The county keeps its jail list offline, which means the hunt happens on a state site. Five moves:

1. Open IVSS-Counties, built by Texas for custody status and release notices.
2. Enter the surname, then the given name. Partial spellings are accepted, so try short forms, nicknames and any married or maiden surname.
3. Read the status beside each match. It shows custody now, or supervision outside.
4. Run that same name again through the official jail search.
5. Still nothing? Ring 830-232-5201 and ask a deputy to check the booking log.

Expect no booking photo in IVSS results. Bond amounts and charge details come by phone from the Sheriff, or from the clerk once a case is filed.

A blank screen rarely means someone walked out the door. Work through these:

• Brand new arrest. Somebody picked up an hour ago may still be in booking, with paperwork unfinished.
• Boarded out. Three beds fill quickly. Ask whether your person went to a jail in another county, then search for that facility as well.
• A different arresting agency. A state trooper, a federal officer or a sheriff from next door could have taken your person somewhere other than Leakey.
• Already out. Money posted, a no-cash release, or a charge the prosecutor dropped can each end custody before you ever search.
• Spelling. Hyphens, accents and two last names trip up name searches. Try each part alone.

Deputies keep the booking records, so 830-232-5201 is the line to try. Ask too whether another county has a hold on your person, since that can mean a transfer later.

Every booking here begins at the courthouse jail, 146 Highway 83 South, Leakey, TX 78873, phone 830-232-5201. Texas jail inspectors list one jail for this county, rated for three people, and the Sheriff runs it. No annex, work camp or women's unit shows up in state or county records.

Once those beds are full, prisoners are boarded in other counties' jails. State reports leave out which jail takes them, and a deputy is the one to tell you. Jails in this corner of Texas include:

• Edwards County Detention Center, 404 W. Austin Street, Rocksprings, TX 78880, 830-683-4104.
• Uvalde County Jail, 339 King Fisher Lane, Uvalde, TX 78801, 830-278-4111.
• Bandera County Jail, 3360 State Hwy. 173 North, Bandera, TX 78003, 830-796-7759.
• Kerr County Detention Center, 400 Clearwater Paseo, Kerrville, TX 78028, 830-896-1257.

None of these is a confirmed host for Leakey's prisoners. Phone the Sheriff first, and only then the jail a deputy names, before any long drive.

Mugshots from this jail are not part of the IVSS-Counties results. If you need one, these are the routes:

• Ask the Sheriff in writing. Put your Public Information Act letter in the mail to PO Box 445, Leakey, TX 78873-0445, addressed to the Sheriff. Include who was booked and on what date. Basic facts about an arrested person, an arrest or a crime must be handed over promptly, says Gov't Code section 552.108, subsection (c).
• Private mugshot websites. Texas Bus. & Com. Code chapter 109 reaches sites that demand $150 or more to pull a record. On a dispute, an inaccurate or incomplete record must be fixed or removed with no fee. Those sites must also leave alone anything a judge expunged or sealed by nondisclosure. Other removal fees remain legal.
• ICE photos. Request them under FOIA at ICE's records page.
• Federal booking photos. Federal agencies keep these private. Marshals are the lone outlier: they may release a picture when it helps them hunt down someone on the run.

Sign up through IVSS-Counties, with or without opening an account. Registered people hear from it when a prisoner is booked or let go, when a court setting is made or moved, and on a custody shift: an escape, a death, or a hand-off to TDCJ. It costs nothing, works in English or Spanish, and the prisoner is never told who registered.

Help with registering runs around the clock at 866-268-8959. Starting in September 2026, the state planned to move oversight of the service from the Attorney General to the Governor.

The Sheriff's web page still points to the old VINELink address. That link is out of date, since IVSS-Counties replaced VINE across Texas.

Before forty-eight hours pass after an arrest, a magistrate must see your person, read the accusation, explain rights, and fix bail (C.C.P. art. 14.06 and art. 15.17). Three doors lead out:

• Cash bond. The full amount, paid up front. It comes back once every bond condition is met, minus any small clerk's fee.
• Surety bond. A licensed bondsman or another surety signs for the amount and keeps a nonrefundable premium.
• Personal bond. Your person signs a written pledge to come to court, and nobody pays cash down.

Some charges carry extra limits. After November 2025's Prop 3, a judge may refuse bail on a short list of violent crimes when the prosecutor asks. On a family violence charge, a 2025 law keeps your person locked up four more hours after bond is posted.

Which window takes the money, and in what form, are questions for the Sheriff's Office. Our bail page lays out this county's release process from arrest to court.

At first, the arresting deputy's report and the booking sheet hold the charge. Ask the Sheriff's Office, 830-232-5201, for the offense and its grade, felony or misdemeanor. The magistrate also reads the accusation aloud at the 48-hour hearing.

After the prosecutor files, a cause number exists. For felonies plus jailable misdemeanors, that file lives with the County and District Clerk, 146 Highway 83 South, Leakey, TX 78873, 830-232-5202. Class C citations go through the JP's office, 830-232-6630.

Two state sites help with history. re:SearchTX shows filed papers after a free sign-up. Final convictions from every Texas county turn up, for a price, in the DPS conviction database.

At the 48-hour hearing, the magistrate asks your person about wanting counsel and being unable to pay. Saying yes starts the clock. Under the Real and Uvalde counties' appointment plan, someone should be appointed before working day three is over.

• Felony. The coordinators for indigent defense work out of the District Court in Uvalde: courthouse at 100 N. Getty St., Uvalde, TX 78801, 830-278-3913.
• Misdemeanor. The County Judge or a designee, 830-232-5304.
• Capital murder. These go to a regional office that defends only capital cases, as the plan directs.

Families may still retain private counsel whenever they choose. Complaints about how appointments work go to the Texas Indigent Defense Commission, 512-936-6994.

A statewide minimum covers this jail and every other. Each prisoner gets two noncontact visits a week or more, twenty minutes or longer apiece, with one slot falling on an evening or weekend. Jails pick the rules for adding names to a visitor list. Kids who visit may need an adult escort: parent, guardian or attorney. Veterans held in a Texas jail can also receive free visits from a veterans service officer.

Schedules, video options and dress rules vary by jail. Call the Sheriff's Office, 830-232-5201, before you head to Leakey, and confirm your person is still housed there rather than boarded out. Our visitation page covers what to expect and bring.

Money on account lets a prisoner buy snacks, soap, stamps and writing paper from commissary. For deposits here, ask the Sheriff's Office, 830-232-5201, three questions:

1. Does the jail take cash or money orders at the counter, by mail, or only through an outside company?
2. What name and booking detail must appear on the deposit?
3. Is there a weekly or monthly cap?

If your person was boarded out, money goes to the jail actually holding them, under its rules. Read about deposit choices on our inmate money page, and see what the store sells on our commissary page.

Under Texas design rules, booking areas have a phone that new arrestees may use. Past booking, calls run on whatever system this jail has chosen.

Phone the Sheriff's Office at 830-232-5201 to learn which phone company handles calls, how to set up a prepaid account, and whether tablets, video calls or messaging exist here. Ask too whether calls are recorded, and remind your person that the case is a topic for their lawyer only.

For more, see our jail phone page and the inmate messaging page.

The Sheriff's mailing address is PO Box 445, Leakey, TX 78873-0445. Write your person's legal name, first and last, above that box number. Phone the Sheriff's Office, 830-232-5201, to confirm the exact layout and what the jail accepts before you send photos, books or cards.

Texas jail standards protect a few basics:

• Outgoing letters have no cap on count, page length or who gets them.
• Incoming letters have no limit on number or length.
• Envelopes from an attorney get opened only with the prisoner present, and staff look just for contraband.
• A prisoner without funds still receives postage and writing supplies, enough to send three letters a week at minimum.
• Staff can reject a particular item that breaks a jail rule.

If your person sits in another county's jail, write to that facility instead. Our inmate mail page has packaging tips.

Whatever deputies took off your person at intake stays with the jail during custody. Getting it back works one of two ways: your person collects it on release, or signs papers letting someone else pick it up.

Before driving to the courthouse, call 830-232-5201. Ask whether items can go to a family member, what ID to bring, and when a deputy can hand them over. Boarded out to some other jail? Then find out whether the belongings traveled along.

Anything seized as evidence is a different matter. Seized items stay with the case file until released by court order or by the prosecutor, so the defense lawyer should ask about them.

Tell the jail right away about prescriptions, allergies, pregnancy, seizures or any mental health crisis. Call the Sheriff's Office at 830-232-5201 with each medicine's name and dose, and the doctor who prescribed it. A deputy can explain how medicine from home is handled.

Texas rules make every jail spell out its grievance steps, both in a handbook and on notices posted where prisoners live. Your person should use that process first and keep a copy.

Sometimes a jail holds a person in emergency mental health custody. A 2025 Texas law says that person must stay separate. They may not be housed with anyone accused or found guilty of a crime.

Unresolved trouble can go to TCJS, the state commission that inspects county jails. Their online complaint form asks for the jail, the prisoner's name and your contact details. Phone 512-463-5505, or send a letter to the agency's Austin post office box, 12985, zip 78711-2985.

In this county, deputies at 830-232-5201 and the Constable at 830-279-8772 carry out arrest warrants. Texas has no public statewide warrant lookup, so call the Sheriff's Office with the person's name and birth date. Statewide, DPS posts its Ten Most Wanted fugitives.

Clearing one means going before the judge who signed it. Line up a lawyer first. Then either walk in with that lawyer and surrender at the issuing court, or have counsel phone the court for a new setting. The courthouse clerk keeps felony and misdemeanor files at 146 Highway 83 South, Leakey, TX 78873, 830-232-5202.

The County and District Clerk keeps the docket for felonies and Class A and B cases. Call 830-232-5202 or email realcl@hctc.net with your person's name and birth date. Ask for two things: the cause number, and the day of the next setting.

IVSS-Counties also alerts anyone registered whenever a hearing gets scheduled or moved. For fine-only tickets, phone the JP's office at 830-232-6630.

A skipped hearing can lead to a fresh arrest warrant and the loss of the bond money, so write the date down and confirm it again a few days ahead. Hearing types, judges and record searches sit on our criminal court page.

When agents make a federal arrest in Leakey or Camp Wood, the case is filed in San Antonio, the federal court's division covering this county. The clerk's office: 262 West Nueva Street, Room 1-400, San Antonio, TX 78207, 210-472-6550.

1. First appearance. Jail or home until trial? A magistrate's ruling at the detention hearing, governed by 18 U.S.C. 3142, answers that.
2. Waiting for trial. The U.S. Marshals hold your person. To learn which jail, call the Marshals at 262 West Nueva Street, Room 2-300, San Antonio, TX 78207, 210-332-6800.
3. Lawyers. Prosecution comes from the U.S. Attorney, 601 NW Loop 410, Suite 600, San Antonio, TX 78216, 210-384-7100. When money for a lawyer is lacking, ask for the Federal Public Defender, 300 Convent Street, Room 2300, San Antonio, TX 78205, 210-472-6700.
4. After sentencing. Next stop is the Bureau of Prisons. Look your person up on the BOP locator, by name or by register number.

Immigration holds follow a set order in Texas:

1. Paperwork comes first. Immigration officers lodge Form I-247A, their detainer, at whichever lockup is keeping your person.
2. Once it is lodged, staff may hold the prisoner up to 48 hours after they would otherwise be released (8 CFR 287.7(d)).
3. Texas jails must honor the detainer. They must tell the prisoner too (C.C.P. art. 2A.060). Proof of American citizenship or lawful status ends the hold. No city or county here can put brakes on immigration enforcement, per Gov't Code 752.053.
4. Agents collect your person and take them to immigration detention.
5. Track them on the online detainee locator. Its search box likes A-numbers best. No A-number? Name plus native country can still find a match.

The San Antonio Field Office answers at 3523 Crosspoint Drive, San Antonio, TX 78217, 210-564-3300. Lawmakers in 2025 ordered jail counties into ICE's 287(g) program, with signatures owed by December 1, 2026. A deputy can say whether this county has signed. Any state charge stays open during immigration custody, so keep the defense lawyer informed.

When a felony ends in a prison or state jail term, TDCJ, the state prison agency, becomes the keeper. Your person may wait in a county jail first. TDCJ then runs intake, sorts each new arrival by security needs, and assigns a unit.

• The state prison lookup needs the precise surname and at least one first initial. Searching by SID, or by TDCJ number, also works.
• People show up there only while inside a TDCJ facility. Its records refresh on business days, so expect a delay of at least twenty-four hours.
• For unit addresses, see our Texas prisons listing.

IVSS-Counties can alert you when a county prisoner moves to TDCJ custody.

Texas treats ten through sixteen as juvenile age. Seventeen-year-olds with new charges are tried as adults and held as adults (Fam. Code 51.02(2)). For anyone younger:

• Officers owe the parent, guardian or custodian quick word of the pickup and its reason (Fam. Code 52.02(b)).
• Officers bring kids to a juvenile processing office, a youth detention center, or a medical facility. They do not go into adult cells. The local juvenile board plan caps processing office time at six hours.
• Mom, dad, a guardian or the child's attorney may sit in during processing (Fam. Code 52.025(c)).
• Detention requires a judge's hearing by working day two after the pickup. Counsel gets appointed ahead of that hearing, under Fam. Code 54.01.

Ask the Sheriff's Office, 830-232-5201, where the child is held and which juvenile probation office covers this county. The Texas Juvenile Justice Department is at 1711 San Jacinto Blvd, Austin, TX 78701, 512-490-7130.

The county has two towns: Camp Wood, and the seat at Leakey. Neither has a city police department in official listings, and the county contact page names the Sheriff as its law agency.

• Sheriff's Office: 146 Highway 83 South, Leakey, TX 78873, 830-232-5201. Use this line for arrest questions from either town and from the rest of the county.
• Constable: PO Box 509, Leakey, TX 78873, 830-279-8772.
• Texas Highway Patrol: When the cuffs came from a DPS trooper, deputies can still tell you which jail booked your person.

For an emergency, dial 911.