Burt County Busted Mugshots and Booking Records
People toss the word “mugshot” around as if it meant one thing. It doesn't. A police department keeps the arrest or incident report. The jail keeps booking paperwork and a custody entry. The camera shot taken at intake is its own item. Once a case reaches court, the court file becomes the record that tracks it. In Burt County, those pieces often sit with different offices. The arrest may start with a town's police force or the Burt County Sheriff's Office, while booking and housing run through Washington County.
The Washington County Justice Center states plainly that it holds people arrested in Burt County. Intake there includes photos and fingerprints, plus internal records carrying charge and bond details. That's the booking process itself. It isn't what the public gets to see. Medical data sits in the same internal system, but it stays off limits for public requests and publication.
Booking records are administrative. A Burt County booking entry simply logs what happened at intake: the name, the mugshot, the booking number, and the charge on the roster at that point.
Busted in Burt, Booked in Washington
The regional setup splits the paper trail. Someone busted in Burt might be arrested by local police or the Burt County Sheriff's Office. Then they're booked and housed over in Washington County. The case may still land in a Burt County courtroom. So an old reference to a “Burt County Jail” won't tell you who holds the person now. Figure out both the arresting agency and the current custodian before you go looking.
No official source publishes a same-day posting lag for Burt. None promises when an entry or photo shows up online. Your best move is simple. Check the dated Washington Jail List for current custody, then call Burt or Washington and ask which office keeps the record you want.
What a Burt Booking Record Can Show
Photographs, fingerprints, charges, and bond information all exist inside the Justice Center's booking process. The public daily list makes no promise to show any of it. What follows is a set of record categories. These could matter for a specific, releasable booking request. It is not a claim that such fields appear on the public roster.
| Record area | Possible releasable detail |
|---|---|
| Identity and event | Name as entered, a lawful alias, booking or inmate number, booking date, arresting agency, facility, and custody or release status. |
| Booking charge | Charge as booked, statute or ordinance reference, bond type or amount, and a case or court date if assigned. |
| Identification | Booking identification photograph, image date, or record references associated with intake, subject to lawful limits. |
| Case follow-through | First appearance, plea, diversion, dismissal, acquittal, conviction, sentence, release, or transfer found through court channels. |
Never assume an internal booking field is a public one. Records touching victims, juveniles, protected addresses, confidential sources, sealed matters, or medical and mental-health conditions may be withheld by law. A targeted request that allows redaction works far better than a blunt demand for everything in a jail file.
Burt County Busted Mugshots Under Record Law
Nebraska Revised Statute §29-3521 lists identification photographs taken during an arrest among public records. Police blotters, offense and incident reports, court records, and wanted lists sit in the same statute. Public status doesn't force an agency to post images online, though. It also can't break through a sealing order, juvenile protections, victim safeguards, confidential information, or any other lawful exemption.
The Washington Jail List is a dated custody document. It advertises no photo field or public image link. That gap is worth understanding. A picture can be snapped at booking and still never appear on a website. If you need an image for a legitimate records purpose, ask the right custodian for the booking identification photograph. If it's withheld, ask for the legal reason. The list is not a photo gallery.
Requesting a Burt Booking Record or Image
Burt County hasn't published a booking-record form, a named records unit, or any fee schedule for records or booking photos. So put your request in writing and keep it precise. Send it to the Burt County Sheriff's Office, 111 North 13th Street, Suite 1, Tekamah, NE 68061. You can also email sheriff@burtcountyne.gov or call (402) 374-2900. If Washington County actually created or holds the booking entry or image, send a copy of the request to that custodian too. Washington Jail Information is (402) 426-6861. The Washington Sheriff's general and nonemergency numbers are (402) 426-6868 and (402) 426-6866.
- Give the full name, known booking or arrest date or date range, and the arresting agency if known.
- Specify whether the request is for an arrest report, booking record, booking identification photograph, or more than one item.
- Ask for an electronic copy when available, releasable portions with exempt material redacted, and identification of the actual custodian if another agency holds the record.
- Reference Nebraska Revised Statutes §§84-712 through 84-712.09, and ask for the statutory basis for a withholding, delay, or cost estimate.
Under §84-712, a written request must be answered as soon as practicable, and generally within four business days. The custodian has a few options. Records can be provided, a delay can be explained with an earliest practicable date, an estimate can be issued, or access can be denied with a legal basis cited. Nebraska's exemptions appear in §84-712.05. Whatever you do, leave medical information and other protected content out of the request.
Burt County Busted Record Status
Nebraska law limits how long busted records stay public. Nebraska §29-3523 sets the rules. Records tied to arrests can stop being public in set situations. No charges filed usually means one year from the arrest, citation, or referral. Completed diversion without charges extends that to two years. Dismissals, acquittals, deferred outcomes, and similar cases hinge on the notice or court action the statute demands. A dismissal alone does not wipe a record clean.
Start with the official custodian when you want a correction or restriction. Give the full name, case number or booking date, record identifier, and any court order that applies. Ask the agency to correct or restrict what the law requires. If a publisher keeps an item that is wrong or restricted, use that publisher's own no-cost correction process. Once the source page changes or vanishes, Google's outdated-content refresh can ask for a recrawl. It cannot touch the record itself.
The statute's full text appears in the record-law source image below. Those limits explain why a search result today may not match a case later on.
Go to the official source first. The arresting agency, booking custodian, or court controls the underlying record. Keep a dated copy of each request and response. Then check the court docket for the real case status.
Search Burt County Busted Mugshots Through Current Custody
Current Burt custody starts with the official Washington County Jail List. The Justice Center expressly houses people from Burt County. The list is a dated document, updated often. It is not a live name search. It is not a full arrest history, a same-day booking feed, or a confirmed photo display. Open the landing page and grab the newest dated file rather than a saved URL.
| Check | How to use the current document |
|---|---|
| Surname | Use the document’s find function, then try a spelling variation or initials where appropriate. |
| Identity | Confirm the name, date, charges as listed, and facility context before treating a match as the same person. |
| Timing | Record the document date. “Updated frequently” does not establish an hourly schedule or a public posting deadline. |
| No result | The person may be released, transferred, not yet listed, cited and released, held under another name, or in another system. |
- Check the newest dated Washington list by surname.
- Confirm the name, initials, document date, charges as listed, and facility.
- If current custody remains unclear, call Washington Jail Information at (402) 426-6861.
- For the local arrest record, historical booking record, or image, contact Burt Sheriff and identify the agency and date.
- Use the court record separately for filing and disposition.
Burt County Busted Jail-List Limits
No Burt County 24-hour, 48-hour, same-day, weekly, or public new-bookings feed was verified. The regional Jail List comes closest as an official current-custody source. Even so, never relabel it as today's arrests. A person can be booked before a dated document catches up. Anyone who bonded out, transferred, or was cited and released may not appear there at all.
The Washington daily Jail List archive holds dated documents with pagination, useful for older snapshots. It promises no fixed retention period. It does not cover every date. There is no multi-day release log and no online history for each person. Washington activity logs belong to Washington County, not Burt. No verified municipal booking blotter exists for Tekamah, Oakland, or Lyons.
Want a past record? Request the underlying booking information instead of assuming an old web document exists. An archived list is just a dated custody snapshot. A formal request and the court record serve a historical question far better.
Burt County Busted Mugshots Beyond Custody
Match the source to the person's current status. The official routes below cover different systems that do not sync instantly. A name match alone proves nothing. Confirm it with identifying record details and court information before calling it a Burt County event.
| Custody state | Official source and limit |
|---|---|
| Regional county custody | Washington County Jail List for current detainees, including people from Burt County; not a complete arrest history or confirmed image display. |
| Nebraska state custody | NDCS Incarcerated Individual Search, using a last name or DCS ID with an optional first name and verification; not a recent county-booking feed or confirmed public photo profile. |
| Federal custody | Bureau of Prisons Inmate Locator for federal custody since 1982; not a Burt local booking source. |
| Immigration custody | ICE Online Detainee Locator; a separate immigration-custody tool, not a local detainer feed. |
The NDCS search form fits once a person enters Nebraska state corrections custody. Full inmate files can hold confidential material, NDCS says. For a specific state-custody record or a releasable image missing from the locator, send a written §84-712 request to DCS.PublicRecords@nebraska.gov, or mail the Public Disclosure Unit, NDCS, PO Box 94661, Lincoln, NE 68509. NDCS works on a four-business-day response framework.
Federal custody works differently. The BOP locator takes a name or register number. It covers federal prisoners from 1982 forward. It cannot confirm current regional custody, a county booking, or how a local case turned out.
The official BOP locator appears below as a federal reference. Confirm any federal result through the right court before calling it a Burt booking.
ICE custody is a separate system. The ICE locator does not prove an immigration hold in Burt County. No local ICE detention feed or immigration booking source surfaced in the available material.
Court Dispositions After a Burt Booking
The booking charge and the court disposition answer different questions. Burt County Court handles misdemeanors and preliminary felony hearings. Its official county page lists (402) 374-2950. The Burt County Clerk of District Court handles felony and general court files at (402) 374-2905. District Court charges $0.25 for photocopies and $1 for certifications. Those are court-copy rates, not booking-photo charges.
Nebraska Judicial Branch JUSTICE case information searches by name, court, case type, county, year, judge, or attorney. Results can include a case summary, offense details, financial information, a register of actions, judge notes, and sometimes documents. The official description lists a $17 one-time name search with up to 30 results for three days. Kiosk and subscriber options exist too. It is a disposition lookup. It is not a jail roster, photo source, or live warrant check.
Read the later record. A first appearance, amended count, diversion, dismissal, acquittal, conviction, or sentence can all differ from what booking listed. Confirm the person, county, case type, and docket before drawing any conclusions.
Burt County Busted Records and Retention
Juvenile files sit in a different category from routine arrest content. Nebraska's county-sheriff retention schedule keeps a juvenile case file for five years past the offender's 19th birthday when the matter stayed in juvenile court. Move it to adult court and it lands in adult files instead. Confidentiality rules, sealing, and §29-3523 can all restrict access further. A booking photo from a juvenile case simply isn't ordinary public material.
Schedule 15 sets management periods for sheriff records. Fingerprint files with mugshot ID material stay on hand 20 years in felony cases and 10 in misdemeanors. Jail incident reports get five years. Jail registers are kept 25 years after the last entry. None of this promises anything is online; it just says how long paper and files survive. Since a regional booking may be held by Washington County, always ask which office and record series applies.
For deep history, the Nebraska prisoner-record database reaches roughly 1870 to 1990, though it has gaps. The Burt digital newspaper archive is a good lead on old crime news, not an official booking record. And a file being retained doesn't mean a photo or roster entry is still posted anywhere public.
Busted Mugshots by City in Burt County
Burt’s city pages follow the same records chain while keeping the local agency clear:
- Tekamah Busted Mugshots: Tekamah is the county seat; Tekamah Police Department arrests generally move through the Burt and Washington booking chain.
- Oakland: Oakland Police Department arrests use the same Washington County custody path unless another agency holds the person.
- Lyons: Lyons Police Department arrests use county dispatch and the same Burt and Washington booking chain; city alerts do not provide booking records.
City police contacts can help you trace where a report started. None of the three city pages offers a verified daily arrest blotter or a public booking-photo listing, though. For someone in custody now, the question runs through the Washington list. For a past arrest, it runs through the record custodian and the court.
Burt County Booking Alerts and Notifications
The Burt Sheriff page promotes AlertSense and links VINELink. Each has a real job. AlertSense handles emergency and community notifications. VINELink covers custody status and victim notification wherever a participating facility exists. Neither one is a Burt booking app, a live roster, a photo feed, or a social-media channel for new arrests.
No official Burt mobile jail app or booking-photo app turned up, and no verified social posting practice for new bookings exists either. Notifications serve their purpose. But for current custody, verify through the Washington list, Jail Information, the relevant court, or the records custodian.
Burt County Crime Commission Arrest Data
Nebraska's Crime Commission arrest query lets you slice by county, agency, year, month, and adult or juvenile. A separate jail-data query supports broader jail research. Both are useful for spotting trends. The state cautions that figures may be incomplete or change over time. No Burt annual total appears here because no number was pulled from the state sources.
Statistics can't tell you who is behind bars right now, whether a booking photo can be released, or how a case ended. Those questions need the dated current roster, a specific records request, and the court file.
Older Burt Jail References and Current Washington Housing
Older county planning material points to a courthouse-centered Burt County Jail. Today's official Washington Justice Center information states plainly that it houses people from Burt County. That's why a search for "Burt County Jail" keeps landing on old addresses or third-party directories that no longer match reality. Confirm current custody with the Justice Center or the sheriff rather than an outdated facility reference.
The sources don't reveal when or why the housing arrangement changed. They do make the right contacts clear. Washington handles current regional jail custody. Burt or the arresting agency holds the local record. The appropriate court handles disposition.
Burt County Booking-Photo Fee Estimates
Burt County publishes no booking-photo fee. Under the public-record framework, a custodian may charge actual added costs as the statute allows. So ask for an estimate. Don't guess. The District Court clerk's rates, $0.25 per photocopy and $1 for certification, cover court copies only. They don't apply to a sheriff or Washington booking image. An electronic copy can be requested, but no local source guarantees a delivery method or an image price.
Burt County Official Mugshot Sources
Start with official channels: the Washington Jail List, Burt Sheriff, the right city police department, court records, and state or federal custody tools. Third-party sites are unofficial. They can be stale, incomplete, or wrong about who's who. They never substitute for an agency or court record. Mugshots.com's Nebraska index carries a Burt County entry with a count of 168, though the Burt endpoint itself doesn't load reliably. That shifting display is not a headcount of current inmates or a verified local roster.
Busted Newspaper and RecentlyBooked's Nebraska lists show no Burt section. No Burt-local Arrests.org or Mugshots Zone section is verified either. NebraskaArrests.org offers a Burt browse lead, but it's a separate unofficial domain with no stable Burt page, no stated image policy, and no confirmed update pattern. For reporting leads, the Burt County Independent and the local newspaper archive can help. Whatever you find, check the name, date, charge, and outcome against the originating office and the court.