This is a private reference site, not a government office. We cannot confirm custody, release a person, post bond, or retrieve an official booking record. Contact the agency responsible for the record or custody question.
Official Benton County Contacts
The Benton County Sheriff’s Office is the county jail and booking-record contact. The official county site does not list a separate records-unit telephone number.
Benton County Sheriff’s Office113 E. 3rd St.
Vinton, IA 52349
Phone: 319-472-2337
Current custody: 319-472-2337, option 2
Office hours: Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., except holidays
Use the contact that matches the question:
- For a booking record or photograph, follow the written Benton County Open Records Request Form process summarized on the home page.
- For someone believed to have been arrested today or now held in the county jail, call the current-custody option or review Arrested Today.
- For recurring local multi-day reports, use Arrest Reports. Local news coverage is not a live official roster.
- For release or transfer notices, see VINE Arrest Check or call IowaVINE at 1-888-742-8463.
- For a filed criminal case and its outcome, search Iowa Courts Online or call the Benton County Clerk of Court at 319-472-2766.
- For a person committed to state custody, use the Iowa Department of Corrections Offender Search.
- Federal and immigration custody are separate. Use the BOP Inmate Locator or ICE detainee locator as appropriate.