The Detention Center
Platte County Detention Center
- Operated byPlatte County Sheriff's Office
- Beds180, per the county's sheriff page ('180-bed detention facility')
- Address as publishedThe September 2025 detainee handbook gives 415 Third Street, Suite 10, Platte City, MO 64079 (the courthouse and administrative building address); the sheriff's detention pages give 11724 NW Plaza Cir., Kansas City, MO 64153. The two published addresses are recorded as found, without resolving which is the facility's physical site
- Who is heldState and local pre-trial and post-conviction detainees, per the handbook, which also refers to immigration detainees; no boarding contract or per-diem rate is published
- DesignIndirect supervision, cell-based housing units plus one dorm for detainee workers, per the handbook
- VisitationVideo visits on free public kiosks in the jail lobby
- Phone providerCenturyLink Correctional Communications (ICSolutions); rates not published
- Fees publishedHaircut $13.00 (free if indigent); notary $2.00; letter of incarceration $2.00; copies $0.10 per page; medical, doctor and medication charges deducted from commissary accounts, amounts not given
- BailThe sheriff's site links a Qualified Bonding Agents list (September 2026); the handbook gives no bond-posting instructions
- Daily populationNot published
Source: Platte County Sheriff's Office - Detainee Handbook, September 2025 · checked 2026-09-18
Transparency rating
2/10Closed- ✓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
The Building
You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.
- Year builtNot found
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- Beds180 (county sheriff page)
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Erik Holland
- Runs the jailYes - the county's sheriff page describes the office's 180-bed detention facility, and the sheriff's own site runs a Detention division
- 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 address11724 NW Plaza Cir Dr, Kansas City, MO 64153, per the county's sheriff page
- Listed contact(816) 858-2424
- Kansas City noteThe address is inside Kansas City, but this is the county sheriff's office; the Kansas City Police Department is a separate agency
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Platte County - Sheriff · checked 2026-09-18
The Judges
Platte County is one of the six Missouri jurisdictions - with Clay, Greene, Jackson, St. Louis County and St. Louis City - where the 1940 Missouri Nonpartisan Court Plan applies at circuit level, so its circuit and associate circuit judges are appointed by the governor from a three-name panel sent by a nominating commission and then stand in yes/no retention elections. They are state judicial officers, not county officials. The county's own judges page lists the circuit and associate circuit judges above; it does not state the judicial circuit number. The page lists both an associate circuit judge and the probate judge as Division IV; that is recorded as the county publishes it.
Circuit Court - Presiding Circuit Judge
- Ann Hansbrough, Division II (also Juvenile Judge)
Circuit Judges
- Blake Sherer, Division I
- Myles Perry, Division VI
Associate Circuit Judges
- Quint Shafer, Division III
- Susan Casey, Division IV
- Amy Ashelford, Division V
Probate Court
- Megan Benton, Division IV (as listed by the county)
- 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 →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- One of the six Missouri Plan circuit jurisdictions, and the most transparent county in this group on the judiciary: the county's own judges page names all three circuit judges, three associate circuit judges and the probate judge.
- The sheriff's office runs its own domain, plattesheriff.org, alongside the county's co.platte.mo.us. Both are first-party. The sheriff's site names the Platte County Jail and publishes a detainee handbook naming the Platte County Detention Center; the county's sheriff page publishes a 180-bed capacity, so the named and capacity checks are met on beds alone. No daily population is published.
- The roster check is recorded as no: the sheriff's site links a Current in Custody list on a jail-tracker system, which was not opened. The bond_info check is no: a list of qualified bonding agents is published, but no guidance on how to post bond. The fees check is no: video visits are stated to be free, but no phone or commissary price list is published. The prea check is no: the handbook describes a free PREA hotline and reporting duties, but no PREA audit result is published.
- The agendas and minutes repository opened, but its table of documents did not render, so no board of visitors report, grand jury jail report, jail budget or boarding contract could be examined. No county budget document was opened.
- Search results for this county were dominated by commercial inmate-lookup sites, including plattecountyjail.org, plattejailroster.org (which misplaces the jail in Liberty, the Clay County seat), plattecountyjailmo.org and govbackgroundchecks.com. 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 Scott Fricker, First District Commissioner Allyson Berberich, Second District Commissioner Joe Vanover, all listed on the county's own commissioners page. The commission offices are in Room 210 of the County Courthouse and Administrative Building, 415 Third Street, Platte City. The county publishes an agendas and minutes repository filterable by body, including Commission Session and Work Session.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Platte 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?
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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