Ozaukee County Jail Inmate Lookup

Ozaukee County Jail Overview

Ozaukee County Jail is operated by the Ozaukee County Sheriff's Office under Sheriff Christy Knowles. The jail is at the South Spring Street justice-center complex in Port Washington, where the sheriff, jail, and District Attorney functions are closely connected. It is the main local holding facility for people arrested by sheriff's deputies, municipal police departments, and other law-enforcement agencies in Ozaukee County.

The jail holds pretrial detainees, people serving county jail sentences, Huber and work-release inmates, people held on warrants or other agency holds, and federal or U.S. Marshals prisoners when accepted under contract. Recent local reporting also described state and federal prisoner boarding at the jail. Immigration detention arrangements changed during 2025, so any current ICE housing claim should be verified with county or ICE records before relying on it.

Ozaukee County Jail Capacity and Population

Ozaukee County did not publish a current jail population dashboard in the official pages reviewed. A 2025 Ozaukee Press report, citing Sheriff's Office data, reported the jail's total capacity as 236 inmates. A separate 2020 local correctional population listing recorded 159 people at Ozaukee Co. Jail. Treat the capacity as a reported local figure unless the Sheriff's Office confirms the current number.

How to Look Up an Inmate at Ozaukee County Jail

Start with the Ozaukee County Inmate Locator for current jail custody. The portal is a public ProPhoenix search page with fields for last name, first name, gender, and birth year. Use WCCA/CCAP for court cases and warrants, Wisconsin DOC Offender Locator for sentenced state custody, and federal or immigration locators when the county roster does not fit the custody type.

1. Open the Ozaukee County Inmate Locator and search by last name first.
2. Add first name, gender, or DOB year only when the first search returns too many matches.
3. Select the matching result and confirm the Facility field shows Ozaukee County Jail when populated.
4. Review custody date, booking status, charges, bail or fine amount, court date, court branch, holds, and the inmate image link if available.

If the person is not listed, try a broader spelling search, wait and recheck after a very recent arrest, call the jail at 262-284-8446 for urgent custody questions, or use the Sheriff's Open Records Unit for booking records not shown online.

Ozaukee County Jail Address and Contact

Use the jail phone for custody and facility questions, the sheriff main number for general Sheriff's Office business, and the records number for Sheriff's Office record-release questions. Open records requests can be made in person during weekday business hours, by mail, by fax, or by email attachment using the county form.

Visiting Someone at Ozaukee County Jail

Ozaukee County Jail visitation is scheduled through IC Solutions. The county says visits must be scheduled at least 16 hours in advance and up to two weeks ahead. Social visits are recorded and monitored. Visitors must register with IC Solutions, and the county directs account or scheduling problems to IC Solutions Video Support at 1-888-646-9437 instead of the jail.

Mail, Phone, and Money at Ozaukee County Jail

The county pages reviewed did not publish a complete mail-format page or an online deposit vendor for jail commissary funds. Use the jail mailing address, include the inmate's full legal name and booking or SPN number if known, and verify current rules before sending books, photos, packages, or money. The county's Jail Commissary Fund material says inmate personal accounts are used to buy food and goods from commissary.

Booking, Huber, and Intake at Ozaukee County Jail

New arrestees are processed into the jail through booking, identification, property inventory, fingerprints, booking photos, safety or medical screening, and classification. The public roster confirms that the jail tracks booking number, SPN, custody date, booking status, physical descriptors, facility or cell location, court date, charges, bail or fine amounts, and holds when populated.

Huber reporting is a separate court-ordered path. Sentenced people ordered to report must go to the Ozaukee County Jail lobby at the date and time ordered by the court. The Huber packet says employed reporting inmates should bring a $200 initial board deposit, while people using Huber only for child, family, elder care, or school should bring $100. Prescription medications must be in blister packs.

Programs, Safety, and Records at Ozaukee County Jail

The Sheriff's Office directory lists jail literacy and jail chaplaincy as jail functions. Handbook and Huber material also point to work-search help for Huber inmates, including employment-agency interviews for people who begin a sentence without a job. Wisconsin DOC Office of Detention Facilities standards, including Wis. Admin. Code DOC 350 and DOC 350.20, govern jail operations and well-being check policies.

The jail's PREA page states a zero-tolerance policy for sexual harassment, sexual abuse, and misconduct. Reports can be made to jail staff, by voicemail at 262-284-8304, or by writing Human Services, Attention Heather Carlson, 121 West Main St., Port Washington, WI 53074. The Sheriff's Open Records Unit is the fallback for booking files, digital media, and booking photos not available through the roster.

Records requests for Ozaukee County Jail material should be specific. A request for a booking record, booking photo, jail incident report, or digital media should include the person's full name, date of birth if known, booking date or approximate arrest date, case or incident number if known, and requester contact information. The county says fees are due when records are received, prepayment may be required when fees exceed $5, ordinary Sheriff's Office record responses may take up to 10 days, and digital media may take at least 14 days to reproduce.

Federal custody at the Ozaukee County Jail needs a separate check. The U.S. Marshals Service agreement in the research says prisoners remanded by a U.S. Marshal may be released only to a U.S. Marshal or an authorized agent. A federal pretrial defendant may be physically housed in Port Washington while the federal court or USMS controls the custody decision. Sentenced federal prisoners are searched through the BOP locator, not the county roster, and BOP public search does not publish mugshots.