Texas County Juvenile Facility Overview
Texas County Juvenile Detention Center appears in Oklahoma Office of Juvenile Affairs and Oklahoma Senate materials as a juvenile detention facility in Hooker. It is not the same facility as Texas County Jail in Guymon, and it should not be described as an adult jail, public inmate roster, or adult mugshot source. The facility map identifies it as historically county owned and operated for juvenile secure detention, with OJA contract involvement in the period reviewed.
The strongest official detail comes from OJA board materials from June 2020. Those materials identify "Texas County Detention Center" as a 6-bed facility owned and operated by Texas County, with OJA paying $394,000 per fiscal year. The same packet gives juvenile detention admission data for FY2019 and FY2020 current data. It also describes average length of stay for that juvenile detention context.
The current status cannot be assumed from the historic facility name. A June 2020 Oklahoma Senate release says the Oklahoma Board of Juvenile Affairs reduced contracted juvenile detention beds at the Texas County Juvenile Detention Center in Hooker from six to zero. OJA COVID response material also said the Texas County Detention Center in Hooker suspended admissions after staffing issues during that period. Any current placement, visit, or custody check must be verified with OJA, Texas County, or the court-authorized juvenile process.
Note: This is a juvenile facility reference with 2020 contracted beds reduced to zero, so verify current operation before relying on it.
Texas County Juvenile Status
The key fact for this facility is the 2020 bed change. OJA materials show the Hooker juvenile facility had six beds in the data reviewed. Oklahoma Senate material then reports that OJA reduced contracted juvenile detention beds from six to zero in June 2020. That does not prove the building no longer exists, and it does not prove no county or court use could ever occur. It does mean a public page must not present the Texas County Juvenile Detention Center as an active, ordinary holding site without a fresh official confirmation.
The same Senate release said the Hooker facility served at least three other counties and could serve up to 12 counties if Woodward was full. That is a Panhandle-specific custody issue. When juvenile detention capacity changes in a rural county, distance to the next approved juvenile bed can affect families, law enforcement transport, attorneys, and court scheduling. The facility therefore belongs in the Texas County facility map, but with a clear status caveat.
| Item | Sourced detail | How to use it |
|---|---|---|
| Facility type | Juvenile secure detention | Do not treat as an adult jail roster. |
| Historic beds | 6 beds | OJA June 2020 board material. |
| Contracted beds after OJA action | Reduced from 6 to 0 | Oklahoma Senate release, June 2020. |
| Admissions status | Suspended admissions after staffing issues in COVID-era OJA report | Verify current operation before relying on the facility. |
Texas County Juvenile Lookup
A juvenile custody question does not follow the same path as an adult Texas County Jail search. Juvenile records are more restricted, and juvenile detention is tied to court authority, youth status, parents or guardians, counsel, and juvenile justice agencies. The public should not expect a searchable roster, public booking profile, or mugshot gallery for the Texas County Juvenile Detention Center.
If the person is an adult, use the Texas County Sheriff's Office and the adult jail process. If the person is under juvenile court authority, start with the court-authorized channel, counsel, parent or guardian contacts, OJA, or Texas County officials. If there is uncertainty about age or custody status, first separate adult local custody from juvenile custody, then verify whether the Hooker facility has any current role.
- Confirm whether the person is a juvenile or an adult. Adult bookings should be checked through the Texas County Jail process.
- If the case is juvenile, do not search adult mugshot or jail roster sites for a public profile.
- Contact the proper juvenile court, attorney, guardian, OJA, or Texas County channel that is authorized to discuss the case.
- Ask whether the Texas County Juvenile Detention Center in Hooker has any current operating role after the 2020 contracted-bed reduction.
- For adult court filings after arrest, use ODCR or OSCN only when the case is not sealed, juvenile, or otherwise restricted.
For adult custody at the primary county jail, the separate Texas County Jail custody page explains the sheriff phone, records request, ODCR, OSCN, ODOC, VINE, BOP, and ICE fallback chain.
Texas County Juvenile Contact
Official OJA and legislative materials reviewed identify the juvenile facility in Hooker, but the official materials cited in the research did not provide a verified street address on the same level as the sheriff's adult jail page. Historic directories and non-official facility indexes give 502 S. Fields, Hooker, OK 73945 and 580-652-2933. Because those address and phone details were not confirmed by the preferred official sources, they should be treated as historic or requiring verification.
Texas County Juvenile Detention Center
Hooker, OK
Historic/unverified address: 502 S. Fields
Hooker, OK 73945
Historic/unverified phone: 580-652-2933
Current operation must be verified with OJA or Texas County.
The adult sheriff office contact remains useful when the question is whether a person is in Texas County Jail rather than juvenile detention. The sheriff's verified adult jail contact is 1102 S. Ellison, Guymon, OK 73942, phone 580-338-4000. That contact should not be used to imply that juvenile records are public adult jail records.
Texas County Juvenile Data
OJA materials provide the best facility-specific juvenile figures. The June 2020 board packet gives the historic six-bed capacity and lists FY2019 and FY2020 current detention admissions. It reports 60 total admissions in FY2019 and 46 total admissions in FY2020 current data. For FY2020 current admissions, 24 were from Texas County and 22 were transported from a home county to Texas County. The same material gives average length of stay as 14 days in FY2019 and 19 days in FY2020 current data.
| Period | Figure | Source context |
|---|---|---|
| FY2019 | 60 admissions | OJA board packet for Texas Detention. |
| FY2019 | 14-day average length of stay | OJA board packet. |
| FY2020 current | 46 admissions | 24 from Texas County and 22 transported from a home county to Texas County. |
| FY2020 current | 19-day average length of stay | OJA board packet. |
These figures are not current population numbers. They are historic juvenile detention data from the period when OJA took action on contracted beds. A current count, if any, was not located in the official adult jail or OJA materials summarized in the research.
Texas County Juvenile Visits
No current public visitation schedule for Texas County Juvenile Detention Center was located in the official sources reviewed. Because the facility is juvenile, any visit process would be different from an adult jail lobby visit. Parent or guardian status, court authority, attorney role, facility rules, youth privacy, and the current operating status all matter before a visit can be planned.
The adult jail visitation gap and the juvenile facility status gap should be kept separate. Texas County Jail in Guymon has no official public visit schedule located in the sheriff materials. Texas County Juvenile Detention Center has an additional issue: OJA-contracted beds were reduced to zero in 2020, and the facility's current operation must be verified. Do not travel to Hooker based only on historic directory data.
| Visit question | Status | Action |
|---|---|---|
| Public juvenile visitation schedule | Not located | Verify with OJA, Texas County, or court-authorized contacts. |
| Parent or guardian visits | Not published in research | Use the case-authorized juvenile process. |
| Attorney visits | Not published in research | Counsel should contact the juvenile court or verified facility channel. |
| Adult jail visits | Separate facility | Call Texas County Jail at 580-338-4000 for adult visit status. |
Texas County Juvenile Mail
No current juvenile mail, phone, video, commissary, trust account, or deposit vendor was located for the Texas County Juvenile Detention Center in the official research. The Tiger Commissary page documented in the adult jail research is for Texas County OK Jail, not for a juvenile facility in Hooker. It should not be reused as a juvenile detention money source without official confirmation.
For a juvenile matter, ask the authorized case contact what communication is allowed and where mail, if allowed, should be sent. Juvenile facilities can limit correspondence, calls, visits, and disclosure more tightly than adult jails. Do not send money, packages, books, or personal items to the historic Hooker address unless OJA, Texas County, or an authorized facility contact confirms the facility is operating and accepts the item.
| Service | Documented for juvenile facility? | Reason for omission |
|---|---|---|
| Commissary vendor | No | No juvenile-specific vendor found in official sources. |
| Money deposits | No | No deposit policy found for the Hooker juvenile facility. |
| Mail rules | No | No current mail policy found. |
| Phone or video vendor | No | No juvenile phone or video provider found. |
Texas County Juvenile Records
Adult Oklahoma jail register and booking information may be available under the Oklahoma Open Records Act, but juvenile records have a different privacy posture. The research does not support publishing a public juvenile roster, booking photograph source, or open profile field inventory for the Texas County Juvenile Detention Center. Treating a juvenile detention name like an adult inmate search page would blur two different systems and could mislead families or searchers.
If a case later appears in adult court, ODCR or OSCN may help locate public Texas County District Court records. If the matter remains juvenile or sealed, public search tools may not show the record, and access may be limited to parties, guardians, attorneys, or authorized agencies. The right question is not "which roster has the youth," but "which authorized juvenile court or agency channel can confirm placement and next steps."
- Juvenile detention
- Secure custody for youth under juvenile authority, subject to privacy and court controls.
- OJA
- The Oklahoma Office of Juvenile Affairs, the state juvenile justice agency referenced in the facility research.
- Contracted beds
- Juvenile detention capacity paid for or arranged through a state or agency contract.
- Adult jail roster
- A custody list for adult jail detainees, which should not be used as a juvenile detention record source.
Texas County Juvenile Context
The Hooker juvenile detention issue is unusually local. Texas County sits in the Oklahoma Panhandle, and official county history describes a large rural county with communities spread across the High Plains. In that setting, the loss or reduction of a small juvenile detention bed contract can affect more than one town. The Oklahoma Senate release said the Hooker facility served at least three other counties and could serve up to 12 counties if Woodward was full.
That regional role is why the facility remains important even with the 2020 zero-bed contract caveat. The correct treatment is careful and limited: the facility was historically documented as a six-bed juvenile detention center in Hooker, OJA materials show juvenile admissions and length-of-stay data, and current operation needs verification. The page should never suggest that the public can browse juvenile mugshots, adult booking records, or a current roster for this facility.
Note: Verify any current juvenile placement through authorized juvenile channels before contacting or visiting the historic Hooker facility location.