Ottawa County Minimum Security Jail Roster Lookup

Ottawa County Minimum Security Jail Overview

Ottawa County Minimum Security Jail, often shortened to MSJ in local custody discussions, is operated by the Ottawa County Sheriff's Office under Sheriff Stephen J. Levorchick, whose official sheriff site is ottawacountysheriff.info. The sheriff's Corrections page describes MSJ as a 48-bed dormitory-style facility. It is not the default destination for every new arrest and should not be described as a general booking jail. The Detention Facility is the county's 41-bed full-service jail, while the MSJ is for people the jail determines can be housed in a lower-security dormitory-style setting.

The address requires a careful caveat. The research file records 1862 East Perry Street, Port Clinton, OH 43452 from an Ohio Department of Behavioral Health MAT in Jails search result, but it also notes that sheriff pages route jail administration through 315 Madison Street, Room 110. Because the direct spreadsheet could not be downloaded during final inspection, the East Perry Street location should be confirmed before relying on a map pin, mailing anything, or reporting for custody. The MSJ facility phone from the sheriff's June 2025 records-cost sheet is 419-734-6995, and jail administration is listed as 419-734-6864.

The most important local rule is eligibility. The sheriff's Corrections page says that even if a court states the Minimum Security Jail option is available, the jail makes the final determination about who can be housed there. That means a court order, bond schedule, sentence, or attorney instruction may not be the last word on placement. Classification, legal holds, medical or mental-health needs, behavior, offense status, warrants, transport needs, and facility capacity can all affect whether the person is housed at MSJ or remains in the full-service Detention Facility.

The sheriff's Corrections Division page at ottawacountysheriff.info/corrections/ is the controlling local source for the MSJ capacity, eligibility warning, programs, and ICSolutions direction.

The same sheriff page links the Minimum Security Jail to the broader Corrections Division, which is why the lookup, communication, visitation, and public-records fallback paths overlap with the full-service jail.

Ottawa County Minimum Security Jail Capacity and Population

The sheriff lists the Ottawa County Minimum Security Jail as a 48-bed dormitory-style facility. Combined with the 41-bed Detention Facility, the sheriff-described local jail system has 89 beds. The research file also cites Vera Incarceration Trends for a 2023 county jail population of 73 and a county jail capacity field of 87, but those Vera figures are countywide trend context, not a live MSJ head count and not a separate dormitory count.

No official static page published a same-day MSJ population count. If the current population, available beds, or a specific person's housing location matters, check the JailTracker roster first and then call the MSJ facility line or jail administration. Do not assume that a person is housed in the Minimum Security Jail merely because a court discussed minimum security or work-release-style custody; the sheriff's own page says the jail makes the final housing decision.

How to Look Up an Inmate at Ottawa County Minimum Security Jail

Use the same Ottawa County JailTracker roster used for the Detention Facility because both jails are operated by the sheriff. The direct roster is Ottawa County JailTracker. If the roster displays facility, location, or status fields, use those fields to distinguish MSJ from the full-service Detention Facility. If the roster does not show housing location, call the MSJ facility line at 419-734-6995 or jail administration at 419-734-6864.

1. Open the Ottawa County JailTracker roster from the sheriff's website or the direct Public Safety Cloud link.
2. Search by last name, then narrow by first name, agency, search type, or CAPTCHA if the interface presents those options.
3. Review the profile for status, booking date, charges, bond, holds, sentence, and any facility or location field.
4. For MSJ placement questions, call the MSJ line or jail administration. For a person transferred to state prison, search Ohio DRC instead of the county roster.

The roster model supports fields for offender name, booking/original book date, final release date/time, jacket, image paths, facility display, status, charges, arresting agency, court details, case numbers, warrant numbers, bond fields, holds, and sentence. Research could not confirm exactly which fields are shown in every rendered profile. Treat JailTracker as a current custody roster and use sheriff public records for older booking records, booking photos not displayed online, incident materials, or release documentation.

The Ottawa County Sheriff's Office app is another documented custody-view channel. The App Store and Google Play listings advertise public inmate views, news releases, sheriff sales, and citizen interaction features. Google Play showed an update date of June 5, 2026 in the research file. The app is useful as a backup channel, but the inspected app-store text did not prove a separate active-warrant search or MSJ-only roster.

Ottawa County Minimum Security Jail Address and Contact

Use the MSJ phone line for facility-specific questions and jail administration for custody, classification, reporting, or records routing. The East Perry Street address is included because it appears in the research as the MSJ location, but the research also says to confirm it before a map pin. For public records, Deputy Heather Moss remains the sheriff's public-records contact at 419-734-6823 and hmoss@ottawacountysheriff.org.

Visiting Someone at Ottawa County Minimum Security Jail

The sheriff's pages did not publish a separate MSJ visitation schedule. Treat ICSolutions/The Visitor as the shared sheriff video-visitation system unless the facility gives different instructions. Visitors must create an ICSolutions account, register at no cost, and schedule through the platform. Onsite video visits use facility terminals, while offsite video visits use a supported Windows computer, Android device, iPhone, or iPad. Offsite visits are fee-based and internet connectivity problems are not refunded.

The Ottawa County ICSolutions page at thevisitor.icsenforcer.com describes registration, onsite terminals, offsite device options, and the no-refund connectivity warning.

For MSJ visitors, the practical step is to confirm the person's facility placement first, then schedule through the ICSolutions account rather than relying on a static public visiting calendar.

Mail, Phone, and Money at Ottawa County Minimum Security Jail

The MSJ has one highly specific property detail in the sheriff research: if an offender qualifies for the Minimum Security Jail, the person may bring $100 cash at initial booking. If the person brings a personal Bible, the person may take it when released. The sheriff did not publish a full MSJ property list, clothing rule, medication drop-off rule, work-release equipment rule, or mail matrix in the inspected pages. Confirm all property and reporting instructions with jail administration before bringing anything.

For communication accounts, use ICSolutions. The sheriff's Corrections page says family and friends can use ICSolutions to set up an account, send messages, put funds on an inmate's phone account, and leave voice messages. The sheriff did not publish per-minute phone rates, commissary order days, deposit limits, lobby kiosk hours, or a separate commissary provider. For mail, confirm the correct format and delivery location with MSJ or jail administration before sending personal mail.

Booking, Classification, and MSJ Placement

MSJ placement is a classification decision, not a promise created by a search result or a casual reference to minimum security. A new arrest normally begins with the sheriff's full-service intake path: identity confirmation, booking authority, warrant or court paperwork, search and property inventory, booking photo and fingerprints as applicable, medical and mental-health receiving screen, and housing classification. Only after staff determine suitability can a person be placed in the Minimum Security Jail.

The sheriff's warning about final eligibility should be read literally. A court may say MSJ is available, but the jail decides whether the person can be housed there. That distinction matters for people ordered to report, family members trying to bring property, and attorneys trying to confirm housing. Holds, felony status, behavioral concerns, medical needs, mental-health needs, work-program requirements, transport requirements, or a change in custody status may move the person out of minimum-security eligibility.

Ohio jail standards still matter. Receiving screens, health appraisals for continued custody, emergency medical and mental-health care, mail controls, release documentation, sanitation requirements, and professional-visit security apply to jail operations. The sheriff says inmates have access to the Ottawa County Sheriff's Office Inmate Handbook upon booking for orientation. The handbook or facility staff should be treated as the source for detailed MSJ reporting instructions that were not posted on the inspected public pages.

Programs, Conditions, and MSJ Limits

Because the Minimum Security Jail is part of the Ottawa County Sheriff's Corrections Division, the verified local program list should be read together with the MSJ's separate eligibility rule. The sheriff's Corrections page lists religious services, AA/NA group or individual services, and education services. It also states that inmates have the right to medical, mental-health, and dental services, and the division employs full-time medical staff and a full-time mental-health professional.

The MSJ's dormitory style changes the custody environment, but it does not remove the need for screening, classification, supervision, and rule enforcement. Ohio jail standards require health and mental-health requests, emergency care, sanitation procedures, mail inspection for contraband, and visitor-security procedures. The sheriff page also directs PREA sexual-abuse concerns involving incarcerated people to the RAINN National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-4673. That is a specific safety reporting channel, not a general information line.

ODRC report listings show a 2025 annual inspection report entry for Ottawa County MSJ dated November 13, 2025. The research file could not quote the inspection findings because the direct PDF was not available during final inspection. No official DOJ consent decree, federal jail-conditions investigation, jail closure, new-jail construction project, or current release order was located in the inspected official sources. Use the sheriff's public pages and jail administration for current operational rules.