Rice County Jail Mugshots
The official Rice County online custody source is the Rice County Sheriff's Office Inmate Roster, linked from the county jail page as the Rice County Jail List. The roster is free and did not show a login requirement in the research capture. It displays a roster timestamp, a name filter, and a table with a "Front Mugshot" column. The same public row also shows the inmate name, booking date, and charges.
No official Rice County source in the research set showed a separate recent-bookings gallery, a historical mugshot archive, or a mugshot-only search page. That limit matters. Rice County jail mugshots that appear online are tied to current roster display. The county did not publish a retention period for how long a booking photo remains public after release, so a missing photo should not be read as proof that no arrest occurred.
The roster image below comes from the Rice County Jail List and shows the roster layout used for current inmate rows.
The front mugshot column is the key online place to check before calling or filing a public-records request.
Find Rice County Booking Photos
Start with the roster when the person may still be in Rice County Jail custody. The roster instruction says to type part of a last name to search. Entries are row-style records, not detailed profile pages in the accessible text. If a person does not appear, the person may still be in intake, may have been released, may have transferred to the Minnesota Department of Corrections, or may be in another county, federal, or immigration custody.
- Open the Rice County Jail List from the official jail page or go directly to the sheriff's roster.
- Check the roster timestamp so the search is tied to the displayed update time.
- Use the Filter by Name field and start with part of the last name if spelling is uncertain.
- Read the Front Mugshot, Inmate, Booked, and Charges columns together.
- If the photo is not online, call Rice County Jail at 507-332-6021 or Records Staff at 507-332-6003.
- For a public-data request, ask for the public booking photograph and public arrest data, using the person's full name and approximate booking date.
For wider custody checks, use the Minnesota DOC public viewer for sentenced state prisoners, BOP inmate locator for federal prisoners, and ICE Online Detainee Locator System for immigration custody. Those systems are separate from the Rice County Jail roster and should not be expected to show county booking photos.
Rice County Roster Photo Fields
A Rice County roster entry is narrow by design. It gives a public snapshot of current jail custody, not the full sheriff's file. The research capture found no visible bond amount, housing unit, booking number, arresting agency, court date, or release archive tab in the accessible roster text. Sensitive jail, medical, mental-health, address, phone, exact housing, and security data should not be expected in the public row.
| Roster Field | What It Shows |
|---|---|
| Front Mugshot | A front booking image or image placeholder associated with the current roster row. |
| Inmate | The listed name, displayed as "Inmate: LAST, FIRST" in the accessible text. |
| Booked | The jail booking date in a short month/day/year format. |
| Charges | Charge code and plain-language charge description, often followed by "Arrest of Adult." |
| Not shown in row text | Bond, exact housing, DOB, address, phone, booking number, court date, and release archive were not visible in the capture. |
That field list also helps avoid overreading the mugshot. The image identifies a booking event connected to a roster row. It does not show the final court charge, the evidence, or a conviction.
Rice County Mugshot Law
Minnesota law is direct about booking photographs. Minn. Stat. 13.82 defines a booking photograph as a photograph or electronically produced image taken by law enforcement for identification purposes in connection with an arrest. The statute says a booking photograph is public data unless another rule applies. It also allows temporary withholding when the agency determines access would adversely affect an active investigation.
The public law does not make the whole jail file public. Minn. Stat. 13.85 governs corrections and detention data. It protects private or confidential portions of a jail or prison file when release would reveal medical, psychological, financial, unrelated personal, safety, investigation, informant, or institutional-security information. In plain terms, a Rice County booking photo can be public while many other detention details remain withheld.
The Minnesota law-enforcement data statute is shown in the source image below.
That statute is the main reason a public roster can show a front booking photograph while withholding more sensitive detention data.
Key Statutes:
Minn. Stat. 13.82 - Booking photographs are generally public law-enforcement data unless release is temporarily withheld for an active-investigation reason.
Minn. Stat. 13.85 - Corrections and detention data can remain private or confidential when disclosure would reveal protected information or harm safety or security.
What Rice County Withholds
Public booking-photo access has limits. The roster can show a front mugshot for a person currently listed in Rice County Jail custody, but it does not publish all law-enforcement or jail records. The county's data-practices materials explain that active investigative data can be withheld, redactions may apply, and agencies should provide statutory authority if release is refused. For nonpublic data, the requester may need to prove identity or authority.
What is and isn't public: A public booking photo and basic arrest data may be available. Medical data, exact housing, protected investigative details, confidential informant data, and institutional-security details are not public roster fields.
Rice County's 2026 Data Practices policy also says a person asking only for public data cannot be forced to identify themself or use a form. There is no inspection fee for public data. Copies may involve actual costs, and small black-and-white paper copies are capped by the state rule cited in the county policy.
Request Rice County Mugshots
When a Rice County jail mugshot is not visible on the current roster, the next step is a direct public-data request rather than a commercial image search. The request should be specific: ask for the public booking photograph and public arrest data for the named person, include an approximate arrest or booking date, and include a court case number or citation number if known. If the person is still in jail, the jail phone may be the fastest route to confirm the right records contact.
The sheriff's administration page lists the Public Safety Center as the Sheriff's Office address and gives Records Staff at 507-332-6003. The jail phone is 507-332-6021. Public-data requests go to the responsible authority, designee, or authorized department employee under Rice County's Data Practices policy. Nonpublic requests, such as records about oneself that are not public, can require government photo ID, proof of authority, notarization, or informed consent from the data subject.
Rice County Sheriff's Office Records
Rice County Public Safety Center
50 East View Drive
Faribault, MN 55021
Records Staff: 507-332-6003
Jail: 507-332-6021
Mugshot Removal Limits
No Rice County-specific mugshot removal policy or post-release roster retention window was found in the official source set. Because the roster appears to be a current custody list, a booking photo may disappear when the person no longer appears on the public roster, but no official source stated a set number of hours or days. Do not assume the county keeps a public historical image gallery.
For formal record clearing, Minnesota's criminal expungement law is in Minn. Stat. ch. 609A. Expungement can seal qualifying criminal records from ordinary public access, but it is a legal process, not a simple website takedown request. An expungement order also does not automatically erase every private copy already republished elsewhere. Avoid nonofficial mugshot publishers and paid removal offers. The reliable route is to address the official court or agency record.
Dismissal, acquittal, or a later reduction can also change how a court record should be read. The image from booking remains tied to an arrest event, while the court record shows the case outcome. That is why Rice County mugshot review should be paired with MCRO when the question is whether a charge became a conviction.
Photos, Courts, and Custody
Booking photos and court records are not the same record. The roster photo belongs to the jail and law-enforcement side. Court records after an arrest live in Rice County District Court and MCRO, where the case may show a complaint, hearings, warrants, bond conditions, amended charges, dismissals, pleas, findings, and sentencing. A person can have a public booking photo without a conviction.
Federal custody works differently. The Federal Bureau of Prisons locator shows federal custody fields such as name, register number, age, race, sex, release date, and location, but it is not a public mugshot gallery. ICE's detainee locator is also separate from the county jail roster. If a person moved from local custody to state prison, use the Minnesota DOC public viewer instead of the Rice County roster. Newly sentenced people may take several business days to appear in the DOC public viewer.
Note: VINELink is useful for custody-status and release alerts, but it should not be treated as a mugshot archive.