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Fremont County Jail Overview

Fremont County Jail is operated by the Fremont County Sheriff's Office. The sheriff's office and jail share the Law Enforcement Center address at 2814 200th St., PO Box 359, Sidney, IA 51652-0359. The jail phone is 712-374-2115, the sheriff office line is 712-374-2424, and the fax line is 712-374-2532. The official sheriff page identifies Kevin Aistrope as sheriff, and the sheriff contact page lists Tim Bothwell as chief deputy.

The jail is a county-jail facility, not a state prison, federal prison, or ICE detention center. It holds pretrial detainees arrested in Fremont County, people serving local jail sentences, and people arrested by local, state, or possibly federal agencies before release, transfer, or court action. Sentenced state-prison custody from a Fremont County case moves to the Iowa Department of Corrections, and federal or immigration custody must be checked through separate federal systems.

The official Fremont County Sheriff page is the county source for the sheriff, address, office phone, jail phone, and fax.

That page supplies the core jail contact facts, but it does not publish a current inmate roster or public jail handbook.

Fremont County Jail Capacity

The Fremont County Jail capacity story is tied to the county's Law Enforcement Center project. Official March 2013 board minutes say a jail study committee recommended a new 20-bed Law Enforcement Center on the Holt site and requested a $5,540,000 bond election. Vera's jail-construction dataset separately lists Fremont County as a 2015 new jail project with a $5,500,000 amount and capacity before 9 and after 20. Vera's 2019 county data listed a rated capacity of 21 and a total jail population or average daily population of 18.

These figures should not be blended into one unsourced "current" number. The 20-bed figure comes from county planning records, the 9-to-20 shift comes from Vera construction data, and the 21-rated-capacity figure comes from Vera's 2019 jail population data. No official Fremont County current daily population dashboard was located.

The Prison Policy Initiative correctional-location list identifies Fremont Co. Jail as a local jail rather than a state or federal institution.

That local-jail classification supports the one-facility map for Fremont County and prevents routing county inmates to a nonexistent local state prison page.

Fremont County Jail Lookup Chain

No official Fremont County online jail roster or inmate-search portal was located on the county or sheriff site. That is a county-specific access condition, not just a broken link. A Fremont County Jail custody search should start with the direct jail line, then move through sheriff records, public press releases, VINE, Iowa Courts Online, and state or federal locators only when the custody level changes.

1. Call Fremont County Jail at 712-374-2115 for current custody, booking, bond, release, visitation, or property questions.
2. If the jail cannot provide the record by phone, call the sheriff office at 712-374-2424 or use fax 712-374-2532 for records follow-up.
3. For a written or in-person records request, use Fremont County Sheriff's Office, 2814 200th St., PO Box 359, Sidney, IA 51652-0359.
4. Check the sheriff press-release page and arrest-log PDFs for recent adult arrest details, bond/status language, incident numbers, and warrant clues.
5. Use Iowa VINE for release, transfer, or escape notification when notification is the goal.
6. Use Iowa Courts Online for filed charges and court dates after the clerk opens a case.
7. After state-prison sentencing, search Iowa DOC Offender Search. For federal or immigration custody, use the BOP or ICE locator.

A sheriff press release can show that a person was arrested or held at the time of publication, but it cannot prove current custody weeks later. A VINE registration can help with notice, but it is not the same as a certified sheriff record or court record.

Fremont County Jail Contact

The jail and sheriff's office are separate from the Fremont County Courthouse and County Attorney's Office at 506 Filmore Street. Visitors, records requesters, and people posting bond should use the 200th Street jail address for jail matters. Official county sources did not publish lobby hours, visitor parking details, public-transit routes, booking counter hours, ADA entrance notes, or public property-pickup instructions.

The official contact card confirms the jail and sheriff numbers. It also lists emergency contact as 911, which should be reserved for emergencies rather than routine inmate-record questions.

Fremont County Jail Visits

No official Fremont County page was found that publishes a jail visitation schedule, video visit vendor, dress code, visitor entrance rules, holiday rules, attorney visit schedule, or lockdown policy. The correct treatment is to state the gap and send visitors to the jail phone before traveling. Because Fremont County is rural and the jail sits outside the courthouse square, confirming the visit window and entrance instructions matters.

Bring government photo ID unless the jail gives different instructions. Do not bring weapons, contraband, or unnecessary electronics into a secure jail setting. Specific visitor screening rules were not published in the official Fremont County sources reviewed.

Fremont County Jail Mail and Money

Fremont County official sources did not publish a county-authored jail mail format, inmate ID rule, commissary vendor, deposit limits, deposit fees, property-release process, tablet program, or phone-call rate table. The known official address is the sheriff and jail address, but senders should call for the required inmate name format, booking identifier, allowed items, and return-address rules before mailing anything.

The Reliance Telephone Fremont County Jail facility page was located as a vendor source for phone or inmate-wallet options.

Because that page is vendor-provided rather than a county-authored policy page, deposits and rates should be verified with the jail before money is sent.

Do not use Iowa DOC prison mail or DOC money rules for the Fremont County Jail. DOC central mail processing, DOC facility codes, Access Corrections, JPay, Western Union, and the Fort Dodge fiduciary account are state-prison channels, not county jail instructions.

Booking at Fremont County Jail

Fremont County did not publish a booking timeline, roster refresh interval, property inventory policy, medical vendor, jail handbook, or housing-unit guide. Iowa law and jail standards still frame the intake process. After arrest or warrant service, the person may be taken to Fremont County Jail unless cited, released, moved for medical care, or taken to court first. Jail staff record identifying details, custody authority, commitment and discharge details, and jail-calendar information under Iowa Code Chapter 356.

Iowa Code 690.2 requires fingerprints for qualifying custodial arrests and authorizes photographs in qualifying arrest or citation situations. Iowa Administrative Code 201 Chapter 50 sets jail standards for admission screening, medical resources, suicide prevention, classification, separation, staffing, and training. Public Fremont County logs do not show housing pods, cell blocks, medical screening data, or projected release dates.

Name, age, sex, and address

Shown for many adult entries in sheriff arrest logs; juvenile entries are redacted.

Arrest date and location

Shown in press releases and logs when the sheriff publishes the arrest.

Charge code and description

Appears in sheriff logs and may differ from later court charges.

Incident or warrant number

Useful as a sheriff records key and sometimes as a court-search clue.

Release reason

Sample entries include SURETY BOND, CASH BOND, and juvenile handling.

Fremont County Jail Records

The strongest local public record sources are the sheriff office phone line, the jail phone line, sheriff press releases, arrest-log PDFs, Iowa Courts Online, and Chapter 22 public-records requests. No dedicated Fremont County Sheriff online records request form was located. Iowa Code Chapter 22 allows public-record requests by phone, in person, in writing, or electronically, though the agency can require enough detail to locate the record and may charge lawful fees.

A narrow jail records request should include full name, date of birth if known, arrest date, incident number, warrant number, charge code or description, and the exact record needed. Ask for a booking sheet, jail calendar entry, incident report, release reason, bond status, or booking photo only when that is the record sought. Juvenile, investigative, medical, safety, and expungement rules can limit access.

After Fremont County Jail Transfer

Fremont County Jail is the starting point for local jail custody, but it is not the lookup channel for every later custody event. If a person is sentenced to state prison from a Fremont County case, use Iowa DOC Offender Search and narrow by county of commitment when helpful. DOC search covers sentenced offenders and some supervision statuses; it is updated weekly and may change quickly.

No Iowa DOC prison, BOP prison, ICE detention center, city jail, regional jail, or work-release annex was found in Fremont County official source research. The facility list for this county is therefore limited to Fremont County Jail.

Fremont County Jail History

The current jail replaced an older law-enforcement setting with deep local history. KETV reported in 2018 that the sheriff's department had been operating from an 1889 building where the jail was upstairs and the sheriff historically lived in the facility. The new multimillion-dollar Law Enforcement Center was described as a safety and operations improvement for staff.

Fremont County's 2023 sheriff activity, reported by WOWT from the sheriff's year-end report, included 12,003 calls for service, 342 arrests, and 530 criminal charges. Those figures are law-enforcement activity measures, not the same as jail bookings or average daily jail population. They do show why the jail, sheriff records, court records, and VINE channels all matter in a rural county without a live public roster.