This is a private reference website, not a government office. It cannot confirm whether someone is in custody, release a person, post bond, schedule a visit, or pull an official booking record. Use the official office or public-records channel for those requests.
Official Black Hawk County Jail and Records Contacts
For current county-jail custody questions, public-records requests, or jail-services routing, start with the Black Hawk County Sheriff's Office contact information published for the Waterloo office and jail.
| Office and jail | Black Hawk County Sheriff's Office / Black Hawk County Jail, 225 E. 6th St., Waterloo, IA 50703 |
|---|---|
| Main phone | 319-291-2587 |
| Dispatch / non-emergency | 319-291-2515 |
| Public records | ksmeins@bhcso.org or 319-291-5026 |
| Office hours | Monday-Friday, 8:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m., excluding holidays |
| Jail Services Division | Captain Chad Hagarty, 319-291-5028 |
Use the right record path for the situation. A person can move from the county jail to court, state supervision, a federal hold, or another agency, and each stage may use a different lookup system.
- For someone believed to be in Black Hawk County Jail, start with jail inmate records and the sheriff's current-custody roster.
- For booking-photo questions, use jail roster mugshots and the sheriff public-records contact when the roster does not show what you need.
- For charges and court events after booking, use court records after a jail arrest and Iowa Courts Online.
- For facility-specific information, use the pages for Black Hawk County Jail, Waterloo Residential Correctional Facility, and Waterloo Women's Center for Change in the footer.
- For a sentenced Iowa prisoner or DOC-supervised resident, use the Iowa Department of Corrections Offender Search rather than the county jail roster.
- For a federal inmate or immigration detainee, check the Bureau of Prisons locator or ICE Online Detainee Locator System, because those records are not controlled by the county jail.