Yellow Medicine County Jail Bookings

Yellow Medicine County recent bookings are maintained by the Sheriff's Office in Granite Falls and are available to the public as required by Minnesota's Government Data Practices Act. The county is in southwestern Minnesota along the South Dakota border. The jail roster shows who is currently in custody, the charges entered at intake, when each person was booked, and their current status. This page explains how to access those records, what they include, how the state's retention rules apply, and what legal options exist for addressing a booking record.

Yellow Medicine County Booking Roster

The Yellow Medicine County Sheriff's Office is at 415 9th Avenue in Granite Falls. The county jail sits at this location and handles all arrest intake for the county. Yellow Medicine County is in the southwestern part of Minnesota, bordered by Lac qui Parle, Chippewa, Renville, Redwood, Lyon, and Lincoln counties. The Sheriff's Office provides county law enforcement and runs all booking operations at the facility.

Booking records in Yellow Medicine County are public government data under Minnesota Statute 13.82. This statute is part of the Government Data Practices Act and requires law enforcement agencies to make arrest and intake data available. This is not discretionary. The Wilkin County Sheriff publishes this information through the county website at co.yellow-medicine.mn.us. The roster is open to search at no cost and without any account.

Each booking entry in the Yellow Medicine County roster shows: the full name of the person taken into custody, the date and time of intake, the charges or offenses entered at the time of arrest, the name of the arresting agency, and current custody status. Bail or bond information appears once it is set by the court. Personal data not defined as public under section 13.82, such as home addresses, is not part of the public display.

Being in the booking roster means a person was arrested and processed. It is not a court ruling or a conviction. Charges at booking can change once a prosecutor reviews the file.

What Yellow Medicine County Booking Records Show

The booking record reflects what was entered into the system at the time the person was brought in. The charges listed at booking are those the arresting officer recorded at intake. After that, the prosecutor decides what to file in court, and the formal charges may be the same as or different from what appears in the booking record. What you see in the roster is an intake snapshot, not a final legal determination.

Standard public booking records in Yellow Medicine County include: full name, booking date and time, charge or offense descriptions from intake, the arresting agency, bond or bail status once it is entered, and current custody or release status. Some records also show a scheduled court date. Personal data fields that fall outside the public classification under Minnesota law are excluded from the public roster view. The same rules apply to booking records in every Minnesota county under state data practices law.

Once a case is filed in court, you can track it through the Minnesota Courts case search at mncourts.gov. That system shows charges as filed by the prosecutor, case numbers, hearing dates, attorney assignments, and case outcomes. Jail and court records come from separate systems updated by different agencies. They may not always line up exactly, especially in the early stages of a case.

Juvenile arrests are handled under different privacy rules in Minnesota. Records involving minors are generally not part of the public booking roster.

How to Access Yellow Medicine County Bookings

Go to the Yellow Medicine County website at co.yellow-medicine.mn.us and navigate to the Sheriff section to find the current jail roster. If you are looking for a specific person, search by name. If you want to browse recent activity in the county, view the full roster list. The roster is the county's official public source for current booking data.

For records beyond what the county roster shows, the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension criminal history search is available online. That system requires a name and date of birth and charges a fee per search. It is run by the Department of Public Safety and covers law enforcement records from agencies across the state.

Victim custody notifications in Yellow Medicine County are available through VINELink. This free statewide service registers your contact information and sends alerts by phone, text, or email when a person's custody status changes at any Minnesota county jail. It covers Yellow Medicine County and all other counties in the state.

If someone has been moved from the county jail to a state correctional facility, the Minnesota Department of Corrections offender search is the right tool. It tracks people in state custody and is separate from the county jail system.

Yellow Medicine County Sheriff's Office

The Yellow Medicine County Sheriff's Office handles all jail operations, booking, and inmate management in Granite Falls. Questions about a specific person in custody or about how the jail works can be directed to the office by phone. The county website has current contact information for the Sheriff and other county departments.

Retention, Booking Fees, and Expungement

Yellow Medicine County booking records are government records and must be kept under the retention schedule set by Minnesota Statute 138.17. This law controls how long agencies hold records before disposal is permitted. Jail and intake files are included. The online roster may only show recent activity, but the full records stay in the system for the periods required by the state retention schedule. That is generally longer than what the public roster displays.

A booking fee is collected at the Yellow Medicine County jail when someone is processed in. Minnesota Statute 641.12 gives county jails the authority to collect this intake fee as part of standard booking. The fee is charged when the person is processed and is separate from bail and any fines or court costs that may be ordered later. It applies at the time of booking regardless of how the case resolves.

If you want to seal a booking or arrest record in Minnesota, the expungement process under Statute 609A is the path. A successful expungement petition results in a court order restricting access to the record. The order can cover both the court record and in some cases the law enforcement record. Not every arrest qualifies. Whether a Yellow Medicine County booking is eligible depends on the type of charge, how the case ended, and the time that has passed since the arrest. LawHelpMN has free guides on how expungement works and can connect you with legal aid organizations in Minnesota that help with this process at low or no cost.

Private websites that copied the booking record before the expungement order was issued are not required under state law to remove it from their platforms.

The Minnesota State Records site aggregates public records from county and state sources across Minnesota, offering a way to search for booking and arrest information beyond a single county's roster.

For Yellow Medicine County searches, the county roster is the most direct source, but state-level aggregators can help when you want to pull data from multiple jurisdictions at once or fill in gaps in local records.

Nearby Counties

Yellow Medicine County is in southwestern Minnesota. Each neighboring county operates its own Sheriff's Office and booking records system.