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Morton County Contacts

This is a private reference site, not a government office. We cannot confirm custody, release anyone, post bond, or retrieve an official booking record. Contact the office that holds the record.

Official Record Contacts

Choose the office based on the record or status being checked. Offices in the same physical complex still control separate records.

Morton County Sheriff / Law Enforcement Center
1025 Richards Street
Elkhart, KS 67950
Phone: 620-697-4313
Fax: 620-697-2832
Email: mtcosheriff@elkhart.com
Published records hours: none located
Published release-record or photo fee: none located; ask for an estimate

The Sheriff is the local source for a booking or release entry, release versus transfer confirmation, and a request for an existing booking photograph.

Morton County District Court
1025 Morton Street
Elkhart, KS 67950
Clerk phone: 620-697-2563
Document hours and fees: confirm directly

The court holds district-case dockets, journal entries, bond orders, sentencing records, probation orders, and dismissals. Elkhart municipal ordinance cases may require the municipal court route.

Cimarron Basin Community Corrections
415 N. Washington, Suite 120
Liberal, KS 67901
Phone: 620-626-3284
Fax: 620-626-3279
Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

This regional office serves Morton, Grant, Haskell, Seward, Stanton, and Stevens Counties for qualifying community-corrections cases.

Kansas Department of Corrections / KASPER
KASPER search
Record accuracy email: kdoc_pub@ks.gov
Status update schedule: each working day, not continuously

KASPER covers KDOC-associated custody and supervision. It is not a complete record of all Morton County jail bookings.

Choose the Right Route

These destinations separate local release records from state, notification, and federal systems.

  • For one released person or a local release document, start with the full Morton County search and records path.
  • For parole, postrelease, or probation, use Post-Release Supervision.
  • For recent local releases, use 24-Hour Releases, which explains the county’s lack of a published feed and the direct fallback.
  • For a state sentence date, use Release Date Lookup. For county-jail alerts, use VINE Inmate Check.
  • For facility-specific custody questions, contact the Morton County Law Enforcement Center listed above.
  • For a sentenced Kansas prisoner or KDOC supervisee, use KASPER and the appropriate KDOC field office.
  • For federal prison records, use the BOP Inmate Locator or BOP FOIA. For immigration detention, use the official ICE locator and detention contacts.