Custody records in Oklahoma are tracked through VINE, a statewide service. Here is how to use it:

1. Pull up the official jail custody lookup on your phone or a computer.
2. Type your loved one's first and last name. If a birth date box shows up, fill it in to sort through common names.
3. Check each result for a facility name and a status, like in custody or released.
4. Note any ID number listed. Staff at the jail can pull the file faster with it.
5. Nothing found? Try a nickname, the maiden name, a middle name or another spelling.

Because the system is statewide, a match may show your loved one at some other Oklahoma facility. For this jail, phone 580-625-4549 to be sure.

When a search comes back empty, it is usually for one of these reasons:

• Booking isn't finished. Fresh arrests can take a while to reach the records.
• Released. A bond got posted, or a judge let your loved one go.
• Transferred. Another county jail, a state prison or federal custody may now have them. State prison assigns its own new number.
• A typo. Even one letter off can hide a record.
• Under 18. Minors are taken to juvenile detention instead of this jail.

Skip the guessing and call the Sheriff's Office at 580-625-4549. Office hours are posted as 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Adult prisoners from the county normally stay in Beaver. An arrest near the edge of the county can still land your loved one in a neighbor's jail:

• Texas County Jail, 1102 South Ellison Street, Guymon, OK 73942, 580-338-4000
• Harper County Jail, 311 SE 1st Street, Buffalo, OK 73834, 580-735-2213
• Ellis County Jail, 212 East Barnes, Arnett, OK 73832, 580-885-7377

Kansas lies along the north edge of the county and Texas along the south. If the stop happened over either state line, a local jail in that state has your loved one, and the officer's agency can say which. Federal prisoners being shuttled between places sometimes land at the Federal Transfer Center, 7410 S. MacArthur Boulevard, Oklahoma City, OK 73169, 405-682-4075.

VINE tracks custody, meaning whether someone is held and where. For anything beyond that, go to the Sheriff's Office.

• What the public can get. Oklahoma's Open Records Act opens certain police records, if an agency keeps them: a description of the arrested person with name, the reason for the arrest and jail booking entries (51 O.S. § 24A.8). Booking photos are not named in that law.
• Requesting a photo. Members of the press or the public may call the Sheriff's Office at 580-625-4549 to ask.
• ICE photos. These go through the ICE records request page.
• Federal photos. Federal agencies hold these back, though the U.S. Marshals Service will sometimes publish a wanted fugitive's picture.

Yes, if you sign up. Oklahoma VINE, a service of the Attorney General's office, will send a notice. You don't have to be a crime victim to register.

• Pick email, a text, a phone call or the VINE app.
• Notices go out for a transfer, release, escape, recapture or death. Parole changes are left out.
• Entering state prison gives your loved one a new number, which may mean registering a second time.
• During a stay at a state mental health facility, notices stop, then pick back up once the person returns to prison.

Phone registration is at 877-654-8463.

Bail is a right for most people under Oklahoma's Constitution. A judge may refuse it only on a short list of serious charges, and only with strong proof and a finding that no conditions would keep others safe (Okla. Const. art. II § 8). People usually get out by:

• Posting the whole bond in cash
• Hiring a licensed bondsman for a fee
• Putting up land or a home
• Signing a promise to come back, known as own recognizance

A few things cause delays. After a repeat DUI arrest, nobody leaves until a judge names the bond (HB 1222). Holds from another county, a probation officer or ICE can also block release after paying. The full rundown is in our bail and bond guide, and the jail can quote the amount at 580-625-4549.

You have three ways to find out:

1. Call the jail. Dial 580-625-4549. Oklahoma treats the cause of an arrest and jail booking entries as public records (51 O.S. § 24A.8).
2. Check the court records. The county's court page links to ODCR. When the case is filed, try a name search there.
3. Ask the Court Clerk. At 580-625-3191, staff can read you the case number and the filed charges.

Booking charges are not always the final ones. The District Attorney chooses what to file, from the office at 111 W. 2nd Street, Beaver, OK 73932, 580-625-3388.

Yes, if a judge finds they can't pay. Your loved one should tell a jailer they need the form asking the court for a lawyer. Once the judge approves it, the Oklahoma Indigent Defense System (OIDS) takes the case.

• Nearest OIDS office: 1001 N Main St, Guymon, OK 73942, 580-290-6875. It covers this county plus Cimarron, Harper and Texas.
• Cost: a $40 application fee for the Court Fund, which the judge may let them pay later, when the case closes.
• Deciding factors: income, debts and what the person owns (22 O.S. § 1355A).

Relatives can get the same form from the Court Clerk, 580-625-3191. A call to OIDS itself won't assign anyone, because appointment is the judge's job.

Phone the jail at 580-625-4549 before making the trip. Find out the visiting days and hours, whether you must schedule ahead and whether visitors need approval in advance. Also ask if video visits are possible, either from your home or at the jail lobby.

Oklahoma's jail standards set two basic rules (OAC 310:670-5-9):

• Visitor counts and visit length can be capped only for security reasons.
• Visitors under 18 need their parent or legal guardian with them.

Carry a government photo ID, and ask staff what you may bring inside. For general tips, read our jail visitation guide.

An inmate account usually covers commissary items and phone time. Before you send a dollar, ring 580-625-4549 and find out:

• Which deposit methods the jail uses, for example a lobby payment, a website or a mailed money order
• The payee for a money order, and which number belongs on it
• Any deposit fees or caps

Under a 2026 state law, sheriffs may put leftover commissary funds toward running the jail and caring for inmates (SB 2118). Cash in the mail is never safe. More help is on our pages about inmate deposits and commissary orders.

Every newly booked inmate in Oklahoma gets at least two local or collect phone calls (OAC 310:670-5-1). Your phone may ring within hours, and that call may be collect.

Later calls normally go through a prepaid phone account. Ask the jail at 580-625-4549 how to open one, what calls cost, and whether the jail has tablets, messaging or email. Leave talk about the charges for the defense attorney.

For how these systems tend to work, see jail phone accounts and inmate messages.

For now, mail goes to the Sheriff's Office box. Put your loved one's full name at the top of the address, then:

Sheriff's Office, P.O. Box 687, Beaver, OK 73932

• Oklahoma sets no cap on the amount of mail sent or received, though staff may search it for banned items (OAC 310:670-5-9).
• Your loved one must be present when staff open letters from a judge's office or an attorney. Their letters to a lawyer go out sealed.
• Never tuck cash into a letter.

Read our inmate mail guide. Call 580-625-4549 to confirm photo and package rules.

Staff write up an inventory of what was taken at booking. On release day they hand everything back against that list, and your loved one signs it (OAC 310:670-5-1).

Need to collect things while your loved one is still inside? Call 580-625-4549 first. Ask if a signed release from your loved one is needed, which ID to bring and what pickup times work. That same call can cover what happens to unspent account money.

Under Oklahoma's jail standards, every inmate is owed (OAC 310:670-5-8):

• A health check at intake
• Instructions on requesting medical help
• A visit with licensed medical staff no later than 48 hours after a written request, sooner when needed

An Oklahoma statute also requires proper treatment of any sickness or injury from the moment of arrest onward (74 O.S. § 192). If your loved one needs regular medication or has a serious health problem, let the jail know at 580-625-4549.

When a care problem goes unsolved, contact the state's jail inspectors: OSDH Detention Program, 123 Robert S. Kerr Ave., Suite 1702, Oklahoma City, OK 73102, 405-426-8170.

Sheriff's deputies handle warrant service in the county, and the office will say if one is active: 580-625-4549. Case files on ODCR list warrants linked to a case. Official wanted lists: the Attorney General's 10 Most Wanted, Corrections' Orange Alert page for escapees, plus the U.S. Marshals' 15 Most Wanted list. To clear one, bring in a lawyer first, then surrender at the issuing court, or phoning that court to ask about bond or a fresh date. Reach the Court Clerk at 111 Second Street, Beaver, OK 73932, 580-625-3191.

Every District Court date passes through the Court Clerk. Call 580-625-3191 from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Or look up the case on ODCR, the records site the county points to.

A Town of Beaver ticket is heard in Municipal Court, which sits roughly monthly. Two sessions remain this year, on November 18 and December 16. The town office number is 580-625-3331.

Our criminal court page explains each type of hearing.

A federal case from this county goes to the Western District of Oklahoma's U.S. District Court, 200 NW 4th Street, Oklahoma City, OK 73102, 405-609-5000.

1. The first decision. A federal judge decides on pretrial release at a detention hearing (18 U.S.C. 3142). If the answer is custody, the U.S. Marshals Service takes charge.
2. Getting a location. Phone the Marshals, 200 Northwest 4th Street, Room 2022, Oklahoma City, OK 73102, 405-231-4206, and ask which jail has your loved one.
3. In transit. Some stop at the Federal Transfer Center, 7410 S. MacArthur Boulevard, Oklahoma City, OK 73169. Visits there happen Saturdays, Sundays and federal holidays, 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
4. Once sentenced. Look up the name on the Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate locator.

When immigration officers want your loved one, the steps tend to run in this order:

1. Form I-247A, the ICE detainer, arrives at the jail.
2. With that in hand, jailers can hold your loved one up to 48 hours after they would otherwise be released (8 CFR 287.7(d)).
3. ICE officers collect them. The ICE Dallas Field Office, 8101 N. Stemmons Frwy, Dallas, TX 75247, 972-367-2200, oversees Oklahoma.
4. One place detainees go is Cimarron Correctional Facility, 3200 S. Kings Hwy., Cushing, OK 74023. Its detainee information line, 918-225-3336, answers from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Have ready the full name, other names used, date and country of birth, and the A-number.
5. Search the ICE Online Detainee Locator.

Oklahoma made illegal presence a state crime in HB 4156 (21 O.S. § 1795), yet that law sits blocked by a federal court during the state's appeal. ICE also runs an Oklahoma City office at 1220 Sovereign Row, Oklahoma City, OK 73108, 405-219-3199.

A prison sentence doesn't mean an instant move. DOC reports the typical gap between sentencing and transfer as 6 to 9 months, spent in the county jail. Then DOC routes them to an assessment and reception center and, later, to a prison suited to their custody score.

• Use the DOC Offender Lookup to find where they are.
• Our Oklahoma prisons listing profiles each facility.
• Mail needs the name plus the ODOC number. DOC covers deposits and prison visits on its own site.

Once your loved one arrives, the case manager there is the contact. The DOC central office is at 4345 North Lincoln Blvd., Oklahoma City, OK 73105, 405-425-2500.

Minors don't stay in the adult jail. Instead, they are taken to a youth detention center that holds a license from the Office of Juvenile Affairs (OJA). The jail itself may keep a minor no more than six hours, only to identify, process or transfer them, and separated from adults completely (OAC 310:670-5-5).

• If the youth is kept, the judge holds a detention hearing by the next day court is open.
• Juvenile paperwork runs through the Court Clerk, 580-625-3191.
• Certain serious crimes can lead to youthful offender charges, or to a move into adult court.

For the youth's location, ask the Sheriff's Office at 580-625-4549 or OJA, 2501 N. Lincoln Blvd., Suite 500, Oklahoma City, OK 73105, 405-530-2800.

The Census Bureau estimated the county's population at 4,882 as of July 1, 2025. Arrests here are made by:

• Sheriff's Office, 111 Second Street, Beaver, OK 73932, 580-625-4549. Deputies patrol the rural parts of the county.
• Beaver Police Department, 316 Douglas Avenue, Beaver, OK 73932, serving a town of 1,213. Dial 911 in an emergency. Other calls go to the town office, 580-625-3331.
• Forgan (435 residents), Gate (58) and Knowles (5): ask the Sheriff's Office who answers calls in those towns.
• Oklahoma Highway Patrol troopers, who make arrests on state highways. The Sheriff's Office can say whether a trooper made the arrest.