La Salle County Inmate Roster Lookup

La Salle County Jail Roster Overview

La Salle County's published local roster channel is the iSOMS portal for the La Salle County Sheriff's Office. The portal landing page is branded for the sheriff's office and exposes links for Jail, Jail Intake/Release for the last 24 hours, Jail Intake/Release for the last 72 hours, and Missing Persons. During research, the Jail and recent intake/release endpoints redirected to a human-check page. That means the online roster exists, but the accessible research could not inspect live search fields, result columns, profile pages, update timing, or how long a released person remains listed.

The local jail is the La Salle County Jail in Cotulla, operated by the La Salle County Sheriff's Office under Sheriff Hector C. Ramirez. The jail and dispatcher number used for custody questions is (830) 879-3041. The sheriff administrative office is listed separately at 101 Courthouse Square with (830) 879-3044. Use that split carefully: same-day custody, booking, bond, release, and inmate-status questions belong with the jail line, while general sheriff administration is a courthouse-office matter.

Official local source points include the La Salle County Sheriff's Office page, the county contact list, and the La Salle County open-records page. The open-records page routes written public-information requests to the county's GovQA system.

The official iSOMS portal can start a county-jail search, but it should not be treated as a complete criminal-history system. It does not cover sentenced TDCJ prisoners at Cotulla Unit, federal prisoners in BOP custody, or immigration detainees searched through ICE ODLS. If the roster does not load or does not answer the custody question, the next official steps are the jail phone line, the county GovQA open-records portal, re:SearchTX or the County/District Clerk for court cases, TDCJ for state prison, BOP for federal prison, ICE ODLS for immigration detention, and VINELink for custody notification.

The official iSOMS portal is shown in the county screenshot captured from the La Salle County Sheriff's Office iSOMS portal.

The visible menu supports the local lookup sequence: current jail first, then the 24-hour or 72-hour intake and release links for very recent activity.

How to Use the La Salle County Inmate Roster

Start at the official iSOMS portal rather than a copied roster or commercial jail directory. If the human check appears, complete it in a normal browser session if possible. If the check blocks access, or if the person was arrested the same day and does not appear yet, call the jail and dispatcher line at (830) 879-3041. Have the person's full legal name, date of birth or age, approximate arrest date, and arresting agency ready before calling.

1. Open the iSOMS portal home page and choose Jail for the current La Salle County Jail roster.
2. Use the Jail Intake/Release last 24 hours link for an arrest or release believed to have happened that day.
3. Use the 72-hour intake/release link if the booking may have occurred during the prior three days.
4. If the online page does not open, call (830) 879-3041 and ask for custody status, booking status, bond information, and any hold that affects release.
5. If a record copy is needed, submit a written request through the county's GovQA open-records portal and describe the exact booking sheet, release entry, incident report, or jail record requested.
6. If the person has moved to state prison, federal custody, or ICE custody, switch to the correct state, federal, or immigration locator instead of continuing to search the county roster.

Same-day arrests can be especially sensitive to timing. A person may be waiting for booking, being medically screened, appearing before a magistrate, held for another agency, released on bond, or transferred. Phone confirmation is the best fallback when a name search and a recent-intake feed do not match what family, counsel, or a bondsman has been told.

La Salle County Roster Search Fields

The accessible iSOMS landing page showed menu links, not a searchable roster form. The research could not verify whether the live roster accepts name search, booking number search, date filters, or profile expansion after the human check. The safest field inventory is therefore limited to what was visible before the gate.

What a La Salle County Inmate Profile Shows

Do not assume that a La Salle iSOMS profile publicly shows every common jail field. The current roster/profile screen was not visible during research, so the exact profile inventory remains unverified. The portal's intake and release links suggest booking and release activity exists online, but the public fields beside each name could not be confirmed.

A jail profile is a custody record, not the final court record. Booking charges can differ from the complaint, information, indictment, dismissal, plea, or sentence later shown in the court file.

Finding County, State, Federal, and ICE Inmates

La Salle County has three important custody systems. The county jail in Cotulla handles local pretrial defendants, sentenced misdemeanants or short jail terms, warrants, parole or TDCJ holds, and any contract or federal holds accepted by the jail. Cotulla Unit is a TDCJ prison for sentenced state inmates. La Salle County Regional Detention Center in Encinal is an immigration and federal detention setting, not a backup county jail roster. The BOP locator covers federal inmates from 1982 to present, while ICE ODLS covers immigration detainees who meet ICE search rules.

La Salle County Jail Facilities

The word "inmate" can point to very different agencies in La Salle County. A person arrested by a local agency typically starts with the county jail. A person serving a state prison sentence belongs in TDCJ records. A person in immigration detention belongs in ICE records. Confirm the facility before using visitation rules, mail rules, bond instructions, or a locator.

Booking Process in La Salle County

A typical local arrest moves from custody to booking. Jail staff confirm identity, create or update the booking record, inventory property, take fingerprints and booking photographs when required, check for warrants or holds, screen for medical and mental-health concerns, and classify the person for housing. The sheriff's official duties include jail operation, inmate safekeeping, commissary operation, courthouse security, process service, and acceptance of bail for prisoners in custody.

After booking, the person may have a magistrate or first appearance where probable cause, warnings, counsel, and bond can be addressed. Formal charges are then reviewed by prosecutors. Misdemeanor prosecution may involve the La Salle County Attorney, while felony prosecution generally runs through the 81st Judicial District Attorney's Office. The booking charge on a jail record can be preliminary, amended, reduced, dismissed, or replaced by the charge filed in court.

The iSOMS 24-hour and 72-hour intake/release links are useful for recent activity, but the county did not publish an exact time-to-display rule on the accessible pages. A fresh arrest may not appear immediately. A release may also be delayed by another warrant, a parole or blue-warrant hold, a TDCJ paperwork issue, an ICE detainer, or a federal hold.

Visitation Hours and Rules

Current official La Salle County pages did not publish a full jail visitation schedule, video vendor, approval process, dress code, visit length, or visitor-list rule. Call (830) 879-3041 before traveling to the jail. Ask whether the person is still in custody, whether visits are in person or video, what identification is required, whether minors may visit, what property is prohibited, and whether the visit must be scheduled in advance.

How to Contact a La Salle County Inmate

Official county pages did not publish a current county-jail mail format, phone vendor, video system, property-release rule, medication procedure, or emergency-message policy. The sheriff page confirms the sheriff operates the jail commissary, but no official fee table or vendor link was located. Use the jail line for mail and phone instructions before sending anything.

For a written records request, use La Salle County's open-records page and the linked GovQA public-information portal. A request should identify the person, date of birth if known, booking date or approximate arrest date, arresting agency, incident or case number if known, and the exact record requested. Useful descriptions include booking sheet, jail roster entry, booking photograph, release date, bond record, or incident report. Texas Public Information Act exceptions may still protect juvenile records, medical data, active investigation information, victim information, sealed records, and expunged records.

Commissary and Inmate Funds

La Salle County official pages did not identify a jail money-deposit vendor, online commissary portal, deposit limit, accepted payment type, or fee schedule. Because custody can change quickly, confirm the person is still housed at the county jail before sending money. Do not use TDCJ eCommDirect for a county jail inmate, and do not use county jail money procedures for a TDCJ prisoner or ICE detainee.