The Wisconsin man who kidnapped Jayme Closs after fatally shooting her parents in cold blood has been moved out of the state and into a maximum-security New Mexico prison for safety reasons, according to a new report.

Jake Patterson, 22, was transferred to a facility within the New Mexico Corrections Department’s system, but a representative for the department could not say which one, the Green Bay Press Gazette reported Wednesday.

He was previously housed at the Dodge Correctional Facility in Waupun.

Wisconsin corrections officials called for Patterson to be relocated to an out-of-state, high-security facility because of “security concerns based on the publicity this case has received,” according to his inmate classification report, obtained by the station.

But corrections officials there also declined to give his precise whereabouts — and the department removed him from a public online database that contains information about incarcerated offenders, according to the report.

Last week, Patterson’s online file indicated that he was moved from Dodge to an out-of-state facility, but the specific location was not included, the paper reported.

He is also missing from the state’s online sex offender registry — but a version of his Wisconsin file appears on the federal database.

Bill Lueders, president of the Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council, told the outlet that it’s unacceptable for corrections officials to conceal Patterson’s whereabouts.

“It’s not acceptable in a free society for the state to lock people up in secret locations,” he said. “It’s just that simple. That’s what dictatorships do.”

It’s unlikely Patterson can be housed in a facility where no one has heard of him — given the widespread national attention the case has received, he told the outlet.

Wisconsin corrections spokeswoman Molly Vidal told the paper that “a balancing test is done on a case-by-case basis to ensure the safety of incarcerated individuals and facility staff is balanced with the general public’s ‘need to know.’”

In late May, a judge ordered Patterson to serve two consecutive life sentences for the murders of James and Denise Closs, and 40 years for the kidnapping of Jayme.

Months after her abduction, Jayme Closs escaped from Patterson’s secluded cabin while her abductor was out.

She flagged down a woman who was walking a dog, and they called local authorities. Patterson was arrested shortly after.