This is a private reference site, not a government office. We cannot confirm whether someone is in custody, release anyone, post bond, pull an official booking record, change a court date, or contact jail staff for you. Use the official Morton County and Kansas contacts below for those tasks.
Where to Check First
Morton County did not have an official online jail roster, inmate search portal, recent bookings gallery, mugshot gallery, or sheriff app in the research reviewed for this project. For a current county-jail custody question, start with the Morton County Law Enforcement Center / Morton County Jail.
Morton County Law Enforcement Center / Morton County Jail
1025 Richards Street
Elkhart, KS 67950
Mailing: P.O. Box 1115, Elkhart, KS 67950
Sheriff: Thad Earls
Sheriff / jail phone: 620-697-4313
Elkhart Police: 620-697-2151
Fax: 620-697-2832
Emergency: 911
Official pages: Morton County Sheriff and Sheriff and Law Enforcement Center directory
Court records and filed charges are separate from jail custody. The Morton County District Court is at 1025 Morton Street, Elkhart, KS 67950, with mailing address P.O. Box 825. The court phone is 620-697-2563 and the fax is 620-697-4289. Published court hours are Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to noon and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. For online court records, use Kansas CaseSearch and the Kansas Courts district court records page.
Choose the source that matches the question you have.
- For someone who may be in the county jail, use jail inmate records and contact the Law Enforcement Center directly.
- For booking photos, use jail roster mugshots and ask the sheriff's office how Kansas Open Records Act requests are handled.
- For charges filed after an arrest, use court records after a jail arrest and check with Morton County District Court.
- For the local facility page, use the Morton County Law Enforcement Center / Morton County Jail.
- For a sentenced Kansas prisoner, use KDOC KASPER rather than the county jail.
- For federal or immigration custody, use the Bureau of Prisons inmate locator or ICE Online Detainee Locator System.