This website is a private reference guide, not a Meade County government office. We cannot confirm whether someone is in custody, release an inmate, post bond, schedule a visit, or retrieve an official booking record. Use the official contacts below for those tasks.
Official Contacts for Jail and Court Records
For current Meade County Jail status, booking questions, sheriff records, and court follow-up, start with the office that controls the record you need.
Meade County Sheriff's Office and Meade County Jail
223 North Meade Center
P.O. Box 487
Meade, KS 67864
- Dispatcher and jail information: 620-873-8765
- Sheriff office: 620-873-8766
- Toll-free: 800-590-8294
- Fax: 620-873-8778
- Sheriff: Douglas Ritter, also listed as Doug Ritter
- Jail administrator: Derrek Berg
- Records contact: Linnea Brainard
- Public sheriff or jail lobby hours were not published in the researched official text; call before visiting.
Meade County District Court
16th Judicial District
200 N Fowler Street
P.O. Box 623
Meade, KS 67864
- Phone: 620-873-8750
- Fax: 620-873-8759
- Hours: Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-noon and 1 p.m.-5 p.m.
- District Magistrate Judge: Keith Whitney
- Clerk of the District Court: Branda Tilley
Meade County Attorney's Office
200 N Fowler Street, 2nd Floor
P.O. Box 1119
Meade, KS 67864
- County Attorney: Clay A. Kuhns
- Secretary: Brooke Sanchez
- Phone: 620-873-8755
- Fax: 620-873-2602
- Hours: Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
Use these routes according to the record type:
- For a person believed to be in Meade County Jail, use jail inmate records, Kansas VINE, or the dispatcher and jail information number.
- For booking-photo questions, review jail roster mugshots and ask sheriff records whether a KORA request is required.
- For filed charges, hearings, case numbers, and dispositions, use court records after a jail arrest or contact the district court clerk.
- For the local detention facility, see Meade County Jail.
- For a sentenced Kansas prisoner, use KDOC KASPER rather than the county jail path.
- For federal or immigration custody, use the BOP inmate locator or ICE Online Detainee Locator System.