This is a private reference site, not the Dawson County Sheriff's Office, Dawson County Jail, a court clerk, or a government records office. We cannot confirm custody, confirm release, post bond, change a jail record, pull an official booking file, or certify court records. Use the official office or locator listed for the record you need.
Where to Start for a Dawson County Record
For current local custody or a booking record, begin with the sheriff and jail contact published by Dawson County. The research did not locate a separate jail records-unit number, jail information line, public lobby schedule, or Dawson-specific online records form, so the main sheriff and jail phone is the local contact point.
Dawson County Sheriff's Office / Dawson County JailSheriff Matt Hogg
400 S 1st St
Lamesa, TX 79331
Phone: 806-872-7560
Fax: 806-872-9396
Official page: Dawson County Sheriff's Office
No official Dawson County jail lobby hours were located in the research file. Call before traveling for custody questions, bonding, visitation, booking photo requests, mail, money, property, or public-information requests.
- For someone held at the county jail, use jail inmate records, the sheriff phone channel, VINELink Texas, or a Texas Public Information Act request.
- For booking photos, use jail roster mugshots and ask the sheriff how to request a booking photo or booking packet.
- For charges filed after an arrest, use court records after a jail arrest, re:SearchTX, and the correct clerk or court office.
- For a specific local facility, use the footer links for Dawson County Jail and Preston E. Smith Unit.
- For a sentenced state prisoner, use the Texas Department of Criminal Justice inmate search. Smith Unit is a TDCJ prison, not a county jail roster entry.
- For federal or immigration custody, use the Federal Bureau of Prisons locator, the U.S. Marshals Northern District of Texas for federal pretrial context, or ICE ODLS for immigration detention.
Clerk and Court Routing
Do not ask the sheriff for certified court-case documents. After charges are filed, the record belongs with the court or clerk that handles that case type.
- Dawson County District Clerk: district-court and felony-file routing.
- Dawson County County Clerk: county-level records where that office maintains the file.
- Dawson County Justice of the Peace: JP and local magistrate matters, including some Class C or warrant-related questions.
- re:SearchTX: statewide participating-court search, with coverage and detail access varying by court.
- Texas DPS Conviction Name Search: statewide conviction-history searching after disposition, not a live jail roster.