Find Recent Bookings in Ramsey County

Ramsey County recent bookings are published online through the Sheriff's Office detention services division and through the county's open data portal. The booking roster updates every 30 minutes and shows who is currently held at the Ramsey County Adult Detention Center in St. Paul. Each record includes booking dates, arresting charges, formal charges if prosecutors have filed them, and upcoming court dates. Searching Ramsey County booking records costs nothing and requires no login. If you need to find information about a recent arrest in St. Paul or anywhere else in Ramsey County, the online roster is the place to start.

Ramsey County Booking Reports and Inmate Roster

The Ramsey County Adult Detention Center sits at 425 Grove Street in St. Paul. It is a 500-bed pre-trial facility, which means everyone held there is waiting for something to happen next in their case. They have not been sentenced. They are either awaiting arraignment, bail hearings, trial, or some other court proceeding. That is a key point when reading Ramsey County booking records. The person's presence in the roster means they were arrested and booked. It does not say anything about guilt or the final outcome of their case.

The booking roster on the Ramsey County inmates and booking reports page refreshes every 30 minutes. That is more frequent than many other Minnesota counties. It means the data you see is usually no more than half an hour old. Records available there show names, booking dates, the charges listed at the time of arrest, formal charges if prosecutors have since filed a complaint, court case numbers, court dates, and where the court proceeding is scheduled to take place.

Data stays in the historical view for up to 90 days. People released within the past five days still appear in the roster. That window helps families and others confirm someone has been released and see when it happened. After five days post-release, the record drops out of the active view but remains available through longer-term data requests.

Note: Ramsey County's booking roster is governed by the Minnesota Government Data Practices Act under Chapter 13, which classifies this type of law enforcement data as public.

Ramsey County Open Data Portal for Booking Records

Beyond the standard roster page, Ramsey County publishes booking data through its open data portal. This is a separate tool from the live roster and gives a more structured look at the data. The portal is useful if you want to search for older records, look at booking trends, or pull specific fields in a more organized way. It draws from the same underlying dataset the jail uses internally.

Under Minnesota Statute 13.82, arrest and booking records are classified as public government data. The Ramsey County Sheriff meets that requirement by publishing the roster online and keeping the open data portal current. Section 13.03 of the Government Data Practices Act sets the rules for how agencies must respond to records requests, which means even data not visible in the online portal can be requested through a formal process. If you cannot find what you need in the roster or the open data tool, you can submit a data request directly to the Sheriff's Office.

The open data portal also makes it easy to cross-reference bookings against court records. When a case number appears in the booking data, you can take that number to Minnesota Courts to look up case status, hearing dates, and judicial filings.

The Ramsey County booking reports page lists current inmates and recently released individuals, with records updated every 30 minutes throughout the day.

Sheriff Bob Fletcher's office oversees all detention services and maintains the public booking data through the county's online systems and open data infrastructure.

What Ramsey County Booking Records Contain

Ramsey County pulls booking data from three different sources. Arrest data comes from the arresting agency, whether that is the St. Paul Police, the Ramsey County Sheriff, or another law enforcement agency that brought someone into the facility. Formal charge information comes from prosecutors after they review the case and file a complaint. Judicial information flows in from the state court system. That means a single booking record in Ramsey County can have data updated by three different agencies as the case moves forward.

What you see in the roster includes the person's full name, their booking date, the charges at the time of arrest, formal charges if they have been filed, the court case number, scheduled court dates, and the location where court will be held. Under Minnesota Statute 641.08, the Sheriff is required to keep jail records, which provides the legal basis for how these records are created and maintained in the first place.

Some data is not public. Information about juveniles, sealed proceedings, or cases where a court has restricted access will not appear. The public roster shows adult detainees only. Private details like home addresses and contact information for family members are not part of the public record.

The Ramsey County residents page provides a broader look at county services and how to access public records, including links to detention services and law enforcement resources.

County residents can find links to the jail, Sheriff's Office, and public record tools through the main county website, which is organized by department and service type.

Ramsey County Sheriff's Office and Detention Services

The Ramsey County Sheriff's Office is led by Sheriff Bob Fletcher. The office handles law enforcement for unincorporated parts of the county and runs the Adult Detention Center. Detention services is its own division within the Sheriff's Office and manages everything from intake and booking to housing and release. Questions about a specific inmate or a recent booking can go to the jail line directly.

The Detention Services division page explains how the facility operates, what services are available to people in custody, and how the booking process works from intake to court appearance.

Other Ways to Find Ramsey County Arrest Information

The jail roster and open data portal cover current and recent bookings, but they are not the only tools available. If you need records from further back or want to check someone's broader criminal history, the Minnesota BCA criminal history search goes deeper. It costs $8 per search and pulls statewide arrest and conviction data. You need both a name and date of birth to run the search. The BCA is part of the Department of Public Safety.

Families of victims can use VINELink to set up custody notifications. When someone's status at the Ramsey County jail changes, the registered contact gets an alert. This is useful if you are monitoring a situation and need to know about a release before it happens. Registration is free and available around the clock.

The Minnesota Predatory Offender Registry is a separate resource maintained by the Department of Corrections. It shows registered offenders by address or name and is distinct from the booking roster. The DOC offender locator can tell you if someone is currently in a state prison rather than a county jail. If a case resulted in a sentence longer than one year, the person would be in a state facility, not the Ramsey County detention center.

Record retention for Ramsey County booking files follows the schedule set under Minnesota Statute 138.17. The county keeps those records based on the retention categories assigned to law enforcement data, which generally run longer than the 90-day public view window. If an arrest record was expunged under Minnesota Statute 609A, access is restricted, and it will no longer appear in standard searches. LawHelpMN and Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid (612-334-5970) can help with questions about expungement eligibility and process.

The Ramsey County leadership page lists department heads including the Sheriff, with links to each office and their public-facing resources.

Understanding which office handles what helps when you are trying to find specific records, whether that is a jail booking, a court filing, or a formal data request to a county department.

Cities in Ramsey County

Ramsey County is the smallest county by area in Minnesota but one of the most densely populated. All booking records for arrests made within the county flow through the Adult Detention Center roster.

Nearby Counties

Ramsey County borders several other metro counties. Each maintains its own jail and booking records system. If you are unsure which county made an arrest, check the arresting agency listed in the Ramsey roster or search the neighboring county's system.