Independent editorial reviewArchive edition · October 2026
TCF
THE CONDUCT FILE
Officer conduct. Public record.
ON RECORD16 files
File 04 · Missouri · Draft

Carter County Sheriff’s Office

Review: Jan. 1, 2025 – Oct. 13, 2026; historical limits below
TCF Available-Record Grade 1.0 · Working model

F

Provisional — limited record. Only the state sheriff-roster contact entry is graded. It lists phone, address and fax; the bounded row does not state emergency routing or a service timetable. No conduct is assessed.

Department research fileSaved review · Oct. 13, 2026
Original report cardView full size
Original Carter County report card. Text summary, scoring, and limitations are provided on this page.

Original saved artwork. Select the card to inspect it at full resolution.

Category / evidence statusTCF Available-Record Grade 1.0
Category assessment from the saved Carter County draft
CategoryEarned / assessed weightAssessed checks / category coverage
Conduct, force and custodyNR (Unknown)0 of 7 (0%)
AccountabilityNR (Unknown)0 of 5 (0%)
TransparencyNR (Unknown)0 of 4 (0%)
Training and supervisionNR (Unknown)0 of 2 (0%)
Service and communication2.5 / 51 of 2 (50%)

The record so far

Read the complete PDF
Tcf Evidence Assessment · 2026-10-13

Bounded directory publication review

The current-edition state roster entry meets two P2 components: sheriff phone/mailing location and a separate fax route. Emergency routing and a service/escalation timetable are absent from the bounded entry. Blocked agency pages were not treated as evidence that those features do not exist. Scope: Only the Carter County sheriff entry in the 2025-2026 Missouri Roster, PDF p. 107 (printed p. 100), reviewed 2026-10-13. A state-published public-contact set; blocked agency pages are excluded from the scored set.

Saved research · page 10
Court Decision · 2012-07-09

Historical federal sentencing of former sheriff and deputy

DOJ reported former Sheriff Tommy Lee Adams received a 120-month sentence for four firearm felonies and former Deputy Steffanie Kearbey received 60 months for two stolen-firearm felonies. Sentences on each person’s counts ran concurrently. These events do not describe the current administration. Scope: Former officials only; outside the current event-review window; no current check scored.

Saved research · page 10
Other Verified Context · 2026-03 publication; fiscal 2023

County financial audit reports historical accounting findings

The county audit identified budget compliance, interfund-transfer classification and federal-award schedule deficiencies. Management responses describe plans or assertions; current remedial effectiveness was not verified. Scope: County government fiscal-2023 systems; not sustained current officer-conduct findings.

Saved research · page 10
Agency Statement · 2026-08-18

Reported East Carter school-safety partnership

KFVS reported that East Carter schools and the sheriff’s office introduced MyFlare alerts to dispatch, including live camera information. The report describes school-employee instruction. No independent outcome evaluation or sworn training roster was reviewed. Scope: Service initiative attributed to school/agency officials; historical evidence cutoff October 6.

Saved research · page 10
Other Verified Context · 2025; grant announcement 2025-10-03

State designation and reported technology grant

DPS listed Carter County as a 2025 Blue Shield community. KWOC attributed to Sheriff Bradwell a $50,000 technology-grant selection for radios and laptops; receipt and spending were not independently reviewed. Scope: Favorable program context, not accreditation or a training-completion/conduct ruling.

Saved research · page 10
Licensing Decision · 2026-09-30 list update; decision dates unspecified

Historical names on POST status list

POST listed Tommy L. Adams and Steffanie M. Kearbey as Revoked. The roster is a license-status source, not the underlying reasoned orders, and its update date does not date the revocations. Scope: Historical names; does not establish current staffing or complete personnel clearance.

Saved research · page 10
Court Decision · 2021-03-29

Different-agency historical case excluded

In Mesey v. City of Van Buren, Document 68, the court granted summary judgment to Roper, the City of Van Buren and Alonzo Bradwell. Bradwell appeared in his Van Buren police role. Scope: Different agency/role and outside current window; excluded from Carter County scoring.

Saved research · page 11
Scope and evidence gaps

Rescored the archived October 6, 2026 TCF report against TCF Available-Record Grade 1.0 on October 13, 2026; old points were not translated. Historical event findings, crime/staffing context and social research retain the 2026-10-06 cutoff (the traffic-stop file was originally retrieved October 5 and its excerpt reviewed October 6). Only the Missouri Roster (S23), agency homepage/FAQ/forms/staff/accessibility pages (S24-S28), the already-cited fiscal-2023 audit (S29), and the Auditor county publication index (S30) were reopened. The October 13 period end marks this limited publication refresh, not a complete updated investigation. The only scored check describes a bounded state directory publication. It is not representative of department-wide conduct or service quality; source subsets and cutoffs differ across agencies. Agency homepage, FAQ, forms, staff and accessibility/footer pages returned maintenance on October 13. Older search-indexed content was excluded from numeric scoring; an access error is not a records refusal. All outcome checks remain Unknown: the retained record lacks complete current primary episodes and applicable benchmarks. A program designation, grant, service initiative or public comment is not operational conduct proof. The original fiscal audit concerns 2023, and former-official convictions/licensing context is historical. These records were not used to grade current personnel. Current primary staffing, reserves, adopted sheriff operating/capital budget, FBI offense counts and reporting months remain unresolved. Secondary workforce counts are leads only. Raw social text/private identity mappings are not available in the saved PDF. Archived counts and NR result are disclosed separately; no fabricated comments or recalculated index are supplied. The authentic badge was extracted directly and unaltered from the archived PDF, with the original white background. Its old profile provenance remains dated October 6. No new incident, court, licensing or social investigation was performed; original Case.net/access gaps and nonexhaustive search limitations remain. No requests or agency contact were sent. The original search was a nonexhaustive public-web discovery review across identity, policies, internal affairs, oversight, courts, staffing, budget, FBI UCR, balanced media and seven social platforms. No complete incident sampling frame was obtained. The migration is not a representative conduct sample; directory publication evidence measures only the identified published contact set.

Selected source links

Links reproduced from the saved research. Findings retain the report’s original review date.

The full source register is in the research PDF.

Agency response

Not requested by TCF for the original draft or this migration. Existing public agency statements are attributed to their sources; no records request or right-of-reply request was sent.