This is a private reference site, not the Elmore County Sheriff's Office, Elmore County Jail, ADOC, a court, or any law-enforcement agency. We cannot confirm whether someone is in custody, release anyone, post bond, approve visits, add money to an account, or pull official booking records. Use the official contacts below for those needs.
Official Offices for Jail and Record Questions
For current county-jail custody, start with Sheriff Bill Franklin's office and the Elmore County Jail. The sheriff contact page also warns that web or email messages are not monitored 24 hours a day; urgent matters require 911 or a phone call.
Elmore County Sheriff's Office
8955 U.S. Highway 231
Wetumpka, AL 36092
Main phone: 334-567-5546
Jail: 334-567-5441
Dispatch / Crime Tips: 334-567-5227
Office hours: Monday-Friday, 8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
Use the list below to choose the right route before sending a request or traveling to an office.
- For someone believed to be held at the Elmore County Jail, use jail inmate records guidance and call the jail line if the roster is offline.
- For booking-photo questions, use jail roster mugshots and verify availability with the sheriff's office because the live roster was offline during research.
- For charges filed after arrest, use court records after a jail arrest and the Alabama trial-court access channels.
- For visiting, mail, deposits, or facility-specific rules, use the detention facility pages listed in the footer.
- For a sentenced state prisoner, use the Alabama Department of Corrections inmate search rather than the county jail roster.
- For federal or immigration custody, use the Federal Bureau of Prisons locator or ICE Online Detainee Locator System.
Alabama public-record requests may rely on Ala. Code Section 36-12-40 and the public-record definition in Section 41-13-1. Law-enforcement investigative records can be limited by Section 12-21-3.1, so some reports, evidence, or active-case details may not be released through a routine request.
Questions about sealing or clearing an Alabama criminal record are legal questions. The expungement statutes in Ala. Code Sections 15-27-1, 15-27-2, and 15-27-6 may be relevant, but a court, attorney, or ALEA resource should be used for actual filing guidance.