. Lamine Ave, Sedalia, MO 65301
- Listed contactOffice 660-827-0052; jail 660-827-0056
- Command staff listedMajor Tollie Rowe; Captain Mike Simons (county directory)
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Pettis County Missouri - Sheriff's Office · checked 2026-09-18
The Judges
Missouri's 1940 Nonpartisan Court Plan covers the Supreme Court and Court of Appeals statewide, but at circuit level it applies in only six jurisdictions - Clay, Greene, Jackson, Platte, St. Louis County and St. Louis City. This county is not one of them, so its circuit and associate circuit judges are elected on a partisan ballot. They are state judicial officers, not county officials. The county's own directory lists Circuit Judge Jeff Mittelhauser. The judicial circuit number was not confirmed from a page that could be opened.
Circuit Judge
- Jeff Mittelhauser
- 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
- Pettis County has two county web presences, pettiscomo.gov and pettiscomo.com, plus a separately hosted commission site. The .gov and .com pages that opened were read; the commission site was refused.
- The sheriff's office page is limited to contact details and Crime Stoppers information. It publishes a jail telephone number but no jail name, roster, bed count, bond guidance, visitation rules, or commissary and phone rates, so all ten checks are recorded as no.
- The county offices page refers to older archived financial statements, but no budget document or jail budget figure was opened, so the budget check is no. No board of visitors or grand jury jail report could be examined because the commission site could not be opened.
- The first search for this county returned only commercial inmate-lookup sites, several styled to look official - pettiscountyjailmo.org, pettisjailroster.org, pettiscountyjail.org, pettiscountyarrests.org and pettiscountysheriff.com, the last of which states on its own page that it is privately owned and not operated by any government agency. None is cited or counted.
- No Missouri state agency inspects county jails. The Department of Corrections operates and inspects state prisons under RSMo chapter 217; that authority does not reach chapter 221 county and city jails. The Missouri Sheriffs' Association publishes non-binding jail guidance and runs jail-administrator training, but it is a private association of sheriffs, not a regulator. The only statutory mechanisms are local and lay: a grand jury visit to the jail under RSMo 221.300, and a county board of visitors under RSMo 221.320-221.350, which RSMo 221.350 requires to report yearly to the county.
- Missouri has no death-in-custody reporting law and no public dataset; RSMo 58.451(1)(5) requires only notice to the coroner.
- Three-member County Commission, the ordinary Missouri form. Presiding Commissioner Bill Taylor, Eastern Commissioner Israel Baeza, Western Commissioner Mark Edwards, all listed in the county's own directory. The county home page points to a separate commission site, pettiscommission.com, which could not be opened, so no agenda, minutes or budget document was examined.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Pettis 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