Ottawa County Detention Facility Inmate Lookup

Ottawa County Detention Facility Overview

Ottawa County Detention Facility is operated by the Ottawa County Sheriff's Office at 315 Madison Street, Room 110, Port Clinton, OH 43452. The sheriff's Corrections Division identifies this jail as the county's full-service detention facility, separate from the Ottawa County Minimum Security Jail. The facility is tied closely to the Madison Street county-government complex: the sheriff, Common Pleas Court, Clerk of Courts, and prosecutor are all listed in the same downtown Port Clinton block, while Ottawa County Municipal Court is east on East Perry Street.

The Detention Facility holds adult men and women charged with or convicted of misdemeanor and felony offenses. That means it can include newly booked pretrial detainees, people serving local jail sentences, defendants waiting for court action, and people held on warrants, detainers, or transfer authority. It should not be confused with Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction prison custody. Once a person is committed to a state prison, the county JailTracker roster is no longer the primary lookup path; the Ohio DRC Offender Search becomes the better tool.

The sheriff's Corrections page is the best local source for facility identity and services, and the sheriff homepage identifies Sheriff Stephen J. Levorchick as Ottawa County's elected sheriff at ottawacountysheriff.info. The Corrections page describes the division as the largest division in the Sheriff's Office and lists corrections deputies, transport staff, an inmate work program deputy, medical staff, mental-health staff, an assistant jail administrator, and the jail administrator. That structure matters for records users because custody, transport, medical screening, housing, program access, and release documentation are handled inside a sheriff-run county corrections operation rather than by a private jail vendor.

The sheriff's Corrections Division source at ottawacountysheriff.info/corrections/ identifies the Detention Facility and the Minimum Security Jail as the two county jail facilities.

The Corrections Division page is important because it supplies the bed count, population description, program list, medical and mental-health references, and ICSolutions contact path used throughout this facility page.

Ottawa County Detention Facility Capacity and Population

The Ottawa County Sheriff's Office lists the Detention Facility as a 41-bed full-service county jail. The same research file records the Minimum Security Jail as a 48-bed dormitory-style facility, for a sheriff-described county jail total of 89 beds. A live same-day inmate count was not published in an official static source during research, so the current population should be checked through the roster or by calling the jail when the exact count matters.

For historical context, Vera Incarceration Trends showed an Ottawa County jail population of 73 in 2023 against a county jail rated capacity field of 87. That Vera series is useful for trend context, but it is not a substitute for the sheriff's current facility counts or the live JailTracker roster. The research file specifically cautions that Vera's historical county data may involve standardized series fields and should not be treated as a real-time audit.

How to Look Up an Inmate at Ottawa County Detention Facility

Use the official Ottawa County JailTracker roster for current sheriff custody. The roster is linked from the sheriff's website and opens through Public Safety Cloud at Ottawa County JailTracker. It is the correct starting point for a person who may be in the Detention Facility or the Minimum Security Jail. If the roster shows a facility or location field, use it to confirm whether the person is housed in the full-service jail. If no location field is visible, call the jail administration line or the Full Service Facility number.

1. Open the Ottawa County JailTracker roster from the sheriff's site or the direct Public Safety Cloud roster link.
2. Search by last name first. If first name, agency, search type, or CAPTCHA fields appear, use them to narrow or complete the search.
3. Open the person record and compare name, booking date, status, charges, bond, court, arresting agency, image if shown, and any facility/location field.
4. If the person is not listed, call 419-734-4404, jail administration at 419-734-6864, or the Full Service Facility line listed on the fee sheet as 419-734-6828. Also check VINELink, ODRC, BOP, or ICE if release, transfer, prison, federal, or immigration custody is possible.

The public roster model supports fields for name, original booking date, status, jacket, image paths, charges, arresting agency, case numbers, warrant numbers, court details, bond fields, holds, sentence, and final release date/time. Research could not confirm that every field is visible on every public profile, so use the roster as a current-custody tool and rely on the sheriff's public-records process for older or non-displayed booking records. Deputy Heather Moss is the sheriff's public-records contact at 419-734-6823 and hmoss@ottawacountysheriff.org.

The Ottawa County Sheriff's Office mobile app is another access channel. The iOS and Google Play listings advertise public inmate views, news releases, sheriff sales, and citizen communication features. The app is not documented as the only roster source because the sheriff website also links to JailTracker, but it is worth checking if the web roster is difficult to use on a phone.

Ottawa County Detention Facility Address and Contact

The main visitor, records, and sheriff-office address for the Detention Facility is the Madison Street government complex in Port Clinton. Call before traveling, especially for visitation or urgent custody status, because the sheriff's official pages emphasize video visitation through ICSolutions rather than a published walk-in visiting schedule. For public-records requests, use the sheriff's public-records contact rather than assuming jail staff can produce copies at a counter.

Visiting Someone at Ottawa County Detention Facility

Ottawa County's official visitation information centers on ICSolutions/The Visitor. The sheriff's Corrections page says each person wishing to visit must set up an account with ICSolutions. The Ottawa County ICSolutions page says registration is free, visits may be conducted onsite from facility terminals or offsite from a Windows computer, Android device, iPhone, or iPad, and offsite visits are fee-based. The vendor warns that offsite connectivity problems are not refunded and that rule violations can suspend or terminate visiting privileges.

The Ottawa County ICSolutions page at thevisitor.icsenforcer.com explains the video-visit registration and device options for the Sheriff's Office.

Because Ottawa County did not publish a static day-by-day face-to-face schedule in the inspected sheriff pages, the account schedule and facility confirmation are the controlling practical steps before a visit.

Mail, Phone, and Money at Ottawa County Detention Facility

The sheriff's pages did not publish a full inmate mail matrix, postcard rule, scanned-mail vendor, publication policy, or commissary schedule. Use the official jail address only after confirming the correct inmate-mail format with the facility or inmate handbook. Ohio jail standards permit incoming mail, correspondence, and packages to be opened and inspected for contraband or non-permitted items; legal mail is inspected in the inmate's presence for contraband.

For phone and messaging, the sheriff directs family and friends to ICSolutions. Through that channel, users can set up an account, send messages, put funds on an inmate's phone account, and leave voice messages. The sheriff's pages did not publish per-minute rates, deposit fees, kiosk hours, deposit limits, or a separate commissary vendor, so those details should be checked directly in ICSolutions or with jail administration before sending money.

Booking and Intake at Ottawa County Detention Facility

A typical Ottawa County jail intake starts after an arrest, warrant service, court commitment, or transfer. The arresting agency brings the person to sheriff custody unless the person is cited and released, diverted, taken for medical care, or handled by another lawful process. Staff confirm identity, legal authority, warrant or court paperwork, and arresting-agency details, then complete search and property steps, booking photo and fingerprints where applicable, medical and mental-health screening, classification, and housing assignment.

The Detention Facility is the full-service jail, so it is the primary local intake setting for adult men and women charged with or convicted of misdemeanor and felony offenses. Ohio full-service jail standards require receiving screens, health appraisals for continued custody, emergency medical and mental-health care, release documentation, housing records, sanitation controls, and mail and visitation procedures. The sheriff's page also says inmates receive access to the Ottawa County Sheriff's Office Inmate Handbook upon booking for orientation services.

New bookings may not appear on JailTracker instantly. No official roster refresh cycle was located, so avoid relying on a guessed update interval. If the matter is time-sensitive, call the sheriff or jail. Bond and court timing can also change quickly. The Municipal Court bond schedule includes recognizance as the rule for many misdemeanor cases, but felony charges, domestic-violence categories, protection-order matters, existing warrants, probation holds, and other exceptions can require judge or magistrate action and can block release even when one bond is posted.

Programs, Medical Care, and Conditions at Ottawa County Detention Facility

The sheriff's Corrections page lists religious services, AA/NA group or individual services, and education services for the Ottawa County Detention Facility. It also states that inmates have the right to medical, mental-health, and dental services. The Corrections Division employs full-time medical staff and a full-time mental-health professional, and Ohio jail rules require emergency care, sick call, daily health and mental-health request procedures, and a medical/mental-health grievance system.

ODRC report listings show 2025 annual jail inspection entries for both the Ottawa County Detention Facility and Ottawa County MSJ. The Detention Facility listing is dated October 16, 2025. The research file could not quote inspection findings because the direct PDF path returned an error during final inspection, so the inspection listing should be treated as proof of state-report activity, not as a summary of conditions. No official DOJ consent decree, federal jail-conditions investigation, current release order, or confirmed Ottawa County death-in-custody report was located in the inspected official sources.

For PREA concerns involving an incarcerated person, the sheriff page gives the RAINN National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-4673. Use that as a sexual-abuse reporting channel, not as a general records or visitation line. For ordinary records, call Deputy Heather Moss at 419-734-6823 or email hmoss@ottawacountysheriff.org. For immediate emergencies, use emergency services rather than the roster, app, or visitation vendor.