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

The Detention Center

Kingfisher County Justice Center

Operated byKingfisher County Sheriff's Office
Name as the sheriff's office writes it'Kingfisher County Justice Center' - the title of the Sheriff's official detention page
Dedicated funding22.5% of a one-fourth percent (1/4%) county sales tax, originally approved Nov. 13, 2007 and extended by voters Nov. 14, 2017 for ten years from Jan. 1, 2018
What the tax pays forDesign, construction, financing, furnishings, capital facilities and improvements, equipment, fixtures, site acquisition, site preparation, street improvements and maintenance and operation of a new detention facility in Kingfisher County; the sales tax is ple…
Old jailThe same measure funds destruction and razing of the old jail and construction of an inmate holding facility at or near the existing courthouse
Jail-ST fund receipts FY2024$1,127,773
Jail-ST fund balance FY2024 close$1,300,425

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

Transparency rating

1/10Closed

✓The jail is named
✗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 Kingfisher 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 byTwenty-two and a half percent (22.5%) of a one-fourth of one percent (1/4%) county sales tax. Kingfisher County voters approved the original 1/4% tax Nov. 13, 2007 and on Nov. 14, 2017 approved extending it for ten years from Jan. 1, 2018.
BedsNot found

Since then

2007/2017 sales tax measure: razing of the old jail and construction of a separate inmate holding facility at or near the existing courthouse - cost not published

The Sheriff

Sheriff Aaron Pitts

NoteWritten on the Sheriff's own .gov site as 'Sheriff Aaron Pitts'; the site description reads 'The Kingfisher County Sheriff's Office, under the leadership of Sheriff Aaron Pitts...'. Corroborated by .

Still needed

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

Source: Kingfisher 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

Associate District Judge Lance Schneiter (Kingfisher County)
District Judge Jason Seigars (resident of Garfield County; serves the whole 4th District)
District Judge Paul Woodward (resident of Garfield County; serves the whole 4th District)
District Judge Justin Eilers (resident of Woodward County; serves the whole 4th District)

Kingfisher County Courthouse, PO Box 328, Kingfisher, OK 73750 (Court Clerk Lauren Stroh, P.O. Box 328, Kingfisher, OK 73750)

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

TWO SEPARATE OFFICIAL WEB PRESENCES that disagree in coverage: the county portal at (which does NOT name the sheriff) and a standalone Sheriff's site at (which does).
The Sheriff's .gov site is a JavaScript-only build (Figma Sites). Every page returns the same generic meta description to non-JavaScript clients and no page text; its /services/detention page title 'Kingfisher County Justice Center' is the only facility name recoverable.
Sheriff of record changed between the FY2024 state audit (Dennis L. Banther) and the current Sheriff's site plus the Oklahoma Sheriffs' Association (Aaron Pitts).
The county's /fees page publishes only County Clerk fees - no sheriff or jail fees.
OSDH jail inspection reports are published only inside a JavaScript-gated Box folder linked from ; the listing could not be enumerated without a browser.
OSCN's web court directories are behind a Cloudflare CAPTCHA; court data comes from the Oklahoma Supreme Court's 2026 Judicial Directory PDF on oscn.net.
Deepest okcounties.org archive in this group: Agenda and Minutes document types with year filters for 2020 through 2026.

These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Kingfisher 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 Kingfisher 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