This is a private reference site, not a government office. We cannot confirm custody status or release, release someone, post bond, or pull official booking records. Please use the official routes below for a current answer or an official copy.
Yellow Medicine County official contacts
For a booking, sheriff, or county data question, begin with the office that owns the record. The sheriff’s office is the appropriate starting point for county booking records and for routing a Minnesota Government Data Practices request.
Yellow Medicine County Sheriff’s Office
Sheriff Bill Flaten
415 9th Avenue, Suite 103
Granite Falls, MN 56241
Phone: 320-564-2130
Office hours: 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Monday through Friday; observed holidays closed
Administrative Assistant Ali Mensink: 320-564-5902
Yellow Medicine County Jail
960 Fourth Street
Granite Falls, MN 56241
Jail Administrator Kathy Busack: 320-313-3049
Inmate voicemail: 320-313-2515
Published visiting windows are daily from 8:00 to 10:30 a.m., noon to 5:30 p.m., and 7:00 to 10:00 p.m.
Choose the record path that fits the question
- Current county custody: check the official Yellow Medicine County In Custody page. It is a live custody view, not a historical arrest archive.
- Booking records or a booking photograph: review the home-page records guide, then ask the sheriff to route a request using the county’s data-request guide. Inspection is free; copies can carry actual or copy costs, and no fixed turnaround is published.
- Active county warrants: check the official Active Warrant Listing and the site’s Most Wanted Fugitives guide. A warrant should be addressed with the responsible court, an attorney, or law enforcement.
- Court cases and dispositions: search Minnesota Court Records Online. A booking entry does not state the final case outcome.
- State prison custody or records: use the Minnesota Department of Corrections and its official locator or records-request channels.
The jail’s published $25 booking fee and $25-per-day pay-to-stay charge are detention charges. They are not public-records copy fees and are not payments to remove a booking photo.