This is a private reference site, not a government office. We cannot confirm custody, release a person, post bond, or retrieve an official booking record. Contact the responsible public office directly for those services.
Official Clay County Contacts
Clay County has no verified public web roster and no published Sheriff records email, records-desk hours, local booking-photo fee, or production promise. Call before visiting and ask how the custodian currently accepts a written records request.
Clay County Sheriff’s Office and Justice Center
611 East Jackson StreetBrazil, IN 47834
Phone: 812-446-2535
Hours: Call to confirm current records access hours and submission instructions.
Clay County Clerk
Clay County Courthouse, Room 209609 East National Avenue
Brazil, IN 47834
Phone: 812-448-9024
The courts share the courthouse address. Clay Circuit Court is in Room 314 at 812-448-9036, and Clay Superior Court is in Room 203 at 812-448-9031.
- For a booking record or intake photo, use the request steps on the home page and contact the Sheriff.
- For a warrant concern, use Most Wanted, then confirm with the Clerk and Sheriff.
- For recent arrest research, roster alternatives, release alerts, or correction and removal law, begin at the Clay County search hub.
- For a sentenced state prisoner, use the Indiana Department of Correction offender search.
- For federal prison custody, use the BOP locator. Immigration custody belongs in the ICE locator, even when a person is housed at the Justice Center.