This is a private reference site, not the Grundy County Sheriff's Office, jail, clerk, court, DOC, BOP, ICE, or IowaVINE. It cannot verify custody, release a detainee, post bond, schedule visitation, or retrieve an official booking record. Use the official offices below for those requests.
Official Offices and Lookup Routes
For current local custody or a written jail public-information check, start with the Grundy County Sheriff's Office and Grundy County Jail. The county records page says written jail-record checks require the person's full name and date of birth, and mailed requests need a self-addressed stamped envelope.
Grundy County Sheriff's Office / Grundy County Jail705 8th Street
Grundy Center, IA 50638
Phone: (319) 824-6933
Fax: (319) 824-5826
Email: sheriff@grundycountyiowa.gov
Tip email: inform@grundycountyiowa.gov
Office hours: Monday-Friday, 8 am-4 pm
Emergency: 911
For court records after an arrest, use the local clerk or Iowa Courts Online rather than the jail record process.
Grundy County Clerk of Court706 G Avenue
Grundy Center, IA 50638
Phone: 319-824-5229
Hours: Monday-Friday, 8 am-4:30 pm
- Current or recent local custody questions belong with the sheriff's office and the jail inmate records process.
- Booking-photo questions should start with the county's jail public-information process and the jail roster mugshots page.
- Filed criminal charges and docket events belong with Iowa Courts Online and court records after a jail arrest.
- Facility address and visitation context for the local jail is listed on the Grundy County Jail page.
- Sentenced state prisoners or supervised Iowa offenders should be checked through the Iowa Department of Corrections Offender Search.
- Federal custody should be checked through the Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate locator; immigration detention should be checked through the ICE Online Detainee Locator System.
- Custody-status notification may also be available through Iowa VINELink.