Orleans Parish Jail Roster
The official Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office detainee materials start at the OPSO detainees page. That page links to detainee search, detainee visitation, attorney visitation, regular visitation, detainee information, commissary, mail instructions, programs, Travis Hill School, the Chaplain's Office, and a phone-search channel. The public web search link points to the OPSO detainee lookup portal, while LA VINE provides a roster and victim-notification route that uses jail roster data.
Custody records are not the same as court records. A roster entry may show a charge, bond, arrest date, or attachment label, but the final case status, plea, judgment, sentence, or dismissal is kept by Municipal and Traffic Court, Criminal District Court, or another court. If a person has left local custody for a state facility, use the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections offender information channel rather than OPSO alone.
The manifest image for OPSO detainee information comes from the official sheriff source: OPSO detainee information.
That sheriff source is the local starting point for Orleans Parish inmate and detainee services.
Use Orleans Parish Inmate Search
The main search path is the OPSO-linked detainee search portal. The research file also identifies the OPSO phone IVR and LA VINE roster channel. If the web search is unavailable, the phone lookup is not a duplicate extra. It is a real alternate access route because the sheriff page says callers enter two digits for the last name and two digits for the first name.
- Open the OPSO detainee page and choose the detainee search link, or go directly to the OPSO-linked portal.
- Search by the available name fields. If using the phone IVR, enter the two requested digits for last name and first name.
- Compare the result against date of birth, gender, race, booking identifiers, and charge details where shown.
- Check LA VINE if victim notification, roster refresh information, or registration against an offender is needed.
- Use Louisiana DPS&C offender information when the person has moved from parish jail to state custody.
The OPSO detainee search portal appears in the manifest as an official linked inmate lookup source: OPSO detainee search portal.
Use exact name details when possible because custody searches can miss a person if spelling, aliases, or recent booking status differ.
Orleans Parish Inmate Fields
The research confirms both web and phone fields, but the public materials do not define every hidden search rule inside the portal. LA VINE also operates as a roster and notification system. Its LCLE description says roster data is drawn from each jail's jail management system and updated every 30 minutes, with offender data such as date of birth, gender, and race.
| Field Label | Type | Required | Options / Format Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detainee name | Text | Unspecified | Official OPSO web portal is linked as Detainee Search. |
| First name digits | Phone keypad | Yes for IVR | OPSO phone search asks for two digits for first name. |
| Last name digits | Phone keypad | Yes for IVR | OPSO phone search asks for two digits for last name. |
| Roster agency | Roster selection / link | Implicit | Orleans.LAVINE.org is the Orleans Parish LA VINE roster channel. |
| Victim registration | Link / control | Optional | LCLE says a user may register against an offender through LA VINE. |
Note: A roster refresh does not mean the court case file has updated at the same time.
Inmate Profile Inventory
An Orleans Parish inmate profile can provide enough information to route the next question, but it should not be read as a final criminal history. A charge in custody data may still be pending, amended, dismissed, or resolved later in court. The field inventory below follows the OPSO-linked detainee search and LA VINE descriptions gathered in the research file.
| Field | What It Shows |
|---|---|
| Name | The detainee name shown in the roster or search result. |
| Booking / jail ID | A numeric custody identifier when the result format provides one. |
| Race | Race field described by the LA VINE roster source. |
| Sex / gender | Gender or sex field described by the LA VINE roster source. |
| Date of birth | DOB used to distinguish people with similar names. |
| Booking or arrest date | Date tied to a custody event or charge row when displayed. |
| Charge | Charge code, statute, and plain-language charge when available. |
| Bond | Bond amount or no-bond status if the custody result displays it. |
| Warrant / attachment indicators | Labels such as municipal or traffic attachment, fugitive, probation violation, contempt, or court order arrest. |
| Victim notification | LA VINE registration option against an offender. |
Orleans Parish Custody Contacts
The research did not verify separate public facility capacities or a full list of jail buildings with independent public visiting hours. The official source set identifies OPSO as the custody source, gives the sheriff phone from Criminal District Court contacts, and documents detainee service pages. For records and service questions, use the custody source that matches the need rather than a court clerk.
Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office
Official custody and detainee service source
New Orleans, LA
(504) 822-8000
Use OPSO detainee pages for current service links and rules.
OPSO Detainee Search by Phone
Interactive Voice Response name lookup
Enter two digits of last name and first name
Use the official OPSO phone-search page
Best when the web portal is not available.
Louisiana DPS&C Offender Information
State custody after parish transfer
Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections
Use the state offender information page
Not a parish jail roster.
The Louisiana DPS&C source in the manifest is the correct follow-up after transfer to state custody: DPS&C offender information.
That distinction keeps Orleans Parish jail custody separate from longer-term state imprisonment.
Visitation and Service Schedule
OPSO maintains separate links for detainee visitation, attorney visitation, and regular visitation. The accessible research confirmed that all visitors must read and accept visitation rules before proceeding to registration. It did not confirm a public day-by-day schedule or fixed hours. For that reason, the schedule table below preserves the official service categories without inventing times.
| Service | Official Finding | Timing Status |
|---|---|---|
| Detainee visitation | OPSO detainee page links a detainee visitation service. | Current schedule must be confirmed through OPSO registration. |
| Regular visitation | OPSO has a regular visitation page; accessible capture showed title and navigation only. | No source-backed hours found. |
| Attorney visitation | OPSO has a dedicated attorney visitation page; accessible capture showed title and navigation only. | No source-backed hours found. |
| Mail instructions | OPSO links mail instructions for detainees. | Rules should be checked on the current OPSO page before mailing. |
| Commissary deposits | OPSO identifies Access Corrections, kiosks, and phone deposits. | Deposit availability should be confirmed with the provider. |
The OPSO commissary page is represented by this Orleans Parish inmate records image.
Commissary is a detainee service channel, not a court-record request channel.
Detainee Mail and Money
The OPSO detainee materials confirm several service routes but do not expose all rules in the captured text. Commissary deposits may be made online through Access Corrections, at kiosk locations, or by phone with a live bilingual agent. The official materials also identify mail instructions, communicate-with-detainees support information, detainee programs, Travis Hill School, and chaplain services.
Do not send money, mail, photos, documents, or legal material based only on a third-party summary. Use the current OPSO service page before mailing or paying because jail rules can change and may depend on custody status. For phone search, use the IVR route when the web roster is unavailable or when only partial name information is known.
- Detainee
- A person held in local custody, often while a charge, bond, hold, or court matter is pending.
- Roster
- A jail list that identifies people currently in custody or recently tracked through jail data.
- Bond
- Money or a release obligation tied to future court appearance, if the court has set one.
- Hold
- A custody reason that may come from another court, agency, warrant, or probation matter.
Inmates and Court Records
Booking data can help locate the right Orleans Parish court record. Traffic and municipal attachments often route to Municipal and Traffic Court. Felony and other criminal prosecution records usually route to the Clerk of Criminal District Court at 2700 Tulane Avenue, where criminal documents, certified documents, dispositions, background checks, and expungement records are handled. Civil matters, divorce, probate, land records, and most civil certified copies route to the Clerk of Civil District Court instead.
If a custody record shows "ATTACH - MUN OR TRAFFIC ATTACHMENT," fugitive, contempt, violation of probation, or court order arrest, the next step is to identify the issuing court. If the inmate record shows only a charge description, use the court case search or clerk contact to determine whether charges were filed, amended, dismissed, or resolved. A roster charge is not the same as a conviction.
Municipal and Traffic Court records may be searched by case number, name, or date of birth, and records requests may be sent to MTCNOClerk@nola.gov with the defendant's full name, aliases, DOB, violation or arrest dates, violation description, and forwarding email or mailing address. Criminal District Court records are different. They move through the criminal clerk, judge section, docket entries, motions, bond activity, pleas, disposition, sentencing, and expungement files. For inmate research, that means the custody record is often the first clue, while the court record is the source for formal case action.
OPSO and LA VINE also cannot replace police report channels. NOPD police and accident reports use the City police-records route, while OPSO custody tools show detention status and jail service details. When a person is no longer in Orleans Parish custody, state custody should be checked through DPS&C offender information. These separate channels prevent one common mistake: treating a missing jail roster result as proof that no case, warrant, sentence, or state custody record exists.
Note: For victim notification, use LA VINE registration rather than relying on repeated manual roster searches.