The Detention Center
Kendall County Detention Center
- Operated byKendall County Sheriff's Office
- County publishes a jail nameYes — "the new Kendall County Detention Center", and the mission statement names it "the Kendall County Adult Detention Facility (Kendall County Jail)".
- Beds"a 153-bed facility" (Detention Center page)
- Jail address8 Staudt St Box #7, Boerne, TX 78006; phone 830-249-4989; fax 830-249-0036
- Jail AdministratorCaptain Robert Green; Sergeants Christopher Ortiz and Jason Barter; Commissary Lisa Dusek
- Staffing37 detention officers on four shifts, plus a kitchen supervisor and an inmate services officer
- Bond fee$15.00 fee on surety bonds, maximum two fees ($30.00) per person per jailing, payable by money order to Kendall County
- Communications ratesCidnet: 1 MB = 30¢; remote video ~40¢/minute; voice ~18¢/minute; regular mail message 10¢; picture mail 20¢ and up; on-site video visits free
- VisitationTwo 20-minute face-to-face visits plus two on-site video visits per inmate per week
- MagistrationStreamed live and open to the public 7 days a week, 8 a.m.–noon, via the JP Precinct 4 page
- Beds and population, 2026-0893 people held in 153 rated beds
Source: Kendall County Sheriff's Office — Detention Center · checked 2026-08-22
Transparency rating
5/10Partial- ✓The jail is named
- ✓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
- ✓Phone, video and commissary rates
The Building
You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.
- Year builtNot found
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- Beds153 ("a 153-bed facility", Sheriff's Office Detention Center page); TCJS rated capacity also 153 (Inmate Population Report, August 2026)
Since then
- Described only as "the new Kendall County Detention Center"; no build date, cost or funding published
The Sheriff
Sheriff Al Auxier
- Published as"Al Auxier - Sheriff" on the Administration page; signs the Sheriff's newsletter "Al Auxier, Sheriff"
- Chief DeputyKevin Reser
- Detention CaptainRobert Green
- LieutenantsButch Matjeka (Criminal Investigations), Jon Rutledge (Patrol), Kevin Klaerner (Support Services)
- Office6 Staudt St., Boerne, TX 78006
- Phone830-249-9721 (24-hour)
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Kendall County Sheriff's Office — Administration · checked 2026-08-22
The Judges
The 498th District Court was created in 2025 and its first judge was appointed by the Governor; its page is https://www.kendallcountytx.gov/511/498th-District-Court. Kendall County has no County Court at Law; the County Judge hears the constitutional county court docket. Justice of the Peace Precinct 4 streams magistration hearings live and states they are open to the public. JPs are the magistrates who set bond at first appearance in Texas.
County Judge
- Shane Stolarczyk
District Courts
- Kirsten B. Cohoon (451st Judicial District)
- Katherine McDaniel (498th Judicial District)
Justices of the Peace
- Michele Van Stavern (Pct. 1)
- David Neighbor (Pct. 2)
- Debby S. Hudson (Pct. 3)
- Frieda J. Pressler (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
- Kendall is the most complete jail disclosure in this group: named facility, bed count, live roster with last-booking timestamps, bail bond page with the actual bond fee, published communications rates, and live-streamed magistration.
- Capacity is marked no even though the 153-bed figure is published, because no daily population count is published — only the live roster.
- The Sheriff's Office also publishes a 2025 Annual Report (https://www.kendallcountysheriff.com/annual-report) and a public policy manual.
- TCJS publishes no county-specific inspection report page; Kendall County does not appear on the TCJS Non-Compliant Jails list as of this check.
- Four commissioners plus the County Judge, who presides. Precinct 1 Jennifer McCall, Precinct 2 Andra M. Wisian, Precinct 3 Richard Chapman, Precinct 4 Chad Carpenter; County Judge Shane Stolarczyk. The court meets the second and fourth Tuesday of each month at 9 a.m.
- County seat: Texas State Library and Archives Commission — Counties and County Seats
The record
No death in the Kendall County jail appears on the state's record since 2016.
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 Kendall 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