Contact Us

Questions about official custody, a release date, a discharge type, a booking photo, or a supervision record must go to the agency that maintains that information. The contacts below separate Stearns County Jail and Sheriff Records from Community Corrections and the Minnesota Department of Corrections. Confirm office hours before traveling because the research sources do not publish a guaranteed jail-records counter schedule.

This is a private reference site, not a government office. It cannot confirm custody, release anyone, post bond, retrieve official booking records, or act for Stearns County or Minnesota DOC.


Official Offices and Records

Use the custodian-specific office below. Provide a full name, approximate booking or release date, and a JCA, booking, offender, or case number if known. Office hours should be confirmed directly before an in-person visit.

Stearns County Sheriff / Jail Records
Responsible authority: Sheriff Steve Soyka
807 Courthouse Square
St. Cloud, MN 56301
Records Division: 320-259-3700
Law-enforcement data requests: 320-259-3738
Sheriff Records
Confirm current office hours.
Stearns Community Corrections
Administration Center
705 Courthouse Square
St. Cloud, MN 56303
Phone: 320-656-6099
Fax: 320-656-6161
Community Corrections
Minnesota Department of Corrections
1450 Energy Park Drive
St. Paul, MN 55108
Main: 651-361-7200
Records Management: 651-361-7330
Fax: 612-473-5006
Email: CO-Records.DOC@state.mn.us

Choose the route that matches the need:

  • For a Stearns jail release or transfer record, use Sheriff Records; the home page explains the full request fields.
  • For local probation or assigned supervision, contact Stearns Community Corrections.
  • For a state prisoner or state supervised-release record, use the Minnesota DOC Locator and Records Management.
  • For recent county releases, remember that Stearns provides a person search, not a complete chronological daily feed.
  • For a county jail custody alert, call Minnesota VINE at 877-664-8463; state-prison notifications use DOC Haven.
  • For federal prison or immigration custody, use the BOP Locator or ICE ODLS and the appropriate federal records process.

Juvenile detention questions use 320-259-3760 and remain subject to Minnesota confidentiality law. A warrant list is not custody proof; Stearns warrant confirmation is 320-259-3955 during business hours, with after-hours location reports at 320-251-4240.