Brown County Jail Roster
Brown County publishes inmate custody information through the Sheriff's Office and jail pages. The Brown County Sheriff's Office is located at 15 S Washington Street, 2nd Floor, New Ulm, MN 56073. The sheriff's main phone is 507-233-6700, and the county jail phone is 507-233-6775. The county directory identifies the office as an elected sheriff's office for the 2023-2026 term, while the official directory page reviewed did not display the sheriff's name on the page.
The jail roster is posted as a PDF, not as a searchable jail database. The research reviewed a roster current as of Tuesday, June 23, 2026. That roster displayed current inmates, booking date and time, age, bail, arresting agency, charges, status, and projected release date. It did not show mugshots or booking numbers in the extracted text. A reader checking custody should open the current roster, then call the jail when timing or release status matters.
The Brown County Sheriff's Office page is the manifest source for sheriff and custody access points.
The sheriff page connects the jail roster, warrants, civil process, forms, and public-safety channels in one county source.
Use the Brown County Inmate Roster
The current roster is linked from the county's jail information pages. Because the roster is a PDF, there are no official online search fields such as last name, booking number, date of birth, or housing unit. A PDF viewer may allow text find, but that is only a reader tool. It does not query a live jail database or prove the person remains in custody after the roster was posted.
- Open the Brown County Jail Roster PDF from the county website.
- Check the roster's current-as-posted date before relying on a custody entry.
- Use the PDF viewer's find function for a name if the file text is searchable.
- Review booking date, bail, arresting agency, charges, status, and projected release date.
- Call the county jail at 507-233-6775 for current custody, visit scheduling, or release-status questions.
For the related court case, use MCRO or Brown County District Court records. A roster charge can be only the beginning of a case. Court charges, pleas, hearings, disposition, and sentencing belong in the district court file and may update on a different schedule than the jail roster.
Brown County Roster Access Fields
The roster's access method is itself important. The research inventory marked the Brown County Jail Roster PDF as "n/a, PDF list not searchable" for search fields, so the table below states what is and is not available without inventing a portal. The county provides a public report; the user supplies no form fields to the county site.
| Access Item | Type | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Roster PDF link | Public PDF report | Yes | Open the county-posted roster from the jail roster page. |
| Name search box | Not provided by county | No | Use only the PDF viewer's find tool if the text can be searched. |
| Booking number | Not visible in extracted roster text | No | The research did not locate booking-number search or display. |
| Current custody confirmation | Phone | As needed | Call 507-233-6775 when timing, transfer, or release status matters. |
The Brown County jail information forms and links page provides jail roster and detainee resource links.
That source is also where calling-card, commissary, jail-guide, and PREA links were identified.
Brown County Inmate Record Fields
The roster field inventory is specific to the public PDF reviewed in the research. It shows useful current custody facts, but it omits several fields that people may expect from larger jail systems. Court date, pod, tank, mugshot, and booking number were not visible in the extracted roster text. Warrant numbers belong in the warrant PDF, not in the jail roster excerpt.
| Field | What It Shows |
|---|---|
| Name | The inmate's name as listed on the public roster. |
| Date and time of booking | When the person was booked into Brown County custody. |
| Age | The inmate age shown by the roster. |
| Bail amount | Bail shown on the roster, including $0.00, high-bail, or no-bail context when listed. |
| Arresting agency | The agency tied to the booking, such as Brown County Sheriff or a city police department. |
| Charges | Text descriptions of charge or warrant reasons, not always statute-code detail. |
| Status per charge | Examples include Bail Set, Hold Placed, No Bail, and Sentenced. |
| Projected release date | A release date column is present and populated where applicable. |
Sample roster entries in the research included a booking for assault, burglary, and an Iowa warrant; another entry for theft with sentenced status; and a high-bail entry with failure-to-appear and murder-related charges. Those examples show why roster text should be read as custody data, not a final conviction record.
Brown County Jail Facility
The Brown County Jail and Law Enforcement Center was constructed in 1994. The county describes it as a 56-bed facility that houses male and female offenders. Jail Administrator Steve Appel supervises daily jail operations with the jail programmer and 15 correctional officers. The jail may hold people charged with Brown County crimes and awaiting trial, people found guilty and awaiting sentence, people sentenced to less than one year locally, people waiting for transfer to Minnesota DOC after a longer sentence, and people held on warrants from other jurisdictions.
Brown County Jail
15 S Washington Street, 2nd Floor
New Ulm, MN 56073
507-233-6775
56-bed county jail; visit scheduling requires a jail call 24 hours in advance.
The Brown County Jail page is the county source for facility capacity and jail rules.
The facility page is the strongest source for the 56-bed capacity, administrator role, visitor scheduling rule, and property restrictions.
Brown County Inmate Visitation
Brown County's key visitation rule is clear: all visitors need to call the jail 24 hours in advance to schedule a visit with an inmate. The research did not locate an official weekly schedule, visit length, dress code, child-visitor rule, attorney-visit schedule, or video-visit vendor in the reviewed county pages. Those details should be confirmed with the jail before travel or before sending a family member to the facility.
| Topic | Brown County Rule Located | How to Confirm |
|---|---|---|
| Scheduling | Call the jail 24 hours in advance to schedule a visit. | 507-233-6775 |
| Visitor ID | No specific ID rule located in official sources reviewed. | Confirm with jail. |
| Dress code | No official dress-code detail located in reviewed sources. | Confirm with jail. |
| Child visitors | No official child-visitor rule located in reviewed sources. | Confirm with jail. |
| Visit length | No visit-length table located in reviewed sources. | Confirm with jail. |
| Remote or video visits | No official Brown County video vendor located in reviewed sources. | Do not rely on an unverified vendor. |
Note: The absence of a public weekly schedule is itself a Brown County access fact; the posted rule is to call ahead.
Brown County Jail Property and Funds
Property rules are more detailed than the public visit schedule. All property dropped off or shipped into the jail must be approved and searched before it is accepted. Property is only dropped or shipped for Treatment, STS, Work Release, and In-Person Jury Trial reasons unless another reason is pre-approved by the Jail Administrator or Jail Programmer. The bag may not exceed 18 by 14 by 8.
The jail information and forms page links a Brown County Jail Guide for Friends and Family of Detainees, PREA information, jail roster access, a calling-card purchase link through manage.reliancetelephone.com, and a commissary deposit link through jailpayments.com. The research did not verify detailed phone prices, commissary fees, mail-address format, or a complete visit schedule from the jail guide, so those details should not be invented from vendor patterns.
- Calling cards: The county links a Reliance Telephone purchase path for inmate calls.
- Commissary deposits: The county links a jailpayments.com deposit path for inmate commissary funds.
- Property approval: Dropped or shipped property must be approved and searched before acceptance.
- Allowed reasons: Treatment, STS, Work Release, and In-Person Jury Trial property are specifically named.
- Bag size: Property bags may not exceed 18 by 14 by 8.
Brown County DOC Fallback
The Brown County jail roster covers local jail custody. It does not cover every person sentenced to state prison, transferred to the Minnesota Department of Corrections, released to supervision, or held elsewhere. The Minnesota DOC public viewer covers adults committed to the Commissioner of Corrections and still under DOC jurisdiction. The DOC page warns that newly sentenced individuals may take several business days to display.
| DOC Search Field | Type | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Search method | Radio choice | Yes | Name or MNDOC Offender ID. |
| Name | Text | Conditional | Used to retrieve adults under DOC jurisdiction. |
| MNDOC Offender ID | Text | Conditional | Exact ID search when known. |
| Search | Button | Not applicable | Runs the DOC public viewer query. |
The Minnesota DOC public viewer is the manifest source for state custody fallback searches.
Use the DOC viewer when the person may be in state custody or supervision, not for current Brown County Jail booking status.
Brown County Inmate Access Limits
For sheriff or jail data not posted publicly, Brown County's Data Practices Inventory and public-data forms are the official county-data request path, subject to Minnesota law-enforcement and corrections-data limits. Court events, bond conditions, and case dispositions should be checked through MCRO or Brown County Court Administration rather than assumed from the jail roster. BCA criminal history is also separate; it is a conviction-history source, not a current custody roster.
No official Brown County Minnesota sheriff app or New Ulm police app was located in the reviewed Apple, Google, and official source searches. Results found during research pointed to other Brown Counties or generic third-party tools. Brown County instead provides web access through the jail roster PDF, warrant PDF, Sheriff Tipline, jail links, and Alert Sign Up.
The Brown County Sheriff's Office directory is the manifest source for sheriff and jail phone contacts.
The directory contact card is the practical fallback when the roster PDF does not answer a current custody question.
Important: A jail roster entry is not a conviction record; verify court outcomes through Brown County District Court records.