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Official Erath County Contacts

The Sheriff and jail use slightly different official street descriptions for the same public-safety campus. Contact the office that owns the type of record or custody question at issue. The Sheriff’s Office handles the county public-information path, while the jail is the appropriate local contact for an immediate custody question.

The public pages reviewed for this site do not give records-office hours. The jail page lists visitor scheduling from 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., but those are visitation scheduling hours, not a promise of records availability.

• For current county custody, begin with the official Tyler PublicAccess roster. If a result is absent or a current-custody answer is needed, contact the jail rather than treating a missing web result as proof that no booking occurred.
• For a booking record or photograph, use the Sheriff’s Open Records Request page or the NextRequest portal. The county sends an estimate when the anticipated cost exceeds $40, requires half as prepayment, and accepts the exact amount by money order or cashier’s check, not cash.
• For an arrest report created by a city officer, contact the arresting city police department. Stephenville or Dublin Police may hold the arrest narrative even when the Erath County Jail holds the booking record.
• For a later case result, hearing, or disposition, use the Erath County court portal. A court entry can clarify a case, but it does not by itself confirm present custody or a live warrant.
• For a person in Texas state custody, use the TDCJ offender search. It is separate from an Erath County booking search and does not stand in for the county roster.
• For federal or immigration custody, use the relevant official federal locator rather than the county jail. A federal or ICE record concerns a different custody system.