1. Pull up the official jail inmate search and enter the last name. Fewer letters can catch a misspelling.
2. Next, try Texas IVSS-Counties. It runs a name search with no sign-up needed. Any hit flags a person currently held or under supervision.
3. Write down the booking or inmate number you see. Jail staff, bondsmen and clerks all ask for it.
4. Still nothing? Phone the jail at 830-278-4111 and spell the name slowly, with a birth date.

The state's help desk for IVSS-Counties answers day and night at 866-268-8959, in English or Spanish.

Several things can cause a blank result:

• Booking hasn't wrapped up. Prints, the mug shot and intake forms can stretch over hours, and the record may stay hidden until then.
• The spelling differs. Try a nickname, a second last name, a hyphen or just the first few letters.
• They already left. A bond, a personal bond from the magistrate, or prosecutors declining the case can mean a same-day release.
• They were moved. On August 1, 2022, the state's jail commission counted 25 county prisoners being housed in other jails. People can also leave for state prison or federal custody.

The Texas Commission on Jail Standards lists just one jail for the whole county, the one on King Fisher Lane. So the Sheriff's front desk, 830-278-4111, is the place to ask, even if a city officer made the arrest.

The main stop is the King Fisher Lane jail, 339 King Fisher Lane, Uvalde, TX 78801, 830-278-4111. Its state-rated capacity is 218 beds. A head count on June 1, 2022, found 186 people inside. Of those, 127 were local prisoners and 59 were held for other agencies under contract, including 55 federal detainees.

When beds run short, the county can send people to another jail. The state's report doesn't say which one. These are the closest county jails. Check with the Sheriff's Office first; don't make a trip on a guess.

• Real County Jail (north, in Leakey): 146 US-83, Leakey, TX 78873, 830-232-5201.
• Medina County Jail (east, in Hondo): 801 Avenue Y, Hondo, TX 78861, 830-741-6058.
• Zavala County Jail (south, in Crystal City): 200 East Uvalde Street, Crystal City, TX 78839, 830-374-3615.
• Frio County Jail (southeast, in Pearsall): 510 South Cedar, Pearsall, TX 78061, 830-505-7153.
• Edwards County Detention Center (northwest, in Rocksprings): 404 W. Austin Street, Rocksprings, TX 78880, 830-683-4104.
• Bandera County Jail (northeast, in Bandera): 3360 State Hwy. 173 North, Bandera, TX 78003, 830-796-7759.

The county search and IVSS-Counties list custody details. For mugshots, the dependable route is a written request:

1. Send a letter or email to the Sheriff's Office, 339 King Fisher Lane, Uvalde, TX 78801 (Box 1), 830-278-4111, sheriff@uvaldecounty.gov. Mention the Texas Public Information Act, and identify the booking photo by name and arrest date.
2. Gov't Code 552.108(c) says basic arrest details must be released promptly. For a longer job, beyond ten business days, a delivery date has to be given.
3. Withholding anything usually requires the office to ask the Texas Attorney General for a decision, and you get told.

Texas also polices mugshot websites that sell removal (Bus. & Com. Code ch. 109). Where a site asks $150 or more to delete a record, fixing or deleting an inaccurate one must be free. And a site can't publish a record once it knows a court expunged or sealed it.

Immigration booking photos are a separate matter: request them on the ICE FOIA page. As a rule, federal booking photos aren't released. Marshals are the exception: they may release a photo, say, to find a fugitive.

Texas IVSS-Counties does exactly that. Registering takes a few minutes, and an account is optional. Once you register, notices come by phone or online at each booking, release or move to TDCJ. The service also reports an escape or a death, plus court dates that are scheduled or moved.

There's no fee, and the person in jail never finds out you registered. Call 866-268-8959 any hour for help. The Governor's office began taking over the system on September 1, 2026.

A magistrate hearing comes fast, inside 48 hours, and may take place on a screen inside the jail (CCP art. 15.17). Expect four things there: the charge, a rundown of rights like silence, the chance to request a court-paid lawyer, and a bail figure. Release then comes in one of three forms:

• Cash bond. Someone pays the whole amount at the jail. After the case closes, it's returned, minus fees, fines or costs the court subtracts.
• Surety bond. For a fee that stays with the company, a licensed bondsman guarantees the full bail.
• Personal bond. The person's signed promise to come to court replaces cash. Many violent charges don't qualify.

In family violence cases with a real risk of more violence, release comes four hours after posting, not right away (CCP art. 17.291(b)). A bond also won't free someone with a hold, like an immigration detainer, a parole board's blue warrant or a warrant from elsewhere. For the full process, our bail page lays it out; JE's Texas bail law overview covers the rules for the whole state.

Jail staff at 830-278-4111 can list the booked charges and their levels. Once a case is filed, the clerks keep the official papers:

• Felony charges: the District Clerk, 100 N. Getty St., Uvalde, TX 78801 (Box 15), 830-278-3918.
• Class A and B charges: the County Clerk's office at Courthouse Square #20, Uvalde, TX 78801, 830-278-6614.

The prosecutor may add, swap or drop counts once the case reaches court. Many filed counts show up on re:SearchTX, the statewide court records site, once you set up a free login.

Asking happens at the magistrate hearing: the person requests a court-appointed lawyer. Next comes a short money form covering income, household size and bills. Under the county's indigent defense plan, the 38th District Court's coordinators review it at the courthouse, 100 N. Getty St., Uvalde, TX 78801, 830-278-3913.

Texas sets short deadlines for that appointment. Once appointed, the lawyer has a one-workday window for a first call or visit (CCP art. 26.04). Paying for a private attorney is also allowed, whenever a family chooses. Like an appointed one, a hired lawyer can visit, seek lower bail and argue at hearings.

Days, times and sign-up steps for visits come from the jail itself, so call 830-278-4111 before you go. Bring a photo ID. Our visitation page has more tips.

Texas sets a minimum for every county jail. Each person held gets two visits or more weekly, at least 20 minutes apiece, without physical contact. One of those slots each week must fall after the workday or on Saturday or Sunday. A minor coming to visit might have to bring a parent, guardian or lawyer. Verified veterans may also meet a veterans service officer free of charge, and those meetings don't count toward the minimum.

Plenty of Texas jails run video visiting too, either from a home device or a screen in the lobby. Ask if King Fisher Lane does, and what it costs.

Money on the books buys snacks, stamps, hygiene items and phone time. Ask jail staff which deposit methods are working this week: maybe a lobby kiosk, maybe a payment website, maybe a money order by mail. Have the booking number ready. Our deposits page lays out typical methods, and our commissary page lists what an account can buy. Don't mail cash, and hang on to every receipt. To check today's options, call the jail at 830-278-4111.

Nobody can phone into a cell. Instead, the person calls out, collect or using a prepaid account that family funds. Under Texas jail design rules, the booking room must have a phone for detainees (37 TAC 259.119), so a first call usually happens early. Ask staff which phone company the jail uses and whether tablets for messages are available. See our jail phone page for accounts, and our inmate messaging page for tablets. Remember that calls and messages, except with a lawyer, may be recorded.

Address it to the person's full name at the jail, 339 King Fisher Lane, Uvalde, TX 78801. Two questions for staff: does the envelope need a booking number, and are postcards the only option? Our jail mail page lists common rules.

State standards on correspondence help families. Letters have no limit in number or length, either direction. When an attorney writes, the envelope is opened in the inmate's presence, only to check for contraband. Someone who can't pay still receives writing paper and postage for three letters or more each week.

A letter breaking jail rules may be refused. Skip staples, glitter, stickers and anything written in crayon or marker. Call to confirm the current rules at 830-278-4111.

At booking, jailers list and bag every item the person carried: a wallet, phone, keys, clothes. Usually it goes home with them at release. If you need an item sooner, like car keys, the jailed person may have to sign a release naming you before staff hand anything over. Items taken as evidence stay with police until the case allows their return. Bring ID, and call ahead at 830-278-4111 to ask when the property window is open.

Call the jail at 830-278-4111 and ask to pass a message to the medical staff. Share health problems and the names and doses of medicines. Don't bring pills unless staff say so. Any hint of mental illness starts a 12-hour clock: by then, jailers must have told a magistrate (CCP art. 16.22).

If care seems to fall below state minimums, tell the Texas Commission on Jail Standards, whose staff inspect every county lockup. Its complaint page takes reports, or call 512-463-5505. Each jail must also post its own inmate complaint steps in common areas.

Sheriff's deputies handle most warrant arrests here. Constables and city officers handle others. To check for a pending one, dial 830-278-4111 and ask the Sheriff's Office, or phone the issuing court. Texas also posts photos of its most wanted fugitives on a DPS list called the Texas 10 Most Wanted, which is separate from local warrants. To handle a warrant safely, talk with a defense lawyer and then turn yourself in at the jail, 339 King Fisher Lane, Uvalde, TX 78801. Another option is calling the court to ask for a new date. Felony warrants are kept by the District Clerk, 100 N. Getty St., Uvalde, TX 78801 (Box 15), 830-278-3918.

Each court's clerk keeps its own calendar:

• Felonies: District Clerk, 830-278-3918.
• Class A and B misdemeanors: County Clerk, 830-278-6614.
• Fine-only tickets: Precinct 1 Justice of the Peace, 100 N. Getty St., Uvalde, TX 78801 (Box 14), 830-278-3921, or Precinct 6, 339 King Fisher Lane, Uvalde, TX 78801 (Box 4), 830-278-8123.

Registering with IVSS-Counties brings hearing-date notices too. For how the judges divide the work and what each hearing does, open our court page.

The federal courthouse for this county sits in Del Rio, at 111 East Broadway, Room L100, Del Rio, TX 78840, 830-703-2054. A detention hearing at that courthouse decides about release pending trial (18 U.S.C. 3142).

Before trial, Del Rio's U.S. Marshals Service office keeps custody: 111 East Broadway, Room 159, Del Rio, TX 78840, 830-703-2075. Plenty of federal prisoners sit in county jails by contract; in mid-2022 the King Fisher Lane jail held 55. So check with the Sheriff's Office too.

After sentencing, federal prisoners belong to the Bureau of Prisons. Plug a name (or a register number, when known) into the BOP's inmate locator.

1. Paperwork comes first. The jail on King Fisher Lane gets an immigration detainer, Form I-247A.
2. Next, deputies can keep the person up to 48 hours after they would otherwise be released, which gives ICE time to come (8 CFR 287.7(d)).
3. Agents pick the person up and drive them to an immigration detention center, which can be hours away.
4. Use the ICE Online Detainee Locator: enter the A-number, or else a name together with the birth country. The San Antonio Field Office is at 3523 Crosspoint Drive, San Antonio, TX 78217, 210-564-3300.

Texas jails have to honor every detainer, unless the person documents citizenship or other lawful presence to jailers (CCP art. 2A.060). No local office, sheriffs included, may slow-walk immigration work (Gov't Code 752.053). S.B. 8 (Gov't Code ch. 753), a 2025 statute, gives every county running a jail until December 1, 2026, for its sheriff to put a Uvalde 287(g) request to ICE and enter the pact if ICE agrees.

A felony sentence sends the person from King Fisher Lane into TDCJ, which is Texas's prison agency. Their first stop is an intake center for tests and classification. Afterward, TDCJ chooses a long-term unit based on needs and security level. The wait for that transfer happens in the county jail.

Families can track them on the TDCJ inmate search, which runs on a surname with at least one initial of the first name. Have a TDCJ or SID number? It works too. Anyone not yet moved from a county jail won't show, and updates come on business days only. JE's Texas state prisons page gives background on every unit.

In Texas, children 10 through 16 go through juvenile court (Family Code 51.02). They are held in juvenile detention, not with adults. Turning 17 changes things: Texas treats that age as adult, so an arrest then goes straight to King Fisher Lane.

A mom, dad or guardian must hear quickly from the officer holding the child (Family Code 52.02). A child who stays locked up sees a juvenile judge within two working days, and a court-appointed lawyer stands with them (Family Code 54.01). For the local detention center and hearing times, call 38th Judicial District Juvenile Probation, 121 E. Nopal, Uvalde, TX 78801, 830-278-1123.

Several agencies can make an arrest in the county. Most bring people to the same jail:

• Sheriff's Office, 339 King Fisher Lane, Uvalde, TX 78801, 830-278-4111. Deputies patrol the rural areas and small towns, run the jail and serve warrants.
• City of Uvalde police cover the county seat; the Sheriff's Office can pass along how to reach them.
• Sabinal Police Department covers the city of Sabinal. The Sheriff's Office can also connect you there.
• County constables serve papers and some warrants for the justice courts. Ask the Sheriff's Office which precinct handled a case.
• State troopers with Texas DPS (the Department of Public Safety) patrol highways, including the U.S. routes crossing the county.

Not sure who arrested them? Booking staff at the jail can look up the arresting agency.