Montgomery County Law Enforcement Center / Montgomery County Jail Inmate Lookup

Montgomery County Law Enforcement Center / Montgomery County Jail Overview

The Montgomery County Law Enforcement Center / Montgomery County Jail is operated by the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office. The official county sheriff page places the Sheriff's Office at 106 W Coolbaugh St, Red Oak, IA 51566, and states that administration of the county jail is one of the sheriff's duties. The jail is the primary local detention facility for people arrested in Montgomery County, including pretrial detainees, short-sentence local custody, and short-term arrestees awaiting court action, release, or transfer.

Montgomery County did not publish a separate jail commander name, detention administrator, jail email address, inmate accounting office, booking desk number, or independent jail website in the research reviewed. The sheriff's main phone, 712-623-5107, is therefore the public starting point for custody questions, booking-record questions, and jail operating information. Crime Stoppers is listed separately at 888-434-2712 for tips, not as a custody-status line.

The facility sits in Red Oak, the county seat, near the courthouse-square public-safety area. The county history material explains that Red Oak became county seat in 1865, and the modern Law Enforcement Center continues the local government and law-enforcement presence around Coolbaugh Street. That local setting does not change the access rules: jail custody records are separate from court records and separate from Iowa DOC prison records.

Montgomery County Law Enforcement Center Capacity and Population

Montgomery County's current website does not publish a live jail population dashboard or a current bed count for the Law Enforcement Center. The reliable dated figures in the research come from Vera Institute's Incarceration Trends county dataset. Vera reported Montgomery County jail rated capacity as 34 in 2019 and total jail population as 16 in 2019. Those are historical statistical figures, not today's live headcount.

Because Montgomery County is small, a change of a few people can look large in rate tables. The 2019 population of 16 against Vera's rated capacity figure of 34 suggests the historical dataset count was below rated capacity that year, but it does not prove current available beds, current crowding conditions, or current daily population.

How to Look Up an Inmate at Montgomery County Law Enforcement Center

No official Montgomery County online jail roster, current-inmates page, recent-booking feed, inmate profile search, or mugshot gallery was located on the county or sheriff website. Current custody questions should start with the Sheriff's Office at 712-623-5107. If staff cannot release details by phone, use the county public-information process and direct the request to the department that holds the record, normally the Sheriff's Office for jail and booking records.

1. Call 712-623-5107 and ask whether the person is currently held at Montgomery County Jail.
2. Have the person's full legal name, approximate booking or arrest date, date of birth if known, and arresting agency if known.
3. If a phone answer is unavailable or limited, submit a county contact request to the Sheriff department or ask the Auditor's Office which department is the custodian.
4. For filed charges, use court records after a jail arrest through Iowa Courts Online rather than treating the jail as the court record source.

VINELink Iowa can be useful for custody-status notifications where agency data is available, but it should not be treated as a substitute for a county roster. Iowa DOC Offender Search applies to sentenced state prisoners or DOC-supervised people. BOP and ICE locators apply to federal and immigration custody, not ordinary Montgomery County jail custody.

Montgomery County Law Enforcement Center Address and Contact

The sheriff contact block is the confirmed facility contact path. The county staff directory also confirms the Sheriff's Office and Law Enforcement Center contact point, which helps distinguish this facility from court, prosecutor, city police, and state correctional systems.

The county staff directory is one of the official sources confirming the sheriff contact route.

The Montgomery County staff directory lists county officials and contact details, including sheriff-related contact information.

Do not assume the posted administrative office hours are jail visitation hours, booking desk hours, or after-hours custody-answering hours. Call before traveling to confirm lobby access, required identification, and whether the request must be made another way.

Visiting Someone at Montgomery County Law Enforcement Center

Montgomery County did not publish an official jail visitation schedule, visit length, visitor approval process, dress code, child-visitor rule, attorney-visit procedure, video visitation vendor, holiday rule, or lockdown rule in the county website review. The safest local guidance is to call 712-623-5107 before going to the Law Enforcement Center. Confirm whether the person is eligible for visits, whether an appointment is required, what identification is accepted, and whether visits are delayed by intake, court transport, medical screening, discipline, or transfer.

Mail, Phone, and Money at Montgomery County Law Enforcement Center

The county did not publish inmate mail rules, inmate mailing format, book-in number requirements, prohibited mail rules, mail scanning policy, commissary limits, money-deposit vendor, lobby kiosk information, online deposit link, inmate phone provider, tablet rule, or phone pricing for Montgomery County Jail. Do not send cash, checks, packages, medication, clothing, books, or paperwork unless jail staff first confirms that the item is accepted and explains the required format.

Iowa DOC prison mail, money, phone, and visiting rules are separate. DOC uses statewide prison processes such as centralized visiting applications, Ameelio scheduling, Pigeonly non-legal mail scanning, CorrLinks O-mail, approved calling lists, and centralized fiduciary accounting. Those DOC processes should not be applied to a person still held in Montgomery County Jail unless the person has been transferred to state prison custody.

Booking and Intake at Montgomery County Law Enforcement Center

Booking is the jail-side intake step after an arrest. A person may be arrested by the sheriff, Red Oak Police, another local officer, or a state officer and still be handled through the county jail for local custody. The county 911 communications center serves all of Montgomery County and Red Oak Police, and the local research covers Red Oak, Stanton, Villisca, Elliott, Grant, Coburg, and rural Montgomery County. No separate municipal jail or city holding-cell policy was verified for those communities in the official-source sweep.

After booking, court timing becomes important. Iowa Code 804.21 addresses the first-appearance pathway after arrest, and Iowa Code 811.2 addresses release conditions and bond. The jail can confirm custody status when releasable, while Iowa Courts Online tracks filed cases, charge status, hearings, bond orders, and dispositions after the case enters the court system.

Requesting Jail Records from the Sheriff

Montgomery County's public-information instructions tell requesters to contact the department that has the information. For booking records, custody records, arrest reports, jail records, and booking-photo questions, the likely local starting department is the Sheriff's Office. If the custodian is unclear, the county directs requesters to the Auditor's Office, and the county contact form includes a department dropdown with Sheriff as an option.

The county contact form is one official path for routing a written request when a phone call is not enough.

The Montgomery County contact form includes required name, email, department, and message fields.

A practical request can identify the full legal name, approximate arrest or booking date, arresting agency if known, and the specific records requested. Ask for releasable booking date, arresting agency, booking charges, bond or release information, release or transfer status, and booking photograph if maintained and releasable. If a portion is withheld or redacted, ask for the legal basis under Iowa Code chapter 22.

About Montgomery County Law Enforcement Center

The Law Enforcement Center is the county-level jail and sheriff facility for Montgomery County. The research did not find a separate work-release annex, regional jail, juvenile detention center, state prison, federal prison, or ICE detention facility physically located in Montgomery County. Clarinda Correctional Facility is a regional state-prison reference in southwest Iowa, but it is in Page County and is not a Montgomery County facility page.

Federal and immigration custody require different systems. A federal defendant from the area may be handled through the U.S. Marshals Southern District of Iowa and held outside the county. Immigration detainees should be searched through ICE ODLS. Sentenced Iowa prison cases should be searched through Iowa DOC Offender Search. VINELink Iowa can support custody-status notifications where data is available.