This is a private reference site, not the Ozark County Sheriff's Office, the jail, the prosecutor, or the court. It cannot confirm whether someone is in custody, release a detainee, post bond, schedule visitation, or retrieve an official booking record. Use the appropriate government office for those actions.
Official Offices for Custody and Records
Ozark County Sheriff's Office / Ozark County Jail
Sheriff Cass / Cassidy Martin
1818 County Road 806
Gainesville, MO 65655
Older mailing address: HC 1 Box 8-1, Gainesville, MO 65655-9602
Phone: 417-679-4633
ICE detainee information: 417-679-4633, option 2
Fax: 417-679-3201
Ozark County Prosecuting Attorney
PO Box 67
Gainesville, MO 65655
Phone: 417-679-4648 or 417-679-4649
Ozark County Circuit Clerk / Recorder
Phone: 417-679-4232
Courthouse hours: 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday
For written public-record requests, identify the person, arrest date, incident date, case number, or booking date as clearly as possible. Missouri Sunshine Law allows requests to be directed to the records custodian, and RSMo 610.023 gives public bodies a response deadline unless additional time is justified.
- For a current local detainee, start with jail inmate records and then call the Ozark County Sheriff's Office or jail if no official roster result is available.
- For booking photos, use jail roster mugshots guidance and request the releasable booking record from the sheriff when a photo is not posted online.
- For filed charges and docket events, check court records after a jail arrest and contact the circuit clerk for public case access questions.
- For facility-specific details, use the Ozark County Jail / Ozark County Law Enforcement Center page linked in the footer.
- For a sentenced Missouri prisoner, use the Missouri Department of Corrections offender search rather than the county jail.
- For a federal prisoner or immigration detainee, use the BOP inmate locator or ICE Online Detainee Locator System, then confirm with the holding agency when needed.