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Grant County Jail Roster Overview

The Grant County Sheriff's Office operates the county jail and publishes an online inmate list through a 365Labs Community Portal. The roster is the official online path for checking who is held in the county jail. According to the Sheriff's Office, the list returned online with a browse view and a search bar, so users can scroll the roster or look up a name. The portal is free and public, and it is the place to start before calling.

The county roster does not cover every form of custody. People sentenced to state prison move into the Oklahoma Department of Corrections system, not the county jail list. Federal detainees and people held in other counties will not appear either. The roster reflects bookings into the Grant County facility, so a name that is missing may mean the person was released, transferred to state custody, or held somewhere else.

The Sheriff is the county's chief law-enforcement officer, and the office's published duties spell out why it holds custody records. Those duties include preserving the peace, protecting life and property, apprehending people charged with crimes, operating the county jail, serving warrants and District Court process papers, and assisting the state in housing state prisoners. The jail roster grows out of that jail-operation role, which is why the Sheriff's Office, not the courts, is the authority on who is currently in the county facility.

Note: roster data can lag behind a fresh booking or a release, so a name that is not showing yet may still be confirmed by a phone call to the Sheriff's Office.

How to Use the Grant County Roster

The roster lives on the Sheriff's Office Community Portal and works like a simple online list. The steps below walk through a basic name check. Because the portal loads its data through scripts, exact button labels can vary, so the order matters more than the wording on screen.

1. Open the Grant County Sheriff's Office inmate list on the 365Labs Community Portal.
2. Browse the full roster, or use the search bar to enter a name.
3. Review the listed results for a match, keeping spelling variations in mind.
4. If a profile view is offered, open it for any further detail the portal shows.
5. If the name does not appear or a detail is unclear, call the Sheriff's Office at 580-395-2356 to confirm current custody status.

A blank result is not proof of anything on its own. The roster updates on its own schedule, and a recent booking or release may not be reflected yet.

Grant County Jail Roster Search Fields

The portal exposes a basic name search rather than a long form of filters. Inspection of the public page was limited because the portal builds its content with scripts, so the fields below reflect what the Sheriff's Office and the portal describe rather than a fully confirmed field list. Treat them as a guide and confirm anything important by phone.

If the search does not return an expected name, try a partial spelling or fewer characters, then verify with the Sheriff's Office. Names are sometimes entered with middle names, suffixes, or alternate spellings.

Fields Shown on Oklahoma Jail Rosters

Many Oklahoma county jail rosters display a similar set of details for each person in custody. The table below lists fields commonly shown on Oklahoma county jail rosters as a general reference. Grant County's specific portal fields were not publicly confirmed during research, so this is not a confirmed list of Grant County profile fields. Verify what the county roster actually shows by calling the Sheriff at 580-395-2356.

Because these are general fields, a Grant County listing may show fewer or different items. The Sheriff's Office is the authority on what the county roster actually publishes for a given person.

Grant County Sheriff's Office and Jail

The Sheriff's Office and the county jail share a building at 219 N. First St. in Medford, directly east of the Grant County Courthouse on First Street. The building dates to 1937 and houses the sheriff, deputies, a dispatch center, and a 39-bed jail. Sheriff Tim Irvin leads the office, and its published duties include operating the jail, serving warrants and District Court process papers, and apprehending people charged with crimes.

The administrative hours apply to office business. Law-enforcement and jail operations run around the clock, so an emergency or a booking does not wait for office hours. For custody, booking, bond, or roster questions, the main office number is the line to call.

Booking Process in Grant County

Booking is the intake process that follows an arrest. Arresting officers bring the person to the jail, and staff complete identification, a search, and the booking paperwork while storing personal property. The general flow is consistent across Oklahoma jails, though each agency runs its own timing and procedures.

Once a person is booked, charges and probable-cause materials may go to the District Attorney and the court. A judge can set bond, and the person may post bond or remain in custody. If charges are filed, a first appearance and later settings show up in the District Court case. The booking charges on the jail roster are not the final word; prosecutors decide the formal charges, which is a separate record from the jail list. The arrest-to-charge pathway is covered on the Grant County arrest records and charges page.

Grant County Bond and Court Dates

Bond and court dates are court records, not jail records, so the District Court docket is where they live. After a booking leads to filed charges, the case carries the bond amount, hearing settings, and the assigned judge. The two free systems for those dockets are OSCN and ODCR.

Search the District Court case on OSCN Docket Search, setting the court to Grant County and entering a name or case number. The same case can be checked on ODCR, the system the Court Clerk links for Oklahoma courts. A docket may also show a bench warrant if a person misses a setting, which is explained on the Grant County warrant records page.

Note: the jail roster and the court docket are different files, so confirm bond and hearing details in the court case rather than from the roster alone.

County Jail vs State Prison

The county jail and the state prison system hold different groups of people, and they have separate lookups. The county jail holds people who are newly booked, awaiting court, or serving short terms. People sentenced to longer terms move into the custody of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections, which runs its own statewide offender system.

For sentenced state inmates, the Oklahoma DOC offender lookup is the right tool. The state system warns that its data is abbreviated and not an exact statement of an offense, sentence, or time to be served, and it directs people to contact the department for full documentation.

The Oklahoma DOC offender lookup is the path to use once a person leaves the Grant County jail for state custody. A quick comparison shows which system fits each situation.

VINELink Custody Notifications

Sometimes the need is not a one-time search but an alert when a status changes. The Grant County Sheriff page links VINELink Oklahoma, a custody and notification service. VINELink lets a person register to receive updates about an offender's custody status rather than checking a roster over and over.

The service is useful for victims and others who want to know about a release or a transfer. Register through VINELink Oklahoma and follow the prompts to set up notifications. As with the roster, confirm anything urgent directly with the Sheriff's Office, since automated systems can lag real events.

Visitation, Mail, and Money

Grant County does not publish a visitation schedule, mail policy, or inmate money instructions on the county website in the sources reviewed. There is no posted commissary vendor, phone provider, or video-visit vendor to point to. Rather than guess at rules that change from jail to jail, the honest answer is to confirm them by phone before traveling, mailing anything, or sending money.

Call the Sheriff's Office at 580-395-2356 to ask about current visitation days and hours, what form of mail the jail accepts and where to send it, how to add money to an inmate account, and how phone or video contact works. Mail and deposit procedures differ between facilities, and some jails use vendor addresses rather than the street address, so a quick call avoids a wasted trip or a returned item. Attorneys should contact the jail directly to arrange professional visits.

Note: because the county does not post these rules online, the Sheriff's Office phone line is the access channel, and any schedule found elsewhere should be verified with the jail before you rely on it.

Grant County Booking Records Requests

Some custody records are not on the public roster and call for a formal request. Oklahoma's Open Records Act treats public-body records as open for inspection and copying unless a statute makes them confidential. For county and sheriff records, the county provides an open-records request form and fee schedule, and sheriff records that are not posted online can be asked about through the office directly.

Start a written request through the Grant County open-records request process, which links the form and the charges. The county's fee schedule took effect on August 14, 2020. Standard black-and-white copies run $0.25 per page and certification is $1 per page, with staff time for locating and reproducing records billed at $20 per hour, or $5 per 15 minutes. When the estimated cost tops $100, the county asks for a deposit of about ten percent before copying begins, and other digital media are charged at cost.

The written request asks for the requestor's name, contact details, the records sought, and whether the request is for a commercial purpose. Some law-enforcement records may be exempt or redacted, so not every booking detail is releasable. For questions about a specific person in custody, the Sheriff's Office at 580-395-2356 or admin@grantcountysheriff.org remains the fastest contact.