Why We Built This Site
Florida keeps most jail and inmate information open to the public, but the records are scattered. The tricky part is rarely access, it is knowing where to look. The Alachua County Sheriff's Office runs the local jail roster, which covers people held before trial and those serving short county sentences. The Florida Department of Corrections runs a separate search for people sentenced to state prison. Federal inmates and immigration detainees turn up in yet another set of national systems. We gathered the rosters, locators, facility contacts, visitation rules, and records-request steps into one place so a search starts in the right system instead of the wrong one.
What You Will Find Here
The site is organized around the questions people actually ask when someone they know is booked.
- Help with inmate lookups, including jail inmate records, jail roster mugshots, and court records after a jail arrest.
- A page for each detention facility in Alachua County, with its address, phone, and visitation notes.
- Step-by-step help for the county jail roster and the statewide inmate locator.
- Plain instructions for requesting a booking record or photo, and what response time to expect.
What We Cannot Do
We want to be clear about our limits. This is a privately run reference site. It has no tie to any Florida sheriff's office, jail, corrections department, or other government agency. We collect and explain public information, but we do not hold anyone's records and we cannot act on a case.
- We cannot release, hold, or transfer anyone in custody.
- We cannot post bond, schedule a visit, or send money for you.
- We cannot give legal advice.
- We cannot promise that every phone number, fee, or address stays current.
Only the sheriff's office or the corrections department can confirm a current custody status, the charges, or a release. We can point you to the right roster, but the official answer always comes from them.
Search Partners
Some pages include search boxes powered by outside providers that set their own prices and run their own results. When one of those tools leads to a paid signup, the site may earn a referral fee, and that is what keeps it free to use. We do not control how those partners price their services or what their searches return.