This is a private reference site, not a Howard County government office. We cannot confirm whether someone is in custody, release an inmate, post bond, schedule a visit, or retrieve official booking records. Use the official office that holds the record for those actions.
Official Howard County Contacts
For current custody, jail booking questions, or a Sunshine Law request for Howard County jail records, start with the Howard County Sheriff's Office and jail. No separate records-unit phone, detention desk number, email address, or public-record request form was located on the sheriff site, so the main sheriff contact is the safest official route.
Howard County Sheriff's Office / Howard County Jail
100 N. Mulberry St.
Fayette, MO 65248
Phone: 660-248-2477
Jail information line: 660-248-2477
Fax: 660-248-1444
Sheriff: Jeff Oswald
County office hours: 8:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Monday-Friday, closed legal holidays, per the Missouri Association of Counties. The jail is a custody operation, so call before visiting to confirm lobby, records, visitation, or bond-counter availability.
Use the path below that matches the question you are trying to answer.
- For someone held in the county jail, use the official sheriff inmate lookup described on the jail inmate records page, then call the jail if the roster does not load or the arrest is very recent.
- For a booking photograph, start with the roster and then review the request steps on the jail roster mugshots page.
- For charges filed after an arrest, use Missouri Case.net and the local court workflow described on the court records after a jail arrest page.
- For facility-specific details, use the Howard County Jail page listed in the footer facilities column.
- For a person sentenced to state custody, use the Missouri Department of Corrections Offender Search rather than the county jail roster.
- For federal or immigration custody, use the Federal Bureau of Prisons locator, ICE Online Detainee Locator, or the court handling the federal case.