Union County Jail Roster

The Union County jail roster shows who is currently in custody at the Union County Jail in Liberty, Indiana, and is maintained by the Union County Sheriff's Office at 106 East Union Street. You can search the Union County jail roster through the Indiana state government's county sheriff page and through the INjail Public Portal, both of which are free and open to the public without any special request or account.

Union County Jail Roster and Sheriff Contact

The Union County Sheriff's Department is located at 106 East Union Street in Liberty, Indiana 47353. The main phone number is 765-458-5194. This is both the emergency non-emergency line and the main office number. For emergencies, always call 911 first. For questions about the jail roster or someone in custody at the Union County Jail, the office number is the right place to start.

You can also reach the Union County Sheriff by email at unioncosheriff@frontier.com. Email is useful if you have a non-urgent question or need to send written documentation. Response times by email will vary, so if you need information quickly, a phone call to 765-458-5194 will likely get you a faster answer about the Union County jail roster or someone in custody.

The state government's page for Union County's sheriff is at in.gov. This page provides current contact information and may link to the jail roster or inmate search for Union County. It is maintained by the state and provides a reliable, official starting point for anyone looking for the Union County jail roster online.

Searching the Union County Jail Roster Online

Union County is one of Indiana's smaller counties, with a population of about 7,000. The jail is small as well. The county uses the state's INjail system to share its roster publicly. The INjail Public Portal is your best online option for searching the Union County jail roster. Just go to the portal, type in a name, and select Union County if you want to narrow results to that jail specifically.

INjail is run by the state and pulls data from county jails across Indiana. It is updated regularly and does not charge any fee to search. If you do not find someone on the Union County roster, it is worth checking nearby counties as well. People arrested near county borders are sometimes taken to a neighboring county's jail, depending on which agency made the arrest.

The INjail Public Portal is also useful if the county's direct search is unavailable or if you need to search across multiple counties at once. It is a good general resource for anyone looking up current inmates across Indiana, not just in Union County.

VINE Notifications and Union County Jail

Indiana VINE offers free custody status alerts. If you want to be notified when someone at the Union County Jail is released or moved, register at VINELink or call 1-866-959-VINE (8463). The service is available any time, day or night. You pick how you want to be notified: by phone, text, or email.

VINE was built for crime victims but is open to anyone. It is confidential. The inmate you are tracking does not know you registered. This is useful for families who want to plan around someone's release from the Union County Jail, or for anyone who needs to know right away when a custody status changes. Checking the jail roster manually is one option, but VINE handles the monitoring automatically.

For people who have been transferred from Union County Jail to a state facility, the Indiana Department of Correction Offender Locator is where to look. The IDOC system tracks people in state prison. If someone was convicted and sentenced to a state term, they would leave the Union County jail roster and appear in IDOC's database instead.

Indiana Open Records Law and the Union County Jail Roster

The Union County jail roster is public under IC 5-14-3, Indiana's Access to Public Records Act. This law requires government agencies to make most records available on request and, in many cases, to post them online without any formal request being needed. Jail rosters are one of the record types that Indiana treats as broadly public.

The records you can see on a public jail roster include the name of the person in custody, the charges listed at booking, and the booking date. More detailed case records, such as investigation files or pending court documents, may be handled separately and might require a formal request through the clerk's office or the court. But the basic roster data is accessible to anyone at no cost.

Indiana's jail standards rule, 210 IAC 3-1-6, also sets requirements for how county jails operate, including record-keeping. These standards apply to the Union County Jail just as they do to jails throughout the state. Consistent standards mean that searching the Union County jail roster should give you reliable and up-to-date information about who is in custody there.

Cities in Union County

Union County's county seat is Liberty, with a population of about 2,000. That is the largest community in the county. Other small towns include Brownsville and Economy. None of the communities in Union County reach the population threshold for a dedicated city page. All of them fall under the coverage of the Union County Sheriff's Office and the Union County Jail.

Nearby Counties

Union County sits in the far eastern part of Indiana along the Ohio border and borders four neighboring Indiana counties.