Search Dallam County Inmate Records

Dallam County Jail Roster Status

No official Dallam County online jail roster, current-inmate search, booking report, warrant search, mugshot gallery, sheriff app, or jail mobile app was located in the official sources reviewed. The official county jail page gives the Dallam-Hartley County Jail phone and jail email, but it does not provide a searchable list of people in custody. The official Dallam County Sheriff page gives the sheriff office contact information and separates the sheriff phone from the jail phone, which makes the jail line the most direct current-custody channel.

That finding changes the search path. A Dallam County inmate record is not found by clicking a county roster link. It is confirmed by calling or writing the Dallam-Hartley County Jail, then using the right outside system if the person was transferred, sentenced, federally held, or involved in an immigration case. A booking record is also different from a court case. The jail may know the arrest charge and bond status before the clerk has a filed case. Once charges are filed, court records move through the County and District Clerk, re:SearchTX, and the courts.

Find Dallam County Jail Inmates

The direct search process begins with the jail because Dallam County does not have an official public roster form. Before calling, gather the person's full legal name, date of birth if known, arresting agency if known, and an approximate arrest date or time. That helps jail staff separate people with similar names and distinguish a current inmate from someone released, transferred, or held under another agency. If the person was arrested by Dalhart Police Department, the police report may be a city record, but custody after booking should still be checked through the county jail unless the city gives a different location.

1. Call the Dallam-Hartley County Jail at (806) 244-2541 for current custody, recent booking, release, transport, and bond-status questions.
2. Email jail-dispatch@dallam.org only for non-emergency written follow-up, and avoid sending sensitive identity documents unless staff instructs it.
3. Use the sheriff phone, (806) 244-2313, or sheriff@dallam.org when the request is broader than current jail custody.
4. For a Dalhart city police incident, use the City of Dalhart open-records request page for police reports and municipal records.
5. When charges have been filed, contact the County and District Clerk or search re:SearchTX for the court case rather than relying on the jail booking charge.
6. For sentenced prison, federal, immigration, or notification records, use TDCJ, BOP, ICE, or VINELink instead of the county jail.

Dalhart Police Department is a separate municipal agency at 609 Liberal St. The city police directory lists weekday business hours, administrative phone (806) 244-5546, non-emergency phone (806) 244-5544, and Chief Tommy Hughes. Those city records can matter when the arrest began with city police, but the Dallam-Hartley County Jail remains the practical local custody point for a person booked into the county jail system.

Dallam County Roster Search Fields

A roster search-field table is required here because it prevents a common error: assuming Dallam County has the same kind of vendor roster used by larger counties. The official research found no Dallam-Hartley online roster form. The table therefore records the actual county finding, then separates it from the state and federal locator fields used after a transfer or different custody path.

For sentenced Texas prisoners, the TDCJ inmate search uses Last Name, First Name, TDCJ Number, SID Number, Gender, and Race. TDCJ states that its data is updated on working days only and is at least twenty-four hours old. That delay matters when a Dallam County inmate has just moved from county custody to state prison.

Dallam County Inmate Record Fields

Because Dallam County did not publish a sample online jail profile, no county web record was inspected for field-by-field confirmation. The useful distinction is between a local booking record that may be requested from the jail or sheriff and a public web roster that does not exist in the official county pages reviewed. A jail booking record can contain sensitive or restricted material, and release may depend on public-information rules, active investigations, juvenile restrictions, privacy limits, or court orders.

Booking charges are not final court charges. Dallam County arrests can begin with the sheriff, Dalhart Police, DPS, or another agency, then move through booking, magistrate review, prosecutor review, and a court filing. For the court side of that path, the separate court records after jail arrest page explains how booking charges become clerk and court records.

Dallam County Jail vs TDCJ

Dallam-Hartley County Jail is the local county jail channel. It covers current county custody, recent booking, short local jail confinement, pretrial detention, local misdemeanor and state-jail-felony categories, and holds reported through the Texas Commission on Jail Standards. It is not a TDCJ prison, a Federal Bureau of Prisons facility, or an ICE detention center. The nearby TDCJ Dalhart Unit is locally relevant, but the official TDCJ unit page places it in Hartley County, so it is not a Dallam County facility page.

Use the county jail first when the question is immediate: is the person in jail, has bond been set, was there a release, or did a transport occur. Use TDCJ only after sentencing or transfer to state custody. Use BOP for federal custody, and use ICE ODLS for immigration custody. VINELink is best treated as an alert and notification channel, not a full source for booking records or court filings.

Dallam County Jail Facility Contact

The verified facility map has one local detention facility: Dallam-Hartley County Jail. It is operated through the Dallam County Sheriff's Office and jail-dispatch channel. The official jail page names Diane Guffy as Jail/Dispatch Administrator, gives the jail phone and jail email, and lists jail staff. The sheriff page names Sheriff Shane Stevenson, gives the sheriff office address, and describes county jail operation as a sheriff responsibility.

The Texas Commission on Jail Standards reported Dallam County with 51 beds and a total jail population of 17 on 2026-06-01. The same TCJS reporting set showed ADP 15, incarceration rate 1.99, and countywide population 7,526. These figures are jail population snapshots, not a live list of names. They help show the scale of the facility, but they do not answer whether a specific person is in custody.

Dallam County Booking Records

A typical Dallam County booking begins after an arrest by the Dallam County Sheriff's Office, Dalhart Police Department, Texas DPS, or another authorized agency. The person is taken to jail or a proper law-enforcement processing point. Intake can include identity checks, warrant and hold review, property inventory, safety screening, fingerprints, photographs, and creation of the booking record. The county did not publish a detailed local booking policy, roster refresh time, phone-call policy, property-release rule, or booking-report publication rule.

Texas Code of Criminal Procedure Article 15.17 requires an arrested person to be taken before a magistrate without unnecessary delay. That is when the person receives warnings, rights information, accusation details, and bail or release terms. For Dallam County, this can involve justice-court, county-level misdemeanor, and district-court pathways. The 69th District Court handles felony cases for Dallam, Hartley, Moore, and Sherman counties, while the County and District Clerk handles Class A and B misdemeanor records and district or county filings.

Booking

Administrative entry of an arrested person into jail records.

Pretrial

Custody before conviction or final case disposition.

Detainer

A hold request from another agency that can affect release.

PR bond

Release on a promise to appear, with conditions, rather than full cash payment.

Dallam County Jail Visitation Findings

The official Dallam-Hartley County Jail pages inspected did not publish a visitation schedule, video visitation vendor, mail format, commissary vendor, phone vendor, tablet vendor, money-deposit portal, dress code, attorney-visit policy, or holiday schedule. That absence should be treated as a finding, not a reason to fill the gap with a vendor used in another county. Call the jail before traveling, mailing anything, or trying to fund an account.

TDCJ visitation rules apply to sentenced state prisoners in TDCJ custody, not to local jail visits at Dallam-Hartley County Jail. A person transferred from Dallam County after conviction may later be found through TDCJ and must follow TDCJ visitation procedures. Until that transfer happens, the local jail remains the contact point.

Request Dallam County Booking Records

Texas Government Code Chapter 552, the Texas Public Information Act, governs requests to Texas governmental bodies. Dallam County did not publish a sheriff-specific online public-information form in the sources reviewed, but a written request can still identify the person, arrest date, arresting agency, and record sought. Useful examples include booking sheet, jail custody log, bond information, release status, or booking photograph. The agency may release, redact, withhold under an exception, or seek an attorney general decision.

Texas Local Government Code Chapter 351 covers county jail and sheriff duties, while Texas Government Code Chapter 511 creates and empowers the Texas Commission on Jail Standards. For booking photos and public criminal-record publishing issues, Texas Business & Commerce Code Chapter 109 is relevant to commercial criminal-record publishers, not to a county roster. Official Dallam County research did not locate a county mugshot gallery. Booking-photo requests should therefore route through the jail or sheriff records process, not commercial mugshot sites.