Burt County Jail Contact
The first official contact for Burt County Jail custody is the Burt County Sheriff's Office. The county page identifies the sheriff's office as the local agency that manages the county jail, operates the communications center, and maintains a 24-hour emergency call center. Because the county did not publish a searchable jail roster, public booking report, capacity number, visitation calendar, mail rule page, commissary vendor, or mugshot gallery in the reviewed pages, direct sheriff contact is the lead channel for current local custody questions.
Burt County Sheriff's Office
111 North 13th Street, Suite 1
Tekamah, NE 68061
(402) 374-2900
Fax: (402) 374-2901
Email: sheriff@burtcountyne.gov
Public counter hours: 8:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Monday-Friday, open through lunch, closed weekends and holidays.
The sheriff's office is listed in Suite 1 in the courthouse basement. For inmate status, ask whether the person is held locally, released, bonded, waiting for court, or housed at Washington County Jail under regional arrangements. For non-custody public counter services, the sheriff page also lists title inspections and fingerprinting during weekday business hours, with fingerprints by appointment and identification required. Those service details should not be treated as inmate visit rules.
Burt County Jail Overview
Burt County Jail is best understood as a sheriff-run local jail function rather than a large public roster system. The official county source says the sheriff manages the county jail, but it does not break out a separate facility handbook or publish housing units, a daily booking log, or a public visitor entrance guide. The population can include local arrestees, pretrial detainees, sentenced misdemeanants, warrant arrests, people waiting for court, and temporary holds.
That local role has to be read with the regional evidence in the research. Washington County Sheriff's Corrections page states that its jail houses surrounding counties, including Burt County, and an official Washington County roster PDF inspected in the research showed Burt County rows. A missing Burt County web roster is not the end of the search. It means the record path starts with the sheriff and then moves to Washington County when regional housing is possible.
The official sheriff page screenshot confirms the local jail responsibility and contact route.
This source supports the sheriff-first approach while also showing that state inmate search links are separate from the local jail record path.
Search Burt County Jail Custody
The Burt County Jail inmate lookup process uses a fallback chain because the county did not publish a county-hosted online roster in the reviewed official pages. For current same-day local custody, call the sheriff first. If the person is not confirmed locally, check the regional jail list at Washington County. If the person has already been sentenced to a Nebraska prison term, use the state corrections locator. Court charges, bond settings, and filed case events belong in the Nebraska court system, not in the jail list alone.
- Call the Burt County Sheriff's Office and ask whether the person is held, released, bonded, transported to court, or housed elsewhere.
- Check the Washington County Jail List because Washington County documents Burt County as one of the surrounding counties it houses.
- Use the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services inmate search only for sentenced state prisoners.
- Search Nebraska JUSTICE for court filings after an arrest when charges, court dates, or case status matter.
- Use the BOP inmate locator or ICE detainee locator only for federal prison, federal hold, or immigration custody questions.
For a broader record workflow, the county roster route is also covered on the Burt County jail inmate records page. The key distinction is simple: local and regional jail custody is not the same as NDCS prison custody, and neither one is the same as federal or immigration custody.
Burt County Jail Population
The official Burt County pages reviewed did not publish current jail capacity, a current average daily population, annual booking totals, or a monthly demographic table. That absence should be stated plainly. The Vera county file gives historical county-level measures and marks Burt County as a regional-jail county in recent rows, but the recent live county jail count is blank. Those blanks should not be converted into a claim that no one is held.
| Measure | Figure | Source / Year |
|---|---|---|
| Current local jail capacity | Not published in official county source reviewed | Burt County Sheriff's Office page |
| Current local jail ADP | Not published; recent Vera rows blank | Vera county CSV, 2024 through 2020 |
| Historical jail population measure | 2.31, with rated capacity 3.92 | Vera county CSV, 2019 |
| Regional roster snapshot involving Burt detainees | Washington County PDF listed 64 total inmates | Washington County roster PDF, April 24, 2026 |
Use those figures with care. Vera's historical measures are dataset estimates, not a live roster. The Washington County PDF is a dated regional snapshot that included Burt County rows, not Burt County's own daily population report.
Burt County Jail Visits
Burt County did not publish local jail visitation rules, a visit calendar, video provider, approval form, visitor entrance map, dress code, or mail and money instructions in the official pages reviewed. Do not assume a vendor, fee, or schedule. For a person confirmed at Burt County Jail, call the sheriff's office before traveling, sending mail, or trying to deposit funds.
| Custody location | Published visit status | What to do |
|---|---|---|
| Burt County Jail | No official online schedule located | Call the sheriff before travel or mail |
| Washington County Jail | Video visitation rules are published | Use CPC registration and scheduling rules after housing is confirmed |
| NDCS state prison | State prison rules apply after transfer | Use NDCS facility and locator information |
If a Burt County detainee is housed in Washington County, the visitor rules change. Washington County uses video visitation through Combined Public Communications, requires advance scheduling, and limits regular visitation to the rules published for that facility.
Burt County Jail Mail
No official Burt County jail mail rule page, inmate mail address format, money-deposit service, commissary vendor, or fee table was located in the reviewed county sources. That means the safe record practice is to confirm the housing location first. Mail sent to the wrong jail can be delayed or rejected, and money sent through an assumed vendor may not reach the person if the person has been moved.
| Service | Official Burt County detail found |
|---|---|
| Inmate mail | No local jail mail format published in reviewed sources |
| Phone or video provider | No Burt County jail vendor published in reviewed sources |
| Money deposit or commissary | No vendor or fee schedule published in reviewed sources |
Nebraska jail standards material addresses telephone and videoconferencing access at the statewide level, but a statewide rule is not a local vendor instruction. Confirm the current procedure with the jail that actually holds the person.
Burt County Jail Records
For written records, the local channel is the sheriff's office and the county public records process. Nebraska public records law requires a response as soon as practicable and without delay, and no more than four business days after actual receipt of a written request. The response may provide access, deny the request with a reason, or explain the need for more time and any estimated costs allowed by law.
- Booking record
- A jail intake record tied to an arrest, surrender, warrant, or hold.
- Pretrial detainee
- A person held while charges are pending and before final judgment.
- Sentenced inmate
- A person serving a jail or prison sentence after conviction.
- Detainer
- A hold request from another agency, such as another county, federal authority, or immigration agency.
Ask for the narrow record needed, such as booking status, release date, incident report instructions, or a jail intake record. Court filings are different records. Use the court portal for filed charges, case numbers, hearings, and dispositions.
About Burt County Jail
The Burt County Sheriff's Office also handles patrol, investigations, public safety response, registration duties, and communications. That broader office role explains why jail questions, emergency communications, records requests, and public counter services all route through the same local agency. The sheriff page also links state inmate search, sex offender registry resources, VINELink information, federal law-enforcement resources, and an HSI victim notification program.
For custody searches, those links are routing clues. They do not replace the local sheriff for current Burt County Jail status, and the NDCS link does not mean current county detainees are listed in the state prison database. A person may move from local arrest to regional jail, court, release, or state prison depending on the case.
Note: Confirm custody and visit access with the sheriff before travel, because Burt County did not publish local jail visitor rules online.