Contacts

Official Adams County Contacts

Use the Adams County Sheriff Department for current county jail questions, booking status, jail records, Indiana VINE information, and public-record requests tied to sheriff or jail records. Sheriff Dan Mawhorr's office is listed at the Decatur law enforcement campus. Public material names James Miller in a jail PDF as jail commander, but that source should not be treated here as a current staffing confirmation.

For court copies and public court-record links, the Adams County Clerk is the better starting point. The Clerk's Office page links public-record request materials and online case-search resources, and the court-record request form lists copy fees of $1 per page plus $3 for each certified document. For prosecution-related questions, use the Adams County Prosecutor's Office, Jeremy W. Brown, 112 South 2nd Street - Courthouse, Decatur, IN 46733, 260-724-5338, prosecutor@adamscounty.in.gov.

Choose the contact route by the kind of record you need:

• For a person believed to be in the county jail, start with the sheriff's office and the jail inmate records page.
• For booking photos or photo-request limits, review jail roster mugshots before calling the jail.
• For charges filed after booking, use MyCase for Adams Superior Court and Adams Circuit Court, then see court records after a jail arrest.
• For a specific local facility, use the facility pages in the footer for the Adams County Sheriff's Office & Detention Center or the Work Release Building.
• For a sentenced state prisoner, use Indiana Department of Correction resources instead of the county jail.
• For federal or immigration custody, use the BOP or ICE locator because Adams County offices do not control those databases.
• For victim notification or custody-change alerts, Indiana VINE and VINELink are available, and county material gives 866-959-8463.