No Texas County Online Roster
No official Texas County public jail roster, inmate search, booking report, sheriff app, or mugshot gallery was located in the county sources reviewed. The Texas County Sheriff's Office page confirms that the sheriff operates the Texas County Justice Center and its 72-bed jail, but the reviewed pages do not provide a searchable current-inmate list. That makes the local lookup path different from counties that use a live vendor roster.
For a person who may be held after a recent arrest, start with the Texas County Sheriff's Office and jail by phone or in person. Then check Missouri Case.net for filed charges, the Missouri DOC Offender Search for sentenced prisoners, Missouri VINELink for custody notices, the BOP inmate locator for federal custody, and ICE ODLS for immigration custody. If none of those channels answer the question, a Missouri Sunshine Law request can ask for an identifiable booking, arrest, or jail record.
The county sheriff resource page is still useful even without a roster. The Texas County sheriff resources page links to Case.net, Missouri statutes, background checks, and law-enforcement contacts, which are the tools that help verify what happened after booking.
Search Texas County Jail Records
The Texas County Justice Center is the local custody point for people booked by the sheriff, city police departments, Missouri State Highway Patrol, and other agencies when they are held locally. A person arrested in Cabool, Houston, Licking, Summersville, or a rural part of Texas County may be booked, cited and released, held on a warrant, bonded out, or transferred. That is why name-only web searches miss people.
Use this order when the person may be in the Texas County jail:
- Call the Texas County Sheriff's Office and jail at 417-967-4165. Have the full name, date of birth or age, arrest date, arresting agency, and any case or warrant number.
- Ask whether the person is currently held, bonded out, released, transferred, or held for another agency. Also ask whether bond has been set and where it must be posted.
- If the arrest was by Cabool, Houston, Licking, or Summersville police, ask whether the person was sent to the county jail or handled through a municipal citation or release.
- Search Case.net by name or case number if charges may have been filed. Use the 25th Judicial Circuit or Texas County when possible.
- Search the Missouri DOC locator if the person has been sentenced and moved out of county custody.
- Use VINELink when custody status alerts matter, then use BOP or ICE only if the case has moved into those separate systems.
The county has no official sheriff or police mobile app with a Texas County jail roster in the reviewed sources. Do not treat scanner apps, commercial inmate sites, or mugshot pages as official jail records.
Important: A missing online result does not prove release, because Texas County did not publish a public roster in the reviewed official sources.
Texas County Roster Fields
Because no public Texas County online jail roster was found, there are no confirmed local search boxes to document. The correct field table for the county roster is a research finding, not a missing edit. It tells the reader that the public cannot rely on a local portal field such as booking number, housing unit, or charge filter unless the sheriff later publishes one.
| Field Label | Type | Required | Options / Format Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Not applicable | Not located | Not located | No official online Texas County jail roster found in reviewed sources. |
A phone or in-person request still works best when it is specific. Give staff the person's legal name, date of birth if known, arrest date, arresting agency, and case or warrant number. Ask a narrow custody question first. Then ask whether any bond, hold, transfer, or court entry changes the next step.
Texas County Booking Record Fields
No public sample Texas County jail profile was located, so the fields below are expected record items to request, not a claim that the county posts them online. A jail record is created for local custody work, while a court case record is created after charges are filed. Missouri law may also allow closures or redactions for investigative material, juvenile matters, protected identities, or other statutory limits.
| Field | What It Shows |
|---|---|
| Name / identifiers | Person booked or held, including aliases or date of birth when releasable. |
| Booking date/time | When the Texas County jail accepted custody. |
| Arresting agency | Sheriff, city police, MSHP, warrant agency, or another law-enforcement agency. |
| Booking or jail number | Internal tracking number if the jail uses one and it is releasable. |
| Charges / holds | Arrest charges, warrant holds, probation or parole holds, or other-agency holds. |
| Bond | Amount or type if set by court or warrant and releasable. |
| Custody status | In custody, released, transferred, bonded, or held for another agency. |
| Mugshot | Booking photo may exist in the jail file, but no public Texas County roster photo source was found. |
| Release/transfer | Bond release, release date, DOC transport, or transfer to another agency. |
The official sheriff page is the source for the Justice Center jail facts. It documents the county jail operation, staffing, prisoner transport duties, and Sheriff Scott Lindsey's office, which supports using the sheriff as the first Texas County inmate records contact.
That county source confirms the local jail exists and is sheriff-operated, but it does not replace a current custody call or a specific Sunshine request for a booking file.
Texas County Booking Intake
Texas County's official pages do not publish a step-by-step intake manual. The safe local description is that an arrest may begin with the sheriff, a city police department, MSHP, or another agency. If the person is held locally, the arrestee is taken to the Texas County Justice Center for booking. Intake normally includes identity checks, warrant and hold checks, search, property inventory, booking photo, fingerprints, screening, classification, and placement in a holding cell or housing area.
Booking is not the same as a conviction. Jail booking charges may be the arresting officer's preliminary allegations. The Prosecuting Attorney decides what charges to file, and the circuit clerk maintains the court file after entry. A charge can be amended, reduced, dismissed, or expanded after the jail record is created. For that reason, custody records and court records should be checked together.
- Booking
- The administrative intake after arrest.
- Bond
- Release security set by a warrant, judge, or court order.
- Detainer
- A hold or request from another agency.
- Classification
- The jail's housing and security assessment.
- Disposition
- The court outcome, such as guilty plea, dismissal, or other final result.
Texas County Custody Systems
Texas County jail records cover local custody. They do not cover every person with a Texas County connection. A person can move from local booking to state prison after sentencing, to another county on a warrant, to a federal process, or to immigration custody. Each move changes the public lookup source.
| Custody Question | Best Lookup Channel | What It Covers |
|---|---|---|
| Recent local arrest or county hold | Texas County sheriff/jail phone or in person | Current local custody, bond, release, transfer, or hold status. |
| Filed criminal case | Missouri Case.net | Charges, docket events, court dates, bond orders, and case status. |
| Sentenced state prisoner | Missouri DOC Offender Search | DOC ID, assigned facility, sentence/offense information, and release-related status where public. |
| Custody notification | Missouri VINELink | Notification registration and custody status where participating records are available. |
| Federal prison custody | BOP Inmate Locator | Federal inmate records, not county jail bookings or federal mugshots. |
| Immigration detention | ICE ODLS | ICE custody by A-number and country or biographical search. |
South Central Correctional Center is physically in Texas County, but it is a Missouri Department of Corrections prison in Licking. It holds sentenced state prisoners, not newly arrested Texas County pretrial detainees. Use DOC search for that facility.
The Missouri DOC Offender Search is the source to use after a Texas County sentence results in state-prison custody.
DOC records are prison records. They are useful after transfer, but they should not be read as a live Texas County jail roster.
Texas County Inmate Facilities
Texas County has one confirmed county detention facility and one separate state prison facility. The order matters. The Justice Center is the county jail for local booking and short-term custody. South Central Correctional Center is a DOC prison for sentenced state inmates.
Texas County Justice Center
519 N Grand Ave
Houston, MO 65483
417-967-4165
72-bed county jail operated by the Texas County Sheriff's Office.
South Central Correctional Center
255 W Highway 32
Licking, MO 65542
573-674-4470
Missouri DOC state prison, not a county jail roster source.
Texas County Visitation Records
The reviewed Texas County pages do not publish a Justice Center visitation schedule, visit type, mail format, commissary vendor, phone vendor, money-deposit method, dress code, child visitor rule, or attorney-visit rule. That lack of online detail is itself important for families. Call before travel, mail, money, medication, clothing, or property is sent or brought to the jail.
| Item | Texas County Justice Center Research Result |
|---|---|
| Public visit schedule | Not located in official sources reviewed. |
| Visit type | In-person, video, or remote visit rules not published in reviewed sources. |
| Visitor ID | Not located. Bring government photo ID and call first. |
| Mailing format | Not located. Confirm address format and allowed mail by phone. |
| Money deposit vendor | Not located. Confirm custody and payment rules before sending funds. |
| Phone provider/pricing | Not located in official county sources reviewed. |
DOC rules are different. South Central Correctional Center visitors, mail, money, and phone calls follow Missouri DOC family and friends rules, not Texas County sheriff rules.
Note: Confirm custody status with the jail before sending money or scheduling a visit, because release or transfer may change the rules.
Request Texas County Jail Records
Missouri Sunshine Law is the formal route when a Texas County inmate record is not available by phone, in person, or online. The Missouri Attorney General Sunshine Law guidance explains the public-record framework. Section 610.011 states the open-records policy, and Section 610.023 addresses custodians and request procedures. Section 610.100 is especially relevant to arrest reports, incident reports, and investigative reports.
Send a request that identifies the person, arrest date, arresting agency, case number or warrant number if known, and the record type. Use clear words such as booking record, arrest report, jail custody record, release date, transfer record, or booking photo. Ask for the preferred delivery method and whether fees apply. If the record is closed, redacted, or not held by that office, ask which office is the correct custodian.
Bond questions belong first with the jail or court. Confirm the person is in custody, whether bond has been set, where payment is accepted, and whether another hold blocks release. A person may post bond on one Texas County case and still remain in custody on a probation, parole, warrant, DOC, federal, or immigration hold.