Search Salt Lake County Released Inmates
Salt Lake County runs the largest jail in Utah. The Salt Lake County Sheriff's Office Corrections Bureau holds more than 2,000 people on any given day. To find released inmates, you can use the online Find a Prisoner tool, the Jail In/Out Docket, or the GRAMA request portal. This page walks you through each tool. It lists the Metro Jail address, phone numbers, public counter hours, and the state law that opens these records to the public in the greater Salt Lake area.
Salt Lake County Quick Facts
Salt Lake County Metro Jail
The Salt Lake County Sheriff's Office runs the Metro Jail at 3415 South 900 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84119. The main jail phone is (385) 468-8400. The admin headquarters is next door at 3365 South 900 West, and the admin line is (385) 468-9898. The public counter is open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. You can visit the Corrections Bureau page at saltlakecounty.gov/sheriff/corrections for the full range of jail services.
The Metro Jail is the largest lockup in the state. It houses men and women before trial and after sentencing for short terms. Longer sentences are served with the Utah Department of Corrections. The jail holds people from across the valley, including Salt Lake City, West Valley City, West Jordan, Sandy, and many other cities.
Staff book new arrests day and night. Each booking creates a file with the person's name, date of birth, charges, bond amount, and court dates. When a person is let go, the release date and reason go in the file too. Most of this info is public.
Find a Prisoner Online
The Sheriff runs a free online tool called Find a Prisoner. You can reach it at saltlakecounty.gov/sheriff/corrections/find. Search by first and last name, by booking number, or by permanent number. The tool shows custody status, housing unit, upcoming court dates, and a plain-terms summary of charges. It is the fastest way to see if someone was let out in the past day.
Here is the official Salt Lake County inmate lookup tool.
The Find a Prisoner tool pulls real-time data from the Salt Lake County Metro Jail and shows current custody or recent release.
Records may leave out medical or safety notes. Housing details can be held back. Expunged records are not shown. Juvenile records stay out of the public view. These rules come from state law. The Corrections Bureau cites Utah Code 63A-19 for the redactions.
Jail Dockets and Rosters
For a broader view, use the Jail Dockets page at saltlakecounty.gov/sheriff/corrections/rosters. The page hosts the Jail In/Out Docket and the Current Roster. The In/Out Docket is a daily log of bookings and releases. The Current Roster shows everyone in the jail right now. Both follow privacy rules under Utah Code 63A-19-101, 63A-19-102, and 63A-19-401(3)(c), which remove some personal fields from the public copy.
The Salt Lake County jail rosters page is shown below.
Click into the rosters page to download the latest In/Out Docket or to pull the Current Roster for Salt Lake County.
Note: The In/Out Docket is the single best source for a list of recent releases from Salt Lake County Metro Jail.
GRAMA Records Request
For records that are not on the online tools, file a GRAMA request. Salt Lake County runs an online portal at saltlakecountyut.nextrequest.com. You can upload papers, track your request by email, and get digital copies. The county replies within 14 calendar days in most cases. The request portal is free to use. You can ask for booking reports, incident reports, arrest records, jail records, and court filings.
Below is the Salt Lake County GRAMA request portal.
Use the portal to submit a written request for any Salt Lake County jail or Sheriff record that is not already posted online.
The Records Bureau phone is (385) 468-9300. The office is at 3365 South 900 West in South Salt Lake. It is open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The law that gives you the right to ask is Utah Code § 63G-2, known as the Government Records Access and Management Act.
Salt Lake County Courts and Released Inmates
The Third District Court handles felony and Class A misdemeanor cases for Salt Lake County. The main address is 450 South State Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84114. The phone is (801) 238-7330. Lower cases like Class B and C misdemeanors, traffic, and small claims go to the Salt Lake County Justice Court at 2001 South State Street. Both courts post case info on the state site at utcourts.gov.
There is also a county-run portal at saltlakecountycourt.us/inmate-search that ties court data to jail data. This portal can be useful when you want the full court picture for a released inmate.
Use the Salt Lake County court inmate search to match a booking to the right case file and judge.
Utah Title 77 Chapter 41 sets the state sex offender and kidnap offender registry. People let out on those charges must check in with the Sheriff. Utah Title 64 sets the rules for the Utah Department of Corrections, which runs parole and state prison for cases that move past the county level. The statewide DOC offender search sits at corrections.utah.gov. The Utah Bureau of Criminal Identification, bci.utah.gov, holds longer-term criminal history files for the state.
Release Alerts with VINE
VINELink is a free tool that sends alerts when a person's custody status changes. Sign up at vinelink.com or call 1-877-884-8463. VINE covers most Utah jails including the Salt Lake County Metro Jail. Alerts come by text, call, or email. You can track a single person or a set of people. VINE is the best way to know the moment someone walks out of the Salt Lake County Metro Jail.
For low income legal help after a release, Utah Legal Services at utahlegalservices.org covers civil cases in Salt Lake County.
Cities in Salt Lake County
Salt Lake County has many cities and towns. All felony jail bookings flow into the Metro Jail run by the Sheriff. Each city has its own police who bring people to the jail. Below are the larger cities with their own pages on this site.
Nearby Counties
Salt Lake County borders several other Utah counties. If the person you seek was booked outside the county line, check the right Sheriff next door.