The Detention Center
The county publishes no formal name for this facility.
- Operated byArcher County Sheriff's Office
- County publishes a jail nameNo — the Sheriff page offers a "Current Jail Roster" link but never names the facility.
- Sheriff's Office / law enforcement centre address100 Law Enforcement Way, Archer City, Texas 76351
- Phone940-574-2571
- Roster hostKologik (rms.kologik.com), linked from the county site
- What was triedhttps://www.co.archer.tx.us/page/archer.Sheriff ; https://www.co.archer.tx.us/ ; https://www.co.archer.tx.us/page/archer.Financial.Budget
- Beds and population, 2026-0826 people held in 48 rated beds
Source: Archer County — Sheriff · checked 2026-08-22
Transparency rating
2/10Closed- ✗The jail is named — not published
- ✓Who is in custody
- ✗Beds and daily population — not published
- ✓What it costs taxpayers
- ✗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 Jack Curd
- Title as publishedCounty Sheriff
- Physical address100 Law Enforcement Way, Archer City, Texas 76351
- Mailing addressP.O. Box 517, Archer City, Texas 76351
- Phone940-574-2571
- Emailsheriff@co.archer.tx.us
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Archer County — Sheriff · checked 2026-08-22
The Judges
Archer County publishes no County Court at Law. The county's own page gives the district judge's name without stating the judicial district number.
County Judge
- Randall C. Jackson
District Court
- Trish Coleman Byars
Justices of the Peace
- R. Joe Aulds (Pct. 1)
- Corky Scarbrough (Pct. 2)
- Robby Shawver (Pct. 3)
- Missy Hoegger (Pct. 4)
- The county's bond schedule
- Share of the jail population held pretrial
- Median time from booking to first appearance
Source: the state judiciary · checked 2026-08-22
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
- The roster is a third-party Kologik page the county links from its own homepage and Sheriff page. When checked on 22 August 2026 it redirected to klag-pr-app-jailroster.azurewebsites.us and returned HTTP 403 to an automated client; scored yes because the county publishes the link, but the link did not open for us.
- Archer County publishes adopted annual budgets back to FY2019, but the FY2026 and FY2025 PDFs are scanned images with no text layer, so the jail and sheriff line items could not be read directly. Scored yes on the strength of the county publishing its complete adopted budget.
- Archer County does not appear on the TCJS non-compliant jails list.
- Four commissioners plus the County Judge, who presides. Pct. 1 Wade Scarbrough, Pct. 2 Darin Wolf, Pct. 3 Kendall Coleman, Pct. 4 Todd Herring; County Judge Randall C. Jackson.
- County seat: Texas State Library and Archives Commission — Counties and County Seats
The record
1 people have died in the Archer County jail since 2025.
Deaths: Texas Justice Initiative, the cleaned copy of the Texas Attorney General’s custodial death reports — the state’s own public index carries no cause of death and has not been refreshed since August 2025. Population: Texas Commission on Jail Standards monthly report. Counted, not estimated.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Archer 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 2026-08-22 · dollars and outcomes still being gathered