This website is a private reference guide, not a government office. It cannot confirm whether someone is in custody, release a person, post bond, approve visitation, or obtain an official booking record. Use the official office contacts below for those requests.
Official Offices to Contact
For a person listed on the Pocahontas County Jail roster, start with the jail office or sheriff's office. Court charges and filed case documents are handled separately by the Iowa courts, and prosecution questions route to the Pocahontas County Attorney.
Pocahontas County Jail
22 SE Court Street
Pocahontas, IA 50574
Phone: 712-335-5071
Fax: 712-335-5072
Use this line for current jail roster, custody, visitation, mail, money, and booking-record routing questions.
Pocahontas County Sheriff Department
22 SE Court Street
Pocahontas, IA 50574
Phone: 712-335-3308
Fax: 712-335-4300
Sheriff Steven E. Nelson's office handles the jail, non-emergency dispatch routing, patrol, warrants, civil process, and local law-enforcement records.
Sheriff Civil Division
22 SE Court Street
Pocahontas, IA 50574
Phone: 712-335-5070
Fax: 712-335-4300
Contact this division for sheriff-handled civil and criminal court orders, including warrant process questions.
Pocahontas County Clerk of Court
99 Court Square
Pocahontas, IA 50574
Phone: 712-335-4208
Fax: 712-335-5045
Email: countyclerk.pocahontas@iowacourts.gov
Use the clerk and Iowa Courts Online for filed criminal cases, docket records, case numbers, court dates, and document access.
Pocahontas County Attorney
23 3rd Ave NE
Pocahontas, IA 50574
Phone: 712-335-4215
Fax: 712-335-4228
Hours: Monday-Friday, 8:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m. County Attorney Dan Feistner's office prosecutes state criminal cases in Pocahontas County.
For emergencies, call 911. For non-emergency law-enforcement routing, the Pocahontas County Communications Center uses 712-335-3308 and is staffed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
- For someone in the county jail, use jail inmate records and then call the jail if the PDF is unclear or stale.
- For booking photos, read jail roster mugshots; the official roster inspected did not display photos.
- For formal charges after arrest, use court records after a jail arrest and Iowa Courts Online.
- For the local detention facility page, see Pocahontas County Jail.
- For a sentenced state prisoner, use the Iowa Department of Corrections Offender Search at https://doc-search.iowa.gov/Offender/Search.
- For federal or immigration custody, use the BOP Inmate Locator or ICE Online Detainee Locator System rather than the county roster.