Kiowa County Jail Inmate Bail & Bonds

A judge does. Each of Oklahoma's 77 counties gets at least one associate district judge (Okla. Const. art. VII § 8(d)), and District Court judges rule on bail for cases filed here. They hear cases at the county courthouse, 316 S. Main, Hobart, OK 73651. For the court's schedule, ring the Court Clerk at 580-726-5125.

The wait for that first hearing varies. A Friday night booking, or one the day before a holiday, can mean a longer stay. The clerk can tell you which day the next bond docket or arraignment falls on.

• A second DUI arrest, or any after it, means no release off a set figure. A judge sets that bail and explains it on paper (HB 1222, effective November 1, 2025).
• If the case belongs to another county while the person sits in the Hobart jail, a 2024 law lets the arraignment happen on a video screen.

Oklahoma judges have a handful of tools to send a person home while the case runs:

• Personal recognizance. The person's written promise to return takes the place of money (22 O.S. § 1108.1).
• Cash. A relative or friend may put down every dollar of the bail with an official allowed to take it, and the jail lets the person out (59 O.S. § 1323).
• Surety. A state-licensed bondsman backs the full bail. The family pays the company a fee that it keeps.
• Property. A home, a farm or a town lot is put up in place of cash. Whoever files this kind of bond covers its filing fees (59 O.S. § 1331(A)).
• Release rules. A judge may order things like no contact with a named person. The Pretrial Release Act also deals with ankle monitors and pretrial programs (22 O.S. §§ 1105.2, 1105.3).

To learn which choice the judge made in your case, and what forms it needs, ask the Court Clerk at 580-726-5125.

There is no single price. The charge, past convictions and the judge's view of risk all move the number up or down. Ask the jail at 580-726-2381 or the Court Clerk at 580-726-5125 for the figure on a booked charge. Statewide fee and bond schedules can be read on OSCN, Oklahoma's court network.

A few charges come with their own bail rules:

• DUI, second time or more: bail is set by a judge with written findings, never off a list.
• Felony DUI, third time or more: SB 981 (November 1, 2025) added this charge to those that can be held without bail.
• Violent charge on top of a violent charge: if the person was already out on bond for one, HB 3782 (2024) starts the judge from keeping them locked up. The lawyer must then argue for release.
• Capital cases, violent crimes, life-sentence crimes and large drug cases: after a hearing, a judge may refuse bail entirely (Okla. Const. art. II § 8).
• Possessing drugs for personal use: State Question 780 turned this into a misdemeanor as of July 1, 2017.
• Property crimes: since SQ 780, theft or damage under $1,000 is a misdemeanor too.
• Hobart or Mountain View city tickets: each town's own municipal court decides the bond.

Bonds paid at the jail go to 301 S. Jefferson, Hobart, OK 73651. Work through this list:

1. Dial 580-726-2381. Spell your person's full legal name and say their birth date.
2. Write down the bail figure, each charge and its case number.
3. Find out whether staff can accept the bond tonight, or whether it has to go through the Court Clerk instead.
4. Learn which kinds of money staff accept, and the exact spelling to use on a money order.
5. Check for holds from other counties or towns before you spend a cent.
6. Bring ID with your picture on it, plus the full sum. Keep the paper receipt until a judge closes the case.

If nobody picks up, the Sheriff's Office main number, 580-726-3265, can connect you.

Yes. In District Court cases, bonds and cash bail refunds run through the Court Clerk's office.

• Court Clerk: inside the county courthouse, 316 S. Main, Hobart, OK 73651, 580-726-5125. Letters go to P.O. Box 854, Hobart, OK 73651. Staff work regular business hours, and the building shuts on some holidays.
• Hobart Municipal Court (city tickets and city warrants): 111 E 3rd Street, Hobart, OK 73651. Ask City Hall at 580-726-3100 for the court clerk.
• Mountain View Municipal Court: City Hall, 321 Main Street, Mountain View, OK 73062, 580-347-2711. Doors are open Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Phone ahead so the drive to Main Street isn't wasted. Confirm the amount, the forms of payment that office takes, and when word of the paid bond reaches the jail.

The jail sets its own payment rules, and they can change. Before you leave the house, call 580-726-2381. Ask whether staff take bills, cashier's checks, money orders or cards, and whether a card adds a fee.

Two towns let people settle city tickets on the web. These links pay citations and fines only. A jail bond is handled by phone or in person:

• Hobart's court page points to EZTicketPay. Have the citation number, the fine and your phone number ready.
• Mountain View sets out its payment options for town court fines.

Cash should never go in an envelope.

Every bail bondsman in the state works under a license from the Oklahoma Insurance Department. Acting as one without it breaks the law (59 O.S. § 1303(A)). Keep these points in mind before you hire one:

• Before writing a single bond in Hobart, a bondsman has to register at the Court Clerk's office (59 O.S. § 1320(A)).
• The fee, called the premium, is printed on the bond itself. Every receipt a bondsman hands out must carry a number of its own (59 O.S. § 1316).
• The company keeps the premium once the person is freed. If no release ever happens, the fee and any collateral come back to you without delay (59 O.S. § 1327(B)(2)).
• Before any missed date, the company is allowed to surrender the person to the jail. In certain cases it keeps the fee anyway (59 O.S. § 1327(A)).
• Jail staff and police can't work as bondsmen (59 O.S. § 1315(A)). Bondsmen who chase business around the jail can be disciplined (59 O.S. § 1310(A)(16)).

Before signing, run the company's name through the Bail Bondsmen Licensee Lookup. To report trouble, fill in the department's complaint form or reach the bail bond division by phone at 405-521-6610. The office is at 400 NE 50th Street, Oklahoma City, OK 73105.

A bond only frees a person from one case. Any of these can still stand in the way:

• A hold from Caddo, Comanche or another Oklahoma county or town. Under HB 1991 (2025), that other place's bond can now be posted while the person sits in the Hobart jail, and the hold then drops.
• An unpaid city warrant. Tickets from Hobart or Mountain View need a separate bond through that town's court.
• Probation or parole. A DOC officer may want the person held for a violation. Reach the Department of Corrections at 405-425-2500.
• A repeat DUI. The person stays put until a judge signs a bail order.
• A federal warrant or an ICE detainer. Posting a state bond leaves both in place.

Before you pay anybody, call the jail at 580-726-2381 and ask staff to name each agency with a claim on the person.

Under Oklahoma's constitution, bail is the normal rule for most charges. It lets a judge say no only for these kinds of charges (Okla. Const. art. II § 8):

• crimes that could carry the death penalty, where guilt looks clear
• violent offenses
• offenses where the sentence could be life, with or without a chance of parole
• a new felony by someone who already has two felony convictions from separate events
• drug crimes where the law allows a decade or more behind bars

Outside death penalty cases, the judge needs two findings. The case against the person must look strong. On top of that, the judge must decide that no list of conditions would protect neighbors, victims or anyone else. The same constitution forbids excessive bail (Okla. Const. art. II § 9), and it gives crime victims a voice at release hearings (Okla. Const. art. II § 34).

When prosecutors want someone kept without bail, the request comes from the DA's local office for District 3, 316 S. Main, Hobart, OK 73651, 580-726-3335.

Yes, through the defense lawyer. The lawyer asks the judge for a lower figure or easier rules, and the family helps build the case:

1. The lawyer files a written motion in District Court.
2. Gather recent pay stubs, proof of an address in Hobart or a nearby town, notes from relatives, and a true figure for what you can raise.
3. Propose conditions the judge may accept, such as weekly check-ins at the courthouse or staying away from the person in the case.
4. Point to the state constitution's ban on excessive bail (Okla. Const. art. II § 9).

The Court Clerk at 580-726-5125 can explain how a bond hearing is put on the calendar. Without a lawyer yet? Request the court-appointed counsel form on that same call.

Yes, when jail time is possible. The state's top criminal court settled this in 2025. Its Spybuck ruling says anyone who could be jailed, for a misdemeanor as much as a felony, has a right to counsel (2025 OK CR 7). For a case filed in Hobart, it works this way:

• The Court Clerk's counter takes the completed request. Someone behind bars should get the form from a jailer.
• A district judge rules on whether the person can afford a lawyer (22 O.S. § 1355A). The judge may look at bail, yet that alone can't decide it.
• The $40 charge lands in the Court Fund. If asked, a judge can let that bill wait until the last hearing.
• When the judge approves, the Oklahoma Indigent Defense System takes the case. Calling OIDS directly will not get a lawyer named.

Kiowa cases are covered by OIDS from Altus: 123 W. Commerce St., Suite 100, Altus, OK 73521, 580-782-2429. That office also serves Jackson, Tillman, Greer and Harmon.

Almost all criminal cases are heard in Hobart. Judicial District 3 joins this District Court with those of Greer, Harmon, Jackson and Tillman.

• District Court (state felonies and misdemeanors): 316 S. Main, Hobart, OK 73651. Court Clerk 580-726-5125.
• Hobart Municipal Court (breaking city rules): 111 E 3rd Street, Hobart, OK 73651, 580-726-3100.
• Mountain View Municipal Court: City Hall, 321 Main Street, Mountain View, OK 73062, 580-347-2711. The judge sits on the first Tuesday of every month at 4 p.m.
• Federal court (federal crimes): U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma, Lawton clerk's office, 410 SW 5th Street, Lawton, OK 73501, 580-355-6340.

Got a ticket from Snyder, Lone Wolf, Gotebo, Roosevelt, Mountain Park or Cooperton? The Court Clerk can tell you where it is filed.

Once the case is finished, cash bail is refunded. The same is true if the person is surrendered early (59 O.S. § 1328(A)). Keep the receipt with your ID, and direct refund calls to the Court Clerk at 580-726-5125.

Skipping a court date sets 59 O.S. § 1332 in motion:

• The judge declares the bond forfeited and has ten days to sign an arrest warrant.
• Inside 15 days, a written forfeiture order is filed. The clerk mails out notice of it no later than 30 days after that.
• Next comes a 90-day window. If the bondsman delivers the missing person to the court inside it, the forfeiture is wiped away.
• Miss that window, and the company must pay the full bond to the Court Clerk.

Town courts in Hobart and Mountain View act on the spot. A missed date there means the bond is forfeited that same day, and the town subtracts its court costs from the money (11 O.S. § 27-118). Jumping bail also carries penalties of its own (22 O.S. § 1110).

Oklahoma jail standards require staff to confirm who a person is before letting them go. Anything taken at booking is checked off the property sheet, and the person signs once it is in their hands (OAC 310:670-5-1).

Money left on a jail account, and items a person can't carry out, are handled separately. Call 580-726-2381 and ask two things: how any leftover balance is paid out, and when a relative may collect belongings. Expect to show a photo ID, and maybe a signed note from your person. Our money page explains, in general terms, how families add funds and how leftovers are refunded.

Federal crimes from Kiowa, Tillman and nearby counties go to the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma. Its closest clerk's office is at 410 SW 5th Street, Lawton, OK 73501, 580-355-6340. Only a few staff work there, so phone first. The main courthouse stands at 200 NW 4th Street, Oklahoma City, OK 73102, 405-609-5000.

• A federal magistrate or judge settles release at a detention hearing (18 U.S.C. 3142).
• From arrest to trial, federal prisoners from southwest Oklahoma answer to the U.S. Marshals Service, 200 Northwest 4th Street, Room 2022, Oklahoma City, OK 73102, 405-231-4206.
• Many Marshals prisoners spend time at the Federal Transfer Center, 7410 S. MacArthur Blvd, Oklahoma City, OK 73169, 405-682-4075.
• For the judge, U.S. Probation and Pretrial Services in Lawton prepares a background report: 410 SW 5th, Room 101, Lawton, OK 73501, 580-353-0387.
• Sentenced federal prisoners appear in the Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate locator.

No. An immigration detainer is a federal request that a local bond can't cancel. Here is the normal pattern:

1. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, called ICE, sends the Jefferson Street jail a Form I-247A detainer.
2. Under that paper, jail staff may hold the person up to 48 hours after they would otherwise be released (8 CFR 287.7(d)).
3. ICE agents come to collect them. The Dallas Field Office handles Oklahoma from 8101 N. Stemmons Frwy, Dallas, TX 75247, 972-367-2200. A local ICE office sits at 1220 Sovereign Row, Oklahoma City, OK 73108, 405-219-3199.
4. People in ICE custody in Oklahoma may be taken to Cimarron Correctional Facility, 3200 S. Kings Hwy., Cushing, OK 74023, information line 918-225-3336. Some pass through the Federal Transfer Center first.
5. Search the ICE Online Detainee Locator. The A-number works best. Without one, type the name along with the country of birth.

Oklahoma lawmakers also passed HB 4156 (21 O.S. § 1795), which makes it a state crime to enter and stay here without federal permission. Officers can't enforce it for now. A federal judge put it on hold, and Oklahoma is fighting that order on appeal.

Prison time is served in the custody of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections. Expect a delay. DOC says the ride to state custody tends to happen 6 to 9 months out, and the person waits in the Hobart jail meanwhile. Jail days before sentencing are, in nearly every case, taken off the prison term.

From the jail, the person rides to a DOC center for assessment and reception. At that center, workers study what the person did, how many years the judge gave, and more. The score they reach decides the custody level, and that level points to a prison.

• Search by name, or by DOC number once one is given, on the DOC Offender Lookup.
• Our Oklahoma prisons guide describes each facility.
• DOC central office: 4345 N. Lincoln Blvd, Oklahoma City, OK 73105, 405-425-2500.

The Office of Juvenile Affairs (OJA) runs youth cases for this county from an office in Caddo County: 105 E Oklahoma, Anadarko, OK 73005, 405-247-2501. It is open weekdays from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

• The Jefferson Street jail does not house kids; a juvenile detention center does. Oklahoma's jail rules allow only a six-hour stay in an adult lockup, for booking or transfer, and the teen must never share space with adult prisoners during it (OAC 310:670-5-5).
• Under OJA's rules, a detained child gets a detention hearing soon, normally by the next judicial day.
• Certain grave crimes let prosecutors treat a teen of 15, 16 or 17 as a youthful offender. A judge may also move a youth's case to adult court through certification.
• Local OJA services come through Great Plains Youth and Family Services, 901 S. Broadway, Hobart, OK 73651, 580-726-3383.

Parents should call OJA right away. Ask which center has the child and the date of the detention hearing.