This is a private reference site, not the Lyon County Sheriff's Office, the detention center, a court, or a records counter. We cannot confirm whether someone is in custody, release a person, post bond, pull an official booking record, or change a jail or court entry. Use the official offices and locator systems below for those tasks.
Where to Start for Lyon County Custody Records
Lyon County Sheriff's Office / Lyon County Detention Center
425 Mechanic Street, Emporia, KS 66801
Detention center and main phone: 620-341-3205
Office hours: 8:00 am-5:00 pm, Monday-Friday; patrol operates 24/7
Email: sheriff@lyoncountyks.gov
Office Manager Jill Cook: 620-341-3202
Sheriff Jeff Cope; Undersheriff John Koelsch
For records not available through the detention page or Kansas VINELink, use the sheriff's open-records page at lyoncountyks.gov/373/Open-Records-Request and the official request form at lyoncountyks.gov/DocumentCenter/View/1347/Open-Records-Request-Form-PDF. Kansas Open Records Act requests are governed by statutes including K.S.A. 45-215, 45-218, 45-221, and 45-222.
- For someone believed to be in the county jail, begin with jail inmate records, the Lyon County Detention Center phone line, and Kansas VINELink at vinelink.vineapps.com/state/KS.
- For booking photos or the limits on public display, review jail roster mugshots and request non-posted records through the sheriff's open-records process.
- For charges filed after arrest, use court records after a jail arrest and the Kansas District Court Public Access Portal at casesearch.kscourts.gov.
- For the local jail facility page, see the Lyon County Detention Center listing.
- For a person sentenced into state custody, use KDOC KASPER at kdocrepository.doc.ks.gov/kasper/search/disclaimer.
- For federal custody or immigration detention, use the federal BOP locator at bop.gov/inmateloc or ICE ODLS at locator.ice.gov/odls; those systems are separate from Lyon County jail custody.