This is a private reference site, not the Douglas County Sheriff's Office, Douglas County Jail, Court Administration, or the Minnesota Department of Corrections. It cannot confirm custody, release an inmate, post bond, schedule a visit, or pull an official booking record. Use the official contacts below for those tasks.
Official Douglas County Contacts
For current jail status, records requests, bond questions, or court timing, start with the office that handles that specific record.
Douglas County Jail
509 3rd Avenue West
Alexandria, MN 56308
Jail phone: 320-762-2139
The jail is the contact point for current custody, recent booking status, bail or bond amounts, and 24-hour jail payment intake.
Douglas County Sheriff's Office Administration
216 7th Avenue W
Alexandria, MN 56308
Main phone and 24-hour non-emergency dispatch: 320-762-8151
Fax: 320-763-4493
Emergency: 911
Sheriff's Office Records Division
Douglas County Sheriff's Office, Attention: Records Division
216 7th Avenue West
Alexandria, MN 56308
Office hours: 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Records phone: 320-759-6225
Records fax: 320-762-1038
Email: records@co.douglas.mn.us
Douglas County accepts records requests in person, by fax, by mail, or by email and cites Minnesota Statutes Chapter 13, the Government Data Practices Act.
Douglas County Court Administration
Contact Court Administration for hearing status after arrest or booking.
Phone: 320-304-6050
Use these pages to decide where to look next:
- For someone in Douglas County Jail, use jail inmate records and confirm urgent details with the jail at 320-762-2139.
- For booking photographs and arrest-data requests, use jail roster mugshots and the Sheriff's Office Records Division.
- For charges, hearings, and court filings after booking, use court records after a jail arrest and Court Administration.
- For facility-specific details, review Douglas County Jail or West Central Regional Juvenile Center in the footer facility list.
- For a sentenced state prisoner, use the Minnesota Department of Corrections public locator at https://coms.doc.state.mn.us/publicviewer/.
- For federal or immigration custody, use the Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate locator or the ICE Online Detainee Locator System.