Please read this first. DeSoto County Inmate Population is a private reference website, not a government office. We are not the sheriff, the jail, the clerk, or any corrections agency, and we have no staff who can act on a case. We cannot confirm whether someone is in custody, release a person, accept or post bond, or pull official booking paperwork. For any of those things you need to deal with the government office that holds the record directly, using the contact details below.
Trying to Find a Person or a Record?
If your question is about someone held in DeSoto County, the agency that runs the jail is the place to start. Here is how to reach them.
DeSoto County Sheriff's Office / DeSoto County Jail
208 East Cypress Street
Arcadia, FL 34266
Jail and non-emergency line: 863-993-4710
Main sheriff's office: 863-993-4700
For copies of official records, the DCSO takes public-records requests through its online portal at https://desotosherifffl.justfoia.com/publicportal/home/newrequest.
Court case records are handled by a different office. Reach the DeSoto County Clerk of the Circuit Court at CustomerService@DesotoClerk.com or 863-993-4876.
Not sure which page on this site fits your situation? Use the quick guide below to head straight to the right resource.
- To check whether a person is being held in the county jail right now, see our guide to jail inmate records.
- To look for a booking photo from an arrest, start with jail roster mugshots.
- To track the charges and case that follow an arrest, read about court records after a jail arrest.
- To learn about one specific building, open the matching detention facility page linked in the footer.
- To find someone serving a state prison sentence, use the statewide Florida Department of Corrections offender locator at https://pubapps.fdc.myflorida.com/OffenderSearch/inmateinfomenu.aspx.
- To locate a federal prisoner or an immigration detainee, search the Federal Bureau of Prisons locator or the ICE Online Detainee Locator.