Locate Grant County Inmate Records

Grant County Jail Roster Overview

No official Grant County, Kansas jail roster or inmate search portal was confirmed on the Grant County pages reviewed. A search result surfaced a 365Labs "Grant County Sheriffs Office Community Portal," but direct endpoint inspection returned Washington-style RCW statutes and Washington-agency abbreviations. That source is excluded as not a Grant County, Kansas roster. The official local path is the Grant County Sheriff's Office and jail at 210 E. Central Avenue, Ulysses, KS 67880, phone 620.356.3500, fax 620.356.1038, emergency 911.

James Biddle is the current elected sheriff. The county staff page says he has approximately 30 years in law enforcement, served in roles including patrol deputy, K-9 handler, investigator, and undersheriff, was first elected sheriff in 2020, and was sworn in January 2021. The sheriff supervises the undersheriff, administrative assistant, commissioned deputies, jail deputies, emergency dispatchers, reserve deputies, and a jail medications assistant. The sheriff's office operates the Grant County Jail and handles service of court papers, District Court process, offender registry responsibilities, fingerprinting, and VIN inspections.

The KDOC home source helps with state custody because that is the main online fallback when the person is no longer in the local jail.

KDOC records can help with state custody, but they do not confirm current Grant County jail booking status.

Local Sheriff and Jail Chain

The Grant County Law Enforcement Center is the practical local contact for jail questions, recent booking questions, law-enforcement records, and visitation logistics. The Ulysses Police Department also operates from the same law-enforcement center, according to city sources, so callers should be clear whether they need city police information, sheriff jail information, or a court case record. District Court records, including filed charges and bond orders, are handled by the Clerk of the District Court at 108 S. Glenn, Second Level, Ulysses, KS 67880, phone (620) 356-1526.

How to Check Grant County Custody

Because no local online jail roster was confirmed, the custody search is handled by phone, in-person inquiry, records request, and court-record cross-checking. Use as much identifying information as possible. Jail staff may not disclose medical, classification, safety, juvenile, or protected information, and the absence of a public online entry does not prove the person was not arrested.

1. Call the Grant County Sheriff's Office at 620.356.3500 and ask whether the jail can confirm current custody or route the request.
2. Provide the person's full name, date of birth if known, booking date or arrest date if known, and any case or warrant number.
3. Ask whether bond, court date, visitation eligibility, or release status is public and current.
4. Check Kansas CaseSearch or call the Clerk of the District Court when the question is the filed criminal charge, court date, or bond order.
5. Use KDOC KASPER only if the person may be in state prison, parole, post-release supervision, compact supervision, or another KDOC-associated status.

Local Inmate Search Fields

There is no confirmed Grant County online roster form to inventory, so the useful fields are the details an official local office can use to identify the person. Exact names matter, but date of birth and case numbers are often what prevent same-name confusion. A court case number can also help the clerk identify charges that are related to the booking.

Sample Inmate Profile Fields

If Grant County jail staff can confirm public booking information, the available fields may be narrower than a full online roster from a larger county. The sample profile inventory below describes common public fields to ask about, not a promise that every field will be released. Some information may be unavailable because of release, transfer, juvenile status, safety, medical privacy, sealed court orders, or active investigation limits.

Jail Capacity and Local Operations

The county staff page provides unusually specific local jail information. The jail was built in the 1970s and can hold up to 40 prisoners. Four full-time jail deputies work two 12-hour shifts. Jail deputies are responsible for prisoner safety, jail maintenance, and efficiency. The jailer prepares breakfast and transports noon and evening meals from the local care home. The jail deputy names listed in the research are Micky Baker, William Strickland, Justin Spencer, and Beau Talmadge, with additional positions coming soon or taking applications.

Those facts help explain why a small-county jail may not maintain the kind of continuously updated public roster common in larger jurisdictions. Local records may be maintained well, but they may be confirmed through staff contact rather than a public search screen. For family members, the best call is usually a direct jail call asking what can be disclosed, how visits are scheduled, and whether the person has been transferred, released, or taken to court.

KDOC KASPER for State Custody

KASPER is the Kansas Adult Supervised Population Electronic Repository. KDOC says KASPER reflects persons and cases associated with programs funded through or operated by KDOC. It is not a complete criminal history and should not replace a KBI criminal-history search. KDOC also says KASPER data is updated each working day, but status can change after update. Use KASPER when a person may be in state prison, parole, post-release supervision, compact supervision, absconder status, or another KDOC-supervised population category.

The KDOC locating-resident source explains the state-level information available after the local jail stage.

That state lookup can show prison or supervision details, but it does not replace a call to the Grant County jail for local custody.

KBI Registry Limits

The KBI Registered Offender Registry is not a jail roster. KBI publishes sex, violent, and drug offender information under the Kansas Offender Registration Act. The registry is updated every 15 minutes, but KBI warns that registered-offender information may be incomplete or inaccurate because it depends partly on offender-provided information. Some offender information is not public, including some offenses before April 14, 1994. KBI's contact address is 1620 SW Tyler St., Topeka, KS 66612, phone (785) 296-8200. Use the registry for registered-offender context only, not for current Grant County custody, warrants, or filed court charges.

Video Visitation Rules

Grant County's official FAQ gives the clearest local jail visitation rule: jail visits are now digital, and the Grant County Jail does not offer live in-person visits. Visits can be completed from home or at the kiosk located in the Grant County Law Enforcement Center lobby. The FAQ also says a visitor must be 18 years old or accompanied by a parent or guardian. No official page reviewed provided the video-visitation vendor, remote-visit price, kiosk hours, visit length, visitor dress code, mail scanning rules, commissary vendor, phone vendor, tablet program, attorney-visit schedule, or money-deposit vendor.

Mail, Calls, Commissary, and Funds

Official pages reviewed did not identify a mail-format rule, commissary vendor, phone-account vendor, deposit portal, tablet program, remote-video price, or attorney-visit procedure. Call 620.356.3500 before sending mail, creating a vendor account, putting money on books, or arriving for a lobby kiosk visit. Ask whether an account is required, whether a photo ID is required, whether visits must be approved in advance, whether attorney visits are handled separately, and whether any deposit or call vendor is currently authorized.

KDOC contact information helps when state-custody questions move beyond the local jail after sentencing or transfer.

KDOC contacts are useful after transfer to state custody, while Grant County jail staff remain the source for local visitation and booking status.