This is a private reference site, not a government office. It cannot confirm whether someone is in custody, release anyone, post bond, pull official booking records, change a court date, or contact the jail for you. Use the official Rush County and state or federal contacts below for those actions.
Where to Ask for the Right Record
Rush County's official sources did not publish a separate jail records desk, booking desk number, or jail lobby hours. The researched local jail contact is the Rush County Sheriff's Office, which operates the county jail / holding facility. Custody records and court records are separate, so filed charges, hearings, warrants, and case status may also require the court or prosecutor contacts below.
Rush County Sheriff's OfficeSheriff Mark Knowles
715 Elm, PO Box 495
LaCrosse, KS 67548
Phone: 785-222-2578
Fax: 785-222-3328
Email: sheriff@rushcountykansas.gov
For courthouse business, the Kansas Judicial Branch lists Rush County Courthouse public hours as 8 a.m. to noon and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Court hours are not confirmed jail lobby hours, so call the sheriff before traveling for a jail records request, bond question, visit, or property issue.
Rush County District CourtClerk Erin Werth
715 Elm, PO Box 387
LaCrosse, KS 67548
Phone: 785-222-2718
Fax: 785-222-2748 Rush County Attorney
Tony W. Rues
111 W 3rd St, PO Box 780
LaCrosse, KS 67548
Phone: 785-222-3736
Fax: 785-222-3735
Email: trues@rushcountykansas.gov
- For someone believed to be in the county jail, start with the Rush County Sheriff's Office and the jail inmate records guidance.
- For a booking photo request, use the sheriff contact above and the jail roster mugshots page. Kansas guidance treats roster reports differently from mugshots.
- For charges filed after an arrest, use court records after a jail arrest, Kansas Case Search, and the Rush County District Court clerk.
- For the local facility page, use Rush County Jail / Rush County Sheriff's Office holding facility.
- For a sentenced Kansas state prisoner, use KASPER through the Kansas Department of Corrections.
- For county-jail custody notifications, use Kansas VINE online or by phone at 1-866-574-7463. Kansas VINE does not cover KDOC state-prison offenders.
- For a sentenced federal prisoner, use the Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate locator.
- For immigration detention, use ICE's Online Detainee Locator System and ICE facility directory.