Is There a Montgomery County Online Jail Roster?
No official online Montgomery County, Iowa jail roster, current-inmates page, booking feed, recent-bookings report, mugshot gallery, or inmate-profile database was found on the county website or sheriff pages reviewed in the research. The Montgomery County Sheriff's Office page identifies the sheriff as the county's chief law enforcement officer and says jail administration is one of the sheriff's duties, but it does not provide a public roster search link.
For current county custody, start with the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office at 712-623-5107. The Sheriff's Office is listed at the Montgomery County Law Enforcement Center, 106 W Coolbaugh St, Red Oak, IA 51566, with published office hours of Monday-Friday, 7:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Sheriff Jon Spunaugle is identified in the county staff directory. Those details make the sheriff the first local contact for whether a person is held at the Montgomery County Law Enforcement Center / Montgomery County Jail.
How to Find Someone in the Montgomery County Jail
The county lookup workflow is phone-and-records based. Ask whether the person is currently in the Montgomery County Jail, what identifying information staff need, and whether custody status, booking date, bond, or release information can be confirmed by phone. If staff cannot release details informally, use the county's public-information request instructions and direct the request to the department that holds the record.
- Call the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office at 712-623-5107 and ask for current custody confirmation for the Montgomery County Law Enforcement Center / Montgomery County Jail.
- Have the person's full legal name, approximate date of birth or age, arrest date, and arresting agency if known. Red Oak Police, sheriff deputies, Iowa State Patrol, or another agency may have made the arrest.
- If phone confirmation is limited, submit a public-information request to the Sheriff's Office or use the county contact form and select "Sheriff."
- If the custodian is unclear, Montgomery County's public-information instructions point requesters to the Auditor's Office at 712-623-5127 for help identifying the right department.
- Search Iowa Courts Online for filed court charges, because booking records and court records are separate systems.
Montgomery County Roster Search Fields
There is no county roster form to inspect, so roster fields such as booking number, housing unit, charge code, bond type, or mugshot display should not be assumed. The honest field inventory for the official county roster is the absence of a public search form.
| Field Label | Type | Required | Options / Format Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| [no official county roster found] | n/a | n/a | No county search form, current-inmates page, booking feed, or public inmate-profile portal was located on the official county or sheriff website. |
The county contact form is the documented online fallback when a requester needs to reach a department. The research inspection found required fields for name, email, department, and message, and the department selector includes Sheriff.
| Field Label | Type | Required | Options / Format Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Department | dropdown | yes | Select "Sheriff" for jail custody, booking-record, booking-photo, or arrest-report questions. |
| Your name | text | yes | Required on the county contact form. |
| Your email address | email/text | yes | Required, with invalid-format validation shown on the form. |
| Message | textarea | yes | Use the message to identify the record sought and include enough detail to route the request. |
The county contact form is shown in the captured source at Montgomery County's online contact form.
What a Montgomery County Inmate Record Can Show
Because no official public county inmate profile was located, the record fields below are request targets rather than confirmed online roster fields. Ask the sheriff which details are maintained, which are releasable, and whether any part of the record belongs to another agency, court, or prosecutor.
| Record Detail to Request | Why It Matters |
|---|---|
| Name of arrested person | Identifies the person booked and helps distinguish similar names. |
| Booking date and time | Shows when local jail intake occurred and helps connect the booking to court deadlines. |
| Arresting agency | Clarifies whether the arrest began with the Sheriff's Office, Red Oak Police, Iowa State Patrol, or another agency. |
| Booking or arrest charges | Shows the intake labels, which may differ from charges later filed by the County Attorney. |
| Bond amount or type | May show release conditions if a court has set them and the information is releasable. |
| Custody, release, or transfer status | Indicates whether the person remains in the county jail, was released, or moved to another system. |
| Booking photo | May be maintained by the jail, but release depends on Iowa public-records law and custodian review. |
| Incident or arrest report number | Helps locate the underlying law-enforcement report when the jail booking is not enough. |
Booking and Intake at the Law Enforcement Center
A typical Montgomery County arrest may begin with the Sheriff's Office, Red Oak Police, Iowa State Patrol, or another law-enforcement agency. The person may be transported to the Law Enforcement Center / county jail for local processing. The county does not publish a jail-specific booking manual, so the supported description is a general custody path grounded in the sheriff's jail-administration role and Iowa procedure.
Intake commonly involves identity confirmation, property inventory, search, fingerprints, booking photo, charge entry, warrant or hold checks, medical and mental-health screening, classification, and temporary housing assignment. Montgomery County does not provide an online roster refresh schedule, so do not expect a new booking to appear on a county web page. For a very recent arrest, the sheriff phone and public-records channel are the reliable local routes.
Iowa Code 804.21 requires an arrested person to be taken before a magistrate without unnecessary delay, and within 24 hours after arrest if a magistrate is available. That first court step may address probable cause, counsel, bond, release conditions, and next court dates. The jail booking record starts the custody trail, while Iowa Courts Online tracks the case once charges are filed or docketed.
County Jail, Iowa DOC, Federal, ICE, and VINELink
A person arrested in Montgomery County may not stay in one system. Local jail custody is different from state prison, federal custody, immigration detention, and victim notification. Use the source that matches the custody stage.
| Custody or Information Need | Where to Look | Important Limit |
|---|---|---|
| Current county jail custody | Montgomery County Sheriff's Office, 712-623-5107 | No official online Montgomery County jail roster was located. |
| Sentenced state prisoner or DOC supervision | Iowa DOC Offender Search | Not a county jail roster and updated weekly, according to DOC notices. |
| Victim notification or custody-status alerts | VINELink Iowa person search | Notification channel, not a complete booking record or court docket. |
| Federal sentenced custody | Federal BOP Inmate Locator | BOP results do not replace local jail or USMS pretrial information. |
| Immigration detention | ICE Online Detainee Locator System | Used for immigration custody, not ordinary Montgomery County jail custody. |
The Iowa DOC search page is shown in the captured source at Iowa DOC Offender Search.
Iowa DOC Search Fields for Sentenced Prisoners
The Iowa Department of Corrections states that offender records are public under Iowa Code 904.601(1), that information is updated weekly, and that it may change quickly. Search Montgomery as the County of Commitment only when the question is about a person sentenced or supervised through DOC from a Montgomery County case.
| Field Label | Type | Required | Options / Format Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| First, Middle, Last Name | text | optional/unspecified | Name search fields; use fewer filters if spelling is uncertain. |
| Offender Number | text | optional/unspecified | Most precise when the DOC number is known. |
| Sex | dropdown | optional/unspecified | Blank, Male, or Female. |
| Location | dropdown | optional/unspecified | Includes Iowa prisons and correctional districts. Do not choose Clarinda only because it is near Montgomery County. |
| Offense | text | optional/unspecified | Free-text offense search; wording may differ from court or booking labels. |
| County of Commitment | dropdown | optional/unspecified | Montgomery appears as a county option for DOC commitment searches. |
| Name Search | dropdown | optional/unspecified | Starts With, Matches, or Sounds Like. |
Montgomery County Jail Facility
Research supports one detention facility physically located in Montgomery County for this project. No separate work-release annex, state prison, BOP institution, ICE detention facility, or municipal jail page was verified in the official-source sweep.
Montgomery County Law Enforcement Center / Montgomery County Jail
106 W Coolbaugh St
Red Oak, IA 51566
712-623-5107
Published sheriff office hours: Monday-Friday, 7:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Jail visitation, booking desk, and lobby hours were not separately published.
Visitation, Mail, Phone, and Commissary: Call First
Montgomery County does not publish official local jail visitation, mail, commissary, phone, video visitation, or money-deposit rules on the county pages found. The sheriff's published office hours should not be treated as visitation hours. Confirm every visit, mailing, property drop-off, medication delivery, money deposit, and attorney visit with the jail before traveling or sending anything.
| Topic | Montgomery County Official Published Detail |
|---|---|
| In-person visitation schedule | Not located on the official county/sheriff website. |
| Visitor approval, ID, dress code, child rules | Not located. Call before arrival. |
| Attorney visits | No separate local procedure found. Attorneys should call the sheriff/jail and identify the client and case. |
| Video visitation | No county vendor or schedule confirmed. |
| Inmate mail format | Not located. Do not assume the sheriff office address is the correct inmate-mail format. |
| Money deposit vendor or lobby kiosk | Not located. No county jail vendor should be named without a current official source. |
| Phone provider or rates | Not located for the county jail. Iowa DOC prison phone rates do not apply to Montgomery County Jail. |
Call before sending anything. Do not mail cash, checks, books, medication, clothing, documents, or packages unless Montgomery County jail staff confirm the current rule.
Public Records and Limits on Jail Information
Iowa Code chapter 22 supplies the open-records framework for county records, while confidentiality exemptions can still apply. Iowa Code 356.6 requires the sheriff to keep an accurate jail calendar with prisoner and confinement details. Iowa Administrative Code r. 201-50.22 identifies jail recordkeeping categories, including the jail calendar, visitor registration, medical/intake records, property records, and incident notifications. Those laws support the existence of jail records, but they do not require Montgomery County to publish a live online roster.
For court charges after booking, use Iowa Courts Online and the Montgomery County Clerk of Court path instead of the jail. For state prison records, the Iowa DOC locator is governed by DOC public-record provisions such as Iowa Code 904.601 and 904.602. For expungement or sealed-record questions, Iowa Code chapter 901C and court orders matter more than the jail's intake record.