Utah inmate search

Local jails across Utah are run by county sheriffs. The county sheriff, or someone the sheriff designates, serves as the county jail official under Utah Code Section 77-20-102. Every sheriff runs the local detention system on their own. With counties keeping separate rosters, you must search the one where the arrest happened.

Salt Lake County's Sheriff's Office Corrections Bureau operates the Oxbow Jail and the Salt Lake County Metro Jail, 2 facilities total. From arrival, booking there averages 6 to 8 hours, and it runs longer when someone is intoxicated or uncooperative. Farther south, the Utah County Sheriff's Office operates the Utah County Jail and keeps a custody search of its own.

Every sheriff controls the way the local roster works and the timing of new arrest postings. Each county system looks different, since Utah lacks a statewide lookup for county jails.

The Utah County Jail roster lets you search by booking number or view everyone currently in custody. People in custody now appear on that list, along with anyone booked there in the past 2 years. A refresh time is shown on the page, but new booking details need 24 hours to show up.

A separate lookup exists for the Salt Lake County Metro Jail, where booking averages 6 to 8 hours. Release dates are not shared by Salt Lake County. If the arrest just happened, phone the booking desk yourself or read about how booking works.

The state prison system is run by the Utah Department of Corrections, which people also call the UDC. Unlike a county sheriff's roster, its online offender lookup covers a different set of people. People stay in county jails just after an arrest or while they await a court date. People serving a state prison sentence, or on state probation or parole, are tracked in the UDC database.

Enter a UDC number or a name to search the UDC locator. You'll see in the results whether the person is in state custody now or on probation or parole. A person arrested last night won't show up here unless UDC supervision was already in place.

Offered by the Utah Department of Corrections, Utah VINE is a free automated service. Victims and community members get custody alerts and offender information from it 24 hours a day. At vinelink.com, you can check custody status or sign up for automatic notifications.

You can also call the toll-free hotline at 1-877-884-8463, which is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Live operators are available to help you in English and Spanish. For extra help through UDC Victim Notification Services, you can reach the UDC Victim Services Coordinator at 801-545-5658.

Bail is a right in Utah. Monetary bail remains available, and judges rely on the Utah Public Safety Assessment risk tool. Release options include the following under Utah Code 77-20, 31A-35-102, and Utah Administrative Rule R590-196:

• Own recognizance, meaning the person promises to come back to court with no money paid.
• Unless the person misses court, an unsecured bond requires no payment.
• Paying monetary bail, or release based on the Uniform Fine/Bail Forfeiture Schedule.
• A no bail hold, pretrial status orders, or temporary pretrial status orders.

You can hire a surety or pay the full amount yourself when bail is monetary. In Utah, the law defines a surety as a bail bond agency or surety insurer. The agency posts a bail bond as a financial guarantee for release, and you pay the bail agent a fee called the premium. An arrest over a new crime before trial does not forfeit the person's commercial money bail bond.