The Detention Center
Kerr County Jail
- Operated byKerr County Sheriff's Office
- County publishes a jail nameYes — the Sheriff's Office runs a page headed "KERR COUNTY JAIL / Administered by the Kerr County Sheriff's Office". The same page also uses "Kerr County Detention Center" in the commissary section
- Address400 Clearwater Paseo, Kerrville, TX 78028
- Jail phone(830) 896-1257; visitation scheduling (830) 315-2480
- Beds328 (page text); TCJS-rated capacity 328, population 148 on 1 Aug 2026
- Corrections staff"over 40 Corrections Officers"
- Booking recordsTyler Technologies public portal, linked from the jail page
- Inmate depositsJAILATM.COM or lobby ATM; $3.25 fee on cash deposits, 10% on credit/debit
- Inmate mailScanned off-site — physical mail to PO Box 591, Longview, TX 75606
- Beds and population, 2026-08148 people held in 328 rated beds
Source: Kerr County Sheriff's Office — Kerr County Jail · checked 2026-08-22
Transparency rating
4/10Partial- ✓The jail is named
- ✓Who is in custody
- ✓Beds and daily population
- ✓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 for the original jail; construction of the current facility began in 2016
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- Beds328 (KCSO jail page; matches TCJS-rated capacity of 328)
Since then
- 2016: construction added 17,885 sq. ft., taking the facility from 192 beds to 328 beds, and installed 120 additional cameras for a total of 240 (Kerr County Sheriff's Office jail page)
The Sheriff
Sheriff Larry L. Leitha
- Published as"Larry L. Leitha, Sheriff"; the site calls him Kerr County's fourteenth Sheriff, elected 2020
- Chief DeputyCris LaLonde
- Jail AdministratorSylvia Foraker (About page); the Jail page names Lt. Andrew Blizzard as Jail Administrator — the two pages disagree
- Asst. Jail AdministratorLt. Matthew Jenkins (selected 2026)
- Address400 Clearwater Paseo, Kerrville, TX 78028
- Phone830-896-1216; jail 830-896-1257
- StaffingSite states 119-124 employees, 33-59 deputies (figures differ between the Home and About pages)
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Kerr County Sheriff's Office — About the KCSO · checked 2026-08-22
The Judges
Kerr County runs a dedicated Magistrate Court located inside the Kerr County Jail, where defendants make first appearance within 48 hours and the magistrate "discuss[es] bond amounts and types, any additional bond conditions". The county links its full Court Plan for Prompt Magistration at https://tidc.tamu.edu/IDPlan/ViewPlan.aspx?PlanID=624. Each JP has its own page at /kerr-county-all-departments/justice-of-the-peace-precinct-1 through -4. The Kerr County Courthouse is closed and courts are sitting at alternate locations after flood damage.
County Judge
- Rob Kelly
County Court at Law
- The Honorable Susan F. Harris
District Courts
- The Honorable M. Patrick Maguire (198th Judicial District)
- The Honorable Albert D. Pattillo, III (216th Judicial District)
Justices of the Peace
- Honorable Mitzi French (Pct. 1)
- Honorable J.R. Hoyne (Pct. 2)
- Honorable Taylor Robertson (Pct. 3)
- Honorable William "Bill" E. Ragsdale (Pct. 4)
Magistrate Court
- Ashley Warnix
- 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
- Kerr County is the only county in this group that publishes a real jail page: name, bed count, staffing, visitation rules, commissary and deposit terms, and a live booking-records search.
- Capacity check counted for the published 328-bed figure. Daily population is NOT published by the county — the 148 figure for 1 Aug 2026 comes from the state TCJS report, not from Kerr County.
- Deposit fees are published ($3.25 cash / 10% card at the lobby ATM) but phone, video-visit and commissary prices are not, so the fees check is "no".
- The jail page says the facility is "capable of housing in-county inmates as well as inmates from select jurisdictions by contract", but no contract or per-diem rate is published, so the contracts check is "no".
- The Bail Bond Board page (https://www.kerrcountytx.gov/kerr-county-all-departments/kerr-county-treasurer/kerr-county-bail-bond-board) publishes board rules, membership and meeting minutes, but no plain guidance on how a family member posts bond, so bond_info is "no".
- The jail page and the About page disagree on who the Jail Administrator is: the Jail page names Lt. Andrew Blizzard, the About page names Sylvia Foraker.
- TCJS publishes no county-specific inspection page or report URL. Its only county-specific PDFs are non-compliance notices, and this county is not on the Non-Compliant Jails list at https://www.tcjs.state.tx.us/non-compliant-jails/ as of 22 Aug 2026.
- Four commissioners plus the County Judge, who presides. Pct. 1 Tom Jones, Pct. 2 Rich Paces, Pct. 3 Jeff Holt, Pct. 4 Don Harris; County Judge Rob Kelly. Court meets the 2nd and 4th Mondays at 9 a.m.
- County seat: Texas State Library and Archives Commission — Counties and County Seats
The record
5 people have died in the Kerr County jail since 2021.
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 Kerr 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