Pope County Jail Mugshots
Official research did not find a Pope County, Minnesota mugshot gallery, recent-bookings photo feed, or Pope-specific jail roster on the county sheriff's site. The practical roster path is the Douglas County Inmate Roster, which has shown entries with "Arresting Agency: POPE COUNTY." That roster can help identify a currently housed person, booking date, charges, arresting agency, and status, but the visible text capture did not document mugshots, prior booking photos, photo angles, or a photo-history field.
Minnesota law still matters. A booking photograph is generally public data under Minn. Stat. section 13.82, subdivision 26, unless a law-enforcement agency temporarily withholds access because release would adversely affect an active investigation. For Pope County jail mugshots, the core question is not only whether a photo is public. It is which agency has the photo and whether it appears online.
Request Pope County Booking Photos
Start with current custody because the booking-photo request works best when the booking record can be identified. If the person is listed on the Douglas County roster with a Pope County arresting agency, Douglas County Jail or Douglas County Sheriff's Records may hold the jail booking record. If Pope County created the arrest record or transport data, the Pope County Sheriff's Office is the local records contact under the county's data-practices policy.
- Search the Douglas County roster for the person and check whether the entry is tied to Pope County.
- If no photo appears online, identify who created or maintains the booking record.
- Ask for the public booking photograph and related public arrest or booking data.
- Cite Minnesota's booking-photo rule and law-enforcement data rule if the request needs a legal reference.
- Expect possible temporary withholding if the agency says release would harm an active investigation.
- Pay allowed copy or actual-cost fees if the agency must produce copies, photos, employee time, electronic transmission, or mailing.
Pope County's public data policy lists a copy rate of 25 cents per one-sided black-and-white page for 100 or fewer paper copies, with actual cost for other materials and staff time where allowed. A photo request may not price like a paper page. Ask the records office for the cost before ordering copies.
Pope County Photo Record Fields
A booking photo is an identification image connected to an arrest or booking. It is not proof of guilt. The public roster fields around the photo, if any photo is produced or displayed, should be read with the same limits as the jail record itself. Charge labels on a roster can differ from the formal charges filed later in court.
| Field | What It Shows |
|---|---|
| Booking Photo | No online Pope County gallery was found, and the captured Douglas roster text did not document visible photos. |
| Name | Public roster identity line, usually in a last-name-first style. |
| Booking Date / Booking Time | When jail booking occurred, not always the exact arrest time. |
| Charges | Arrest or booking charge descriptions. Court charges may later differ. |
| Arresting Agency | The agency tied to the booking entry, including Pope County on inspected roster records. |
| Status | Custody or case-related jail status such as Bail Set, Sentenced, Remand-Custody, or Unsent Boarder. |
| Bond / Housing / Court Date | These were not visible in the sampled roster text. Use jail staff, MCRO, or the court calendar for confirmation. |
Pope County Mugshot Law
Minnesota treats booking photos as a defined category of law-enforcement data. The statute describes a booking photograph as a photograph or electronically produced image taken by law enforcement for identification purposes in connection with an arrest. Except as otherwise provided, it is public data. The same law allows temporary withholding if the agency determines access would adversely affect an active investigation.
Key Statutes:
Minn. Stat. section 13.82 governs law-enforcement data, including booking photographs and public arrest data.
Minn. Stat. section 13.03 states the general rule that government data are public unless a law classifies them otherwise.
The law does not mean every Pope County booking photo has an official public web page. Public data can still require a records request when a county or jail does not publish the photo online.
Pope County Mugshot Limits
No research source documented how long a Pope County booking photo stays online because no Pope County online mugshot gallery was found. The Douglas County roster was the practical current-custody path, but its visible text did not show a mugshot field with image detail. For that reason, do not rely on the roster as a guaranteed photo source. Use it to identify the person, booking, arresting agency, and status before making a records request.
What is and isn't public: Minnesota booking photos are generally public data, but an agency may temporarily withhold a photo for active-investigation reasons. Medical data, protected personal data, investigative material, and some corrections data may remain private or unavailable online.
Pope County Mugshot Contacts
The right contact depends on who has the record. If Douglas County Jail booked and housed the person, start with Douglas County records or the jail. If Pope County created arrest data or has the public record under its own files, use Pope County's data-practices process. If a photo relates to a court outcome, the image itself is still usually a law-enforcement or jail record, while the formal charge and disposition are court records.
Douglas County Jail
509 3rd Avenue West
Alexandria, MN 56308
(320) 762-2139
Current custody and booking-photo questions for people housed there.
Pope County Sheriff's Office
130 E. Minnesota Avenue
Glenwood, MN 56334
(320) 634-5411
Arrest, transport, warrant, and Pope County public-data request questions.
Pope County Charges and Photos
A mugshot does not prove a charge, conviction, sentence, or current custody. It only shows that a booking photograph was taken for identification in connection with an arrest or booking. The jail roster can show an arrest or booking charge. The court case shows prosecutor-filed charges, amendments, dismissals, pleas, sentencing, and hearing history. Use court records after a jail arrest to check the formal case.
For custody status, use jail inmate records and the jail phone line. For formal criminal-case data, use MCRO or Pope County District Court. Keeping those sources separate prevents a common mistake: treating an old booking photo as proof that a person remains in custody or was convicted of every charge first listed at booking.
Pope County Mugshot Removal
Research did not locate a Pope County policy promising automatic online booking-photo removal after dismissal. Minnesota automatic expungement is governed by Minn. Stat. section 609A.015 and related expungement laws. Expungement can make eligible records private or sealed from public view, depending on the case and process. A person with an expungement order should provide the order to the agency that maintains the booking photo and ask how it applies to the photo and any roster history.
Do not use unofficial photo takedown promises as a substitute for a court order or agency correction process. The official path is to resolve the court record, obtain any eligible expungement or sealing relief, then contact the record-holding agency with the case number, booking information, and order.
State and Federal Mugshots
The Minnesota DOC public offender locator is for adults committed to the Commissioner of Corrections. It is separate from county jail booking. Newly sentenced people may take several business days to appear there, and a Pope County jail booking photo is not the same as a DOC profile image or supervision record.
The Federal Bureau of Prisons locator, U.S. Marshals custody channels, and ICE Online Detainee Locator System are also separate from Pope County jail mugshots. BOP and U.S. Marshals generally do not publish routine federal mugshots in public inmate locators, and ICE's locator is not a mugshot gallery. Use these systems only when the person has moved out of local jail custody into federal or immigration custody.