Blaine County, Oklahoma — The Jail, the Sheriff, the Judges

The Detention Center

The county publishes no formal name for this facility.

Operated byBlaine County Sheriff's Office (the county sheriff page recites the statutory duty that the sheriff 'has power and authority to operate the County Jail', but the county never names the facility)
County publishes a jail nameNo — the county site has no jail, detention or inmate page
Sheriff's office address205 N. Burford, Watonga, OK 73772
Phone / fax580.623.5111 / 580.623.7221
Sheriff's office emailblaineso@pldi.net (a local ISP domain, not a government domain)
What was triedFull link crawl of blaine.okcounties.org (offices, departments, meetings, fees, bids, resolutions, where-do-i); Oklahoma Sheriffs' Association Blaine page (lists no agency website); web search for a Blaine County Sheriff's Office site.

Source: Blaine County — official source · checked August 21, 2026

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

This rates disclosure, not conduct — what Blaine County publishes about a jail its taxpayers own, checked August 21, 2026. Nothing here says the jail is run well or badly. Every mark moves the moment the county posts the document.

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 Travis Daughtery

NoteSPELLING DISCREPANCY between official sources: Blaine County's own website writes 'Travis Daughtery' while the Oklahoma Sheriffs' Association writes 'Travis Daugherty'.

Still needed

Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail

Source: Blaine County Sheriff's Office · checked August 21, 2026

The Judges

Oklahoma elects its district judges in nonpartisan elections. District and associate district judges set bond and decide who waits in this jail.

District Court, Judicial District 4

Hon. Allison Lafferty — Associate District Judge, Blaine County
Hon. Justin Eilers — District Judge, 4th Judicial District (chambers: Woodward County Courthouse, 1600 Main Street, Woodward, OK 73801, (580) 256-6716)
Hon. Jason Seigars — District Judge, 4th Judicial District (chambers: Garfield County Courthouse, 114 W. Broadway Ave., Enid, OK 73701)
Hon. Paul Woodward — District Judge, 4th Judicial District (chambers: Garfield County Courthouse, 114 West Broadway, Enid, OK 73701, (580) 237-5031)

Blaine County Courthouse, 212 N. Weigel St., Watonga, OK 73772

Still needed

The county's bond schedule
Share of the jail population held pretrial
Median time from booking to first appearance

Source: the state judiciary · checked August 21, 2026

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

SHERIFF NAME SPELLED TWO WAYS in official sources — county site: 'Travis Daughtery'; Oklahoma Sheriffs' Association: 'Travis Daugherty'.
Blaine County's ACCO/KellPro site is maintained and posts current agendas, but carries no jail disclosure of any kind. Its /fees page offers 'Fee & Bond Schedules' — statutory court bond schedules, not instructions for posting bond at the jail, so 'bond_info' is recorded false.
NOT THE COUNTY JAIL — IMPORTANT: Watonga (the county seat) also hosts the Diamondback Correctional Facility, a 2,160-capacity private prison owned by CoreCivic.
The sheriff's office publishes a private-ISP email (blaineso@pldi.net) rather than a government-domain address.
STATE, NOT COUNTY: Oklahoma's State Department of Health inspects all county jails at least annually under the Oklahoma Jail Standards Act (74 O.S. §§ 192-194) and posts 'Jail Inspection Results by Year' 2015-2026 at (repository State function, not county disclosure.
No single board landing page on the ACCO/KellPro template; the three commissioners have individual pages under /offices. The /meetings page publishes agendas and special-meeting notices.

These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Blaine 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.

The sheriff is on your ballot

The county election board runs the polling place in Blaine County and prints the ballot the sheriff’s name is on. Links from the Oklahoma State Election Board and vote.gov.

Names verified August 21, 2026 · dollars and outcomes still being gathered