Clarke County Jail Mugshots Overview
No official Clarke County public mugshot roster, recent-bookings gallery, or daily booking photo page was located in the county sources reviewed. The Clarke County Sheriff's Office page names Sheriff Anthony Chancelor, gives the sheriff address at 444 West Donald Street in Quitman, and states that the sheriff serves as jailor and keeps a jail docket. It does not publish booking photos or a searchable inmate image gallery.
That distinction is the key fact for Clarke County jail mugshots. Mississippi law requires a jail docket with specific custody fields, but a booking photo is not listed as one of those required jail docket fields. The docket may be public while the photograph still requires a separate Public Records Act request. A requester should ask the sheriff whether the booking photograph is maintained for the booking and whether it can be released in nonexempt form.
What is and is not public: Jail docket information is public by statute, but a booking photo is different from the required docket fields and may need a records request.
Clarke Jail Docket vs Mugshots
The jail docket is the strongest local record source because Miss. Code § 19-25-63 requires every sheriff to keep one. The statute calls for entries about the warrant or mittimus, the nature of the writ or warrant, the issuing authority, the prisoner's name, the date received, arrest and commitment dates, the crime or other cause, the authority for imprisonment, the confinement period, and the way the person was released or discharged. A mugshot is not named in that list.
| Record Field | What Clarke County Research Supports |
|---|---|
| Booking photo | Not required by the jail docket statute; no official county gallery located. |
| Name | Required in the sheriff's jail docket. |
| Warrant or mittimus | Required as the authority by which the person was received or held. |
| Dates | Received date, arrest date, and commitment date are part of the docket framework. |
| Charge or cause | The crime or other cause for confinement is a docket category. |
| Release details | How the person was released or discharged is part of the required docket. |
A docket request can confirm basic custody facts even when no mugshot is posted online. Redactions may still apply for juvenile information, medical facts, active investigations, sealed court matters, victim details, or other exempt material.
Request Clarke County Booking Photos
Because no official online Clarke County jail mugshots page was found, the practical path is direct contact with the sheriff. Ask for current custody first. Then ask whether the sheriff maintains a booking photograph for that booking and whether the photo is releasable under the Mississippi Public Records Act. The county forms page did not provide a sheriff-specific mugshot request form, so a written request should be clear and narrow.
- Call the Clarke County Sheriff's Office at 601-776-5252 to confirm the person is or was booked at the Clarke County Jail.
- Use the sheriff address, 444 West Donald Street, Quitman, MS 39355, for an in-person or mailed records request if the office requires writing.
- Ask for the booking photograph or mugshot maintained for the specific booking, not a general photo search.
- Include full legal name, date of birth if known, arrest date, charge or case number if known, and arresting agency if known.
- Ask for nonexempt portions if any part of the record is withheld or redacted.
Miss. Code § 25-61-5 provides access to nonexempt public records under reasonable procedures. Miss. Code § 25-61-7 allows fees for search, review, duplication, and mailing. Mississippi law generally expects action within seven working days unless a lawful extension or denial process applies.
No Clarke Mugshot Gallery Found
The county research did not locate a sheriff-hosted public roster, daily booking report, booking photo page, or mobile app with mugshot access. Tiger Commissary recognizes Clarke County Jail for web deposits and commissary orders, but that vendor page is not a mugshot source. A person looking for current custody should use the sheriff, VINE, and court channels instead of assuming a photo page exists.
| Channel | Use for Mugshot Search | Limit |
|---|---|---|
| Sheriff phone or counter | Best local route for current booking photo questions. | Release may require a records request or may be limited by exemption. |
| Jail docket request | Confirms booking and custody facts. | Does not automatically include a photo. |
| Mississippi VINE | Custody status and notifications. | Not a booking photo gallery. |
| Justice Court or Circuit Clerk | Filed charges and court record status after arrest. | Court records are different from jail photos. |
| Sheriff app | No official Clarke sheriff app was located. | No app-only mugshot channel was found. |
Mississippi Mugshot Public Record Law
Mississippi's public-record rules support access to nonexempt government records, but they do not make every law-enforcement image public in the same way as a jail docket entry. Research located a Mississippi county-government guide discussion of an Ethics Commission matter noting that names and charges in sheriff jail dockets are public record, while mug shots are not listed as required docket items and a picture is not the same thing as a narrative incident description. That supports cautious wording for Clarke County jail mugshots.
Key statutes:
Miss. Code § 19-25-63 requires the sheriff to keep a jail docket with custody, charge, warrant, and release fields.
Miss. Code § 25-61-5 makes nonexempt public records available for inspection and copying under reasonable procedures.
Miss. Code § 25-61-13 gives the Mississippi Ethics Commission authority over public-record access complaints.
The safest request language is precise: ask for the booking photograph maintained for a named booking, plus the nonexempt jail docket entry. That phrasing avoids treating the docket and the mugshot as the same record.
MDOC Photos After Clarke Sentencing
Once a person is sentenced to state prison, the Clarke County jail is no longer the main lookup point. The Mississippi Department of Corrections inmate search covers sentenced MDOC prisoners. MDOC profiles often display photos and can show the MDOC ID number, name, race, sex, date of birth, height, weight, entry date, location, unit, offense list, sentence length, county of conviction, sentence date, and tentative release date.
That state profile photo is not a Clarke County jail mugshot gallery. It is an MDOC profile image tied to a sentenced state prisoner. Use MDOC when the person has left county custody after conviction and sentence. Use the sheriff when the question is about a new booking, a jail docket entry, a local release, or a booking photo maintained by Clarke County Jail.
Federal and ICE Mugshot Limits
No Bureau of Prisons or ICE detention facility was found in Clarke County. The BOP inmate locator is the correct federal custody search for federal inmates from 1982 to the present, but it does not publish mugshots. The BOP by-name search uses first name, middle name, last name, race, sex, and age, and the main locator also supports number searches.
ICE's Online Detainee Locator System is the correct immigration custody route. It searches by A-number and country of birth or by name, country of birth, and date of birth. ICE does not publish mugshots through that locator. If a person was first booked in Clarke County on a local charge and later transferred or held for another agency, the photo question remains tied to the agency that maintains the image record.
Mugshot Removal After Expunction
Removal depends on the source of the image. If Clarke County released a booking photo and the case later became eligible for clearing, the records-clearing path runs through court orders and agency records, not through a private removal shortcut. Miss. Code § 99-19-71 provides expunction routes for certain arrests, including cases dismissed, dropped, lacking a disposition, or ending in a not guilty result.
After an expunction order, give the sheriff or the relevant court office a copy of the signed order and ask what records it controls. Court records after a jail arrest may also need review through the Circuit Clerk, Justice Court, or MEC/PAMEC, depending on where the charge was filed. The court record and the booking photo are separate records, so both may need specific attention.
Avoid Unofficial Mugshot Sources
Unofficial mugshot pages can be incomplete, stale, or mixed with records from other counties. Clarke County research did not identify an official sheriff mugshot gallery, so the reliable local path is the sheriff, jail docket, Public Records Act request, court clerk, VINE, and MDOC for sentenced prisoners. Do not treat a copied image from an unofficial source as proof that a person is still in Clarke County custody.
For current custody, call the Clarke County Sheriff's Office. For filed charges, use Clarke County court records after an arrest. For jail status and docket fields, use Clarke County jail inmate records. Each record type answers a different question, and none should be used as a substitute for final verification by the originating office.