The roster opens as a printable file. There's no search box, so you scan it yourself:

1. Load the Sheriff's roster file.
2. Use your browser's Find tool and enter a surname.
3. Copy down two numbers from that line: the booking number and the inmate number.
4. Scan the rest of the row. It gives the booking date, each charge and its statute code, a case number, the bond or sentence and the court type.
5. Look at the date at the top. If it's old, recent bookings and releases won't show.
6. Phone 806-364-2311 before you drive over or send money.

A charge marked "NO BOND" has no bail amount on it right now. Staff can say whether one is coming or whether that charge can't be bonded.

No match on the roster can mean many things:

• The arrest came after the file's date. New bookings won't appear until the file is redone.
• Release already happened. A paid bond, a personal bond or a charge that was dropped can each end a stay quickly.
• Someone else holds them. A warrant out of another county can lead to a transfer there.
• The spelling differs. Search a hyphenated surname both ways, or try a first name alone.
• A federal agency or ICE has them. See the federal and immigration answers lower down.

Jail staff settle the question quickest: 806-364-2311. When Hereford officers did the arrest, their department can trace the person too at 806-363-7120. A free name check on IVSS-Counties covers county jails statewide.

One adult jail serves the county, the Deaf Smith County Jail, 3780 N. Progressive Rd., Hereford, TX 79045, 806-364-2311. It opened in 2022 alongside the Sheriff's Office. Some older listings still show a room in the courthouse at 235 E. 3rd St; that isn't where inmates are held.

When the arrest happened outside the county, or a warrant came from elsewhere, check these nearby jails:

• Oldham County Jail; Sheriff's Office, 105 S. Main Street, Vega, TX 79092, 806-639-2174
• Randall County Jail, 9100 S. Georgia St, Amarillo, TX 79118, 806-468-5752
• Castro County Jail; Sheriff's Office, 900 E. Bedford Street, Dimmitt, TX 79027, 806-647-3311

Children under 17 aren't placed in any of these. They go to juvenile detention.

Relatives often go hunting for mugshots in the first hours. The Sheriff's roster file has no photos; it is text only.

To get a booking photo, put the ask on paper as a Public Information Act request. Address the request to the Sheriff's Office, 3780 N. Progressive Rd., Hereford, TX 79045, and phone 806-364-2311 to learn who handles these. Basic arrest details must go out promptly, and an office needing over ten business days has to name a date (Gov't Code 552.108(c)).

Other places photos may turn up:

• Fugitives the state lists on the DPS 10 Most Wanted appear with pictures.
• For an ICE photo, file with ICE FOIA.
• Federal booking pictures seldom become public. The Marshals may release one, though, if it helps locate someone on the run.

A mugshot website asking $150 or higher for removal has duties under Texas law. It must fix or take down, without charge, a listing that's inaccurate or incomplete. It also can't publish records that were expunged or sealed (Bus. & Com. Code ch. 109).

IVSS-Counties took the place of VINE for Texas county jails. It's free, and it can:

• look up a person held in a county jail or on supervision, by whole or partial name
• ring your phone if that person gets booked, gets released or is handed over to TDCJ
• warn you when a court setting is added or moved

Enroll on the IVSS-Counties site. Making an account there is your choice. A phone line, 866-268-8959, takes calls day and night in English or Spanish. Signing up is private, and the person held isn't told.

Locally, it's the Justice of the Peace who serves as magistrate and fixes bail. Within 48 hours, the magistrate goes over the charge and the person's rights, accepts a request for an appointed lawyer and names a bail amount. The JP's page notes these hearings stream live on YouTube.

The common bond types:

• cash: paid in full by you, refunded after the case closes
• surety: a licensed bondsman posts it and keeps a fee
• personal: a signed pledge to come to court, with nothing paid up front

A bond doesn't always mean going home. An ICE detainer, a parole warrant, a warrant from another county or a family violence waiting period can each keep someone held. The jail at 806-364-2311 can name the amount and any hold. Our bail page goes into bondsmen, paying and getting money back; the Texas bail law guide covers rules for every county.

• Magistrate hearing: the charge is read aloud to the person, usually within 48 hours.
• Roster file: each charge lists its statute code and whether District, County, Municipal or JP court has it.
• Jail staff: 806-364-2311 gives charges and bond as of today.
• Clerks: District Clerk for felonies, 806-364-3901; County Clerk for Class B or Class A cases, 806-363-7077.
• Online: once a case is filed, re:SearchTX can show the filings. Sign-up costs nothing.

What shows at booking may not be the final charge. Recheck the court record ahead of every hearing.

A request is made at the magistrate hearing, along with a short sworn form about income and debts. The magistrate has 24 hours to pass that request on. Because the county has fewer than 250,000 residents, the appointing judge then has through the third working day after receiving the request to pick a lawyer (CCP arts. 15.17, 1.051).

In most appointed cases from this county, the lawyer comes from the Panhandle Area Public Defender, 900 S. Polk, Suite 206, Amarillo, TX 79101, 806-242-3415. Relatives can phone with the full name and booking number to learn if someone is on the case.

Hiring your own attorney instead remains an option at any point.

Phone 806-364-2311 before any trip. Ask about visiting days, how to sign up, ID, clothing rules and whether the visit happens in person, over video from home, or on a jail video terminal.

Under state jail standards, each person held is owed:

• a pair of noncontact visits weekly, none shorter than 20 minutes
• one visiting time on a weekend or in the evening
• a way for their minor children to visit, often with a parent, guardian or lawyer present

Those slots don't shrink when a verified veteran meets with a veterans service officer. Our visitation page adds scheduling pointers.

On the Sheriff's website, one button leads to a site for adding commissary funds. That balance buys snacks, hygiene items and other store orders. Keep the full name and booking or inmate number from the roster handy.

Fees, limits and any lobby deposit option are best checked with the jail at 806-364-2311. Walk-throughs are on our deposit page and our commissary guide.

Phone time runs on its own account, separate from commissary. The Sheriff's website links a second site just for telephone funds.

State design rules call for a telephone that newly booked people can use. For how phone accounts, messages and any tablet or email service work here, phone 806-364-2311. How these services usually run is laid out in our calls guide and email guide.

Keep talk about the charges off the jail phone.

Inmates are held at 3780 N. Progressive Rd., Hereford, TX 79045. Phone 806-364-2311 to check the right mailing address and whether letters should carry the booking or inmate number.

Under state jail rules:

• No limit applies to the number or length of letters going in or out.
• Letters from lawyers get opened with the inmate watching, solely to check for contraband.
• Someone with an empty account still gets stamps and paper for a minimum of three letters per week.
• Mail can be refused one case at a time, for breaking a rule.

Our inmate mail page covers what jails often turn away.

For a phone, keys, wallet or clothes taken at booking, call 806-364-2311 before you go. Questions worth asking:

• Must the inmate authorize you in writing?
• Which ID do you need to bring?
• What hours can items be collected?
• How does leftover account money get returned when the person leaves?

Report a health problem to the jail fast at 806-364-2311. Share medicines, allergies, pregnancy, seizures or mental health needs, and ask how prescriptions get handled.

Under CCP art. 16.22, the jail has 12 hours to tell a magistrate when someone shows signs of mental illness.

Texas jails must spell out a complaint process in the inmate handbook. When a concern goes unanswered, the state's jail standards agency takes complaints on its TCJS complaints page or at 512-463-5505.

Sheriff's deputies carry out county warrants, so start with their office: 806-364-2311. Constable Precinct 1 works from the courthouse, 235 E 3rd St, Hereford, TX 79045, 806-363-7014. Hereford police take calls at 806-363-7120.

Class C names sit on the JP's warrant spreadsheet. For statewide fugitives, DPS keeps a 10 Most Wanted list.

To settle a warrant, surrender at whichever court signed it, ideally with a lawyer, or call that court ahead. JP: 806-364-0999. District Clerk: Room 304, 235 East Third Street, Hereford, TX 79045, 806-364-3901.

For felony settings, phone the District Clerk: 806-364-3901. Class A and B misdemeanor dates come from the County Clerk at 806-363-7077. Class C settings are on the Justice of the Peace's dockets and calendar page.

An IVSS-Counties sign-up can also send court date notices. Each hearing, and which judge hears which level of charge, is explained on our criminal case page.

Amarillo hosts the federal court for cases started in this county: U.S. District Court, 205 SE 5th Avenue, Room 133, Amarillo, TX 79101, 806-468-3800.

A federal magistrate judge holds the hearing on release or detention (18 U.S.C. 3142). The U.S. Marshals hold pretrial federal prisoners, frequently in county jails they contract with. The Amarillo Marshals office can say where a person is: 205 SE 5th Street, Unit 214, Amarillo, TX 79101, 806-324-2350.

Following sentencing, search the BOP inmate locator; it takes a name or register number. Someone not yet tried may be missing from it.

Immigration officers who want a jail inmate send that jail Form I-247A. Once it arrives, staff can hold the person up to 48 hours after they would otherwise be released, so ICE can collect them (8 CFR 287.7(d)). Texas law (CCP art. 2A.060) makes its jails comply with a detainer, except where the person shows lawful status.

Steps to find someone ICE has taken:

1. Go to the ICE Online Detainee Locator.
2. The quickest search uses an A-number, meaning an alien registration number. Without one, try the name plus birth nation.
3. No result? Phone ICE in Dallas, the field office for North Texas: 8101 N. Stemmons Freeway, Dallas, TX 75247, 972-367-2200.

December 1, 2026, is the date by which Senate Bill 8 (2025) expects each Texas sheriff running a jail to have a signed 287(g) agreement with ICE. To find out this county's status, call the Sheriff's Office: 806-364-2311.

After a felony prison sentence, TDCJ, which runs the state prisons, collects the person from the county. Everyone starts at an intake unit; afterward TDCJ picks a unit that fits the person.

The TDCJ inmate search wants a surname spelled exactly, with a first initial at minimum. A TDCJ number or SID number works too. Data refreshes only on working days and runs a day or more behind.

Prison visits, mail and deposits are covered on our Texas prisons page.

Juvenile court handles children from 10 to 16; at 17, Texas law treats someone as an adult (Family Code 51.02). Instead of the adult jail, kids are brought to a detention facility or a juvenile processing office.

• The arresting officer has to notify a parent or guardian promptly.
• In the processing office, the child may have a parent, guardian or lawyer alongside.
• By the second working day, a judge must rule on keeping the child detained, and a lawyer is appointed beforehand (FC 54.01).

For the detention center holding a child, and for a juvenile probation contact, ask the Sheriff's Office: 806-364-2311.

Several agencies make arrests that end in this jail:

• Hereford Police Department, inside city limits, 212 Lee Avenue, Hereford, TX 79045, 806-363-7120. Patrol runs around the clock; the front office keeps weekday hours, 8 to 5.
• Sheriff's Office, covering the county outside town and running the jail, 3780 N. Progressive Rd., Hereford, TX 79045, 806-364-2311.
• Constable Precinct 1, at the courthouse, 235 E 3rd St, Hereford, TX 79045, 806-363-7014.
• DPS state troopers on the highways. To learn where a trooper's arrest was booked, call the Sheriff's Office.

Once booking is done, jail staff can name the arresting agency.