This is a private reference site, not a Lamar County government office. We cannot confirm whether a person is in custody or released, pull official booking records, post bond, release anyone, or contact a jail or court on your behalf. Use the official office that controls the record or custody status.
Where Lamar County Release Questions Go
Use the contact route that matches the kind of record or custody system involved. Lamar County Jail release questions start with the sheriff or jail. Written county records follow the county public-records procedure. Court disposition questions go through the Lamar County Circuit Clerk and Alacourt.
Lamar County Sheriff and Jail
Sheriff Martin Gottwald
330 1st Street North East
Vernon, AL 35592-0770
Phone: (205) 695-7470
Lamar County Jail is listed at 1118 County Road 9, Vernon, AL 35592. Confirm any jail-release line through the sheriff's office before relying on a directory number.
Lamar County Commission Public Records
In-person request location:
Lamar County Commission
205 Butler Circle
Vernon, AL 35592
Questions: 205-695-7333
USPS fee remittance:
Lamar Public Officer, Suzanne Otts, County Administrator
P.O. Box 338
Vernon, AL 35592
The county procedure requires the standard public-records request form, proof of Alabama residency, in-person submission, and fee prepayment by cash, money order, or certified bank funds. The procedure says unsolicited electronic public-records requests will not be answered.
Lamar County Circuit Clerk and Alacourt
Lamar County Judicial Center
330 1st Street NE
P.O. Box 434
Vernon, AL 35592
Phone: (205) 695-7193
Hours: 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday
Use the Lamar County Circuit Clerk and Alacourt / Just One Look for court records that may show bond, dismissal, sentence, probation, transfer, or other disposition details.
State Corrections and Supervision
ADOC Central Office
301 South Ripley Street
P.O. Box 301501
Montgomery, AL 36130-1501
Main: 1-334-353-3883
Central Records: 1-334-353-9738
Public Records Coordinator: public.records@doc.alabama.gov
ADOC public-records requests use Form 23-A and the processing-fee procedure under Administrative Regulation No. 23. For supervision after release, ABPP headquarters is at 301 S. Ripley St., Montgomery, AL, phone +1 (334) 242-8700, email questions@paroles.alabama.gov. ABPP public-records forms may be submitted to public.records@paroles.alabama.gov, and Vernon is listed as the Lamar County field-office city.
For fast routing, match the question to the record source below.
- Released from Lamar County Jail or needing a booking/release entry: start with the home page, then contact the sheriff or use the county public-records procedure.
- Parole, probation, or other state supervision after release: use parole / probation and ABPP channels.
- Recent local release confirmation: use Released Last 24 Hours and the same jail, court, and records-request fallback because no official local recent-release feed was found.
- Release date or alert questions: use Inmate Release Date, VINELink Release Check, Alabama VNS at victims.alabama.gov, or VINELink at vinelink.com/state/AL.
- Sentenced state-prison custody: use ADOC inmate search and ADOC Central Records.
- Federal custody: use the BOP inmate locator at bop.gov/inmateloc.
- Immigration detention or transfer: use ICE's Online Detainee Locator System at locator.ice.gov.