This is a private reference site, not the Mobile County Sheriff's Office, Metro Jail, a court clerk, or a government records desk. We cannot confirm whether someone is in custody, release an inmate, post bond, schedule a visit, provide medical information, or pull an official booking record. Use the official contacts below for those tasks.
Official Places to Start
For Mobile County jail and court questions, contact the office that controls the record or service you need.
- Mobile County Sheriff's Office: 510 South Royal Street, Mobile, AL 36603; 251-574-2423.
- Mobile County Metro Jail visitor-registration lobby: 450 St. Emanuel Street, Mobile, AL 36603. MCSO lists lobby registration for visitors without computer access Monday-Friday, 8:00-11:00 a.m. or 2:00-5:30 p.m. Central time.
- Automated inmate information for a person in Metro Jail: 251-574-6412.
- Medical information line: 251-574-3368. MCSO instructs callers to leave the inmate's name and contact information.
- Mobile County Circuit Court, Government Plaza, 205 Government Street, Suite 913, Mobile, AL 36644-2913; 251-574-8806.
- Mobile County District Attorney Keith Blackwood: P.O. Box 2841; contact@mobileda.org; 251-574-8400.
Use these page paths when you are deciding which record system fits your question.
- For someone held at Mobile County Metro Jail, start with jail inmate records.
- For booking-photo availability and limits, read jail roster mugshots.
- For charges and court records after an arrest, use court records after a jail arrest.
- For facility-specific address and custody details, use the detention facility pages in the footer.
- For a sentenced Alabama prisoner, use the Alabama Department of Corrections inmate search.
- For federal prison custody or immigration detention, use the BOP inmate locator or ICE Online Detainee Locator System.