Tate County Jail Mugshots
The official Tate County jail roster displays booking images for many inmate entries. The roster is operated through the Tate County Sheriff's Office and its OCV feed. Research found that the feed includes an images array for each inmate entry, with small and large image URLs when a booking image is present. Other entries use a missing-image-profile placeholder, so the public roster should not be read as a promise that every listed person will have a photo. No separate Tate County mugshot gallery, daily booking-photo PDF, or official historical mugshot archive was located.
Booking photos are tied to local custody records. They appear with fields such as name, age, race, sex when populated, booking date, charge descriptions, bond type, and bond amount. The public roster is useful for current or recent custody, but it is not a final criminal-history record. A charge listed beside a photo can later be amended, reduced, dismissed, or replaced by a formal court filing. The court case, not the booking image, controls the long-term legal status.
The official Tate County inmate roster is the primary place where public booking images appear.
The screenshot shows the official roster context for booking photos, which is more reliable than using commercial reposting sites.
Find Tate County Booking Photos
Tate County booking photos should be checked through official sources first. The sheriff roster is the public starting point, and the Tate County Sheriff MS app appears to use the same OCV roster feed. If the photo is missing online, the researched fallback is a public-records request to the Sheriff's Office. Calling the jail can help confirm whether the person is still in custody or whether a record request is the right next step, but the jail phone should not be treated as a photo-copy service unless staff gives those instructions.
- Open the Tate County jail roster from the sheriff website or the sheriff app roster link.
- Search by last name and review recent booking entries because the roster feed is configured in date-descending order.
- Open the inmate card and look for the image field, booking date, Information block, Charge(s), bond type, and bond amount.
- If a placeholder appears, call Tate County Jail at 662-562-5466 to confirm custody before making a written request.
- For a copy not online, submit a Mississippi Public Records Act request to the Tate County Sheriff's Office with the person's name and approximate booking date.
Current custody can change fast. A person may be released, transferred, or moved to another system before a user finishes searching. For full custody details beyond the photo field, the broader Tate County inmate records page explains the roster, phone, in-person, records request, MDOC, VINELink, BOP, ICE, and sheriff app channels.
Tate County Photo Field Inventory
The Tate County OCV feed is useful because it shows what sits beside a booking photo. Research observed real image URLs for some entries and the missing-image placeholder for others. One observed entry, REED, DARIKE DION, had a real image URL, age, race, sex shown as N/A, a booking date, three charge rows, and bond amounts. Another observed entry, KING, DONTRELL KERRION, used the missing-image placeholder while still showing age, race, booking date, charge, and bond amount. Names here are examples from the research inspection and should not be treated as current custody without checking the live roster.
| Field | What It Shows |
|---|---|
| Booking Photo | Real image from the OCV image host when available, or a missing-image-profile placeholder. |
| Name | Public roster title in LAST, FIRST MIDDLE format. |
| Age | Numeric age. Date of birth was not shown in the inspected feed. |
| Race | One-letter race code such as B or W when populated. |
| Sex | Visible field that may show a value or N/A. |
| Booking Date | Full booking date and time in the roster entry. |
| Charge(s) | Each charge row can include a code or shorthand plus a charge description. |
| Bond Type and Amount | Per-charge bond details such as Surety, Cash, ROR, No Bond, N/A, and listed dollar amounts. |
The OCV roster feed backs the sheriff's public list and shows why the photo field should be read with the surrounding record fields.
The feed context helps separate official booking-photo access from unrelated wanted-person images or third-party reposts.
Tate County Mugshot Public Records
Mississippi law should be stated carefully. The Mississippi Public Records Act says public records are available for inspection unless another law provides otherwise. Research did not locate a Mississippi statute that creates a statewide right to permanent online mugshot posting, and no statewide pre-conviction mugshot ban was located. For Tate County, that means booking-photo access should be framed as sheriff roster practice and public-record request practice, not as a guarantee that every photo must remain online forever.
Key Statutes:
Mississippi Code Section 25-61-1 states the state's public-records policy and supports inspection of public records unless another law limits access.
Mississippi Code Section 25-61-7 allows reasonable costs for search, review, redaction, copying, and delivery of public records.
Mississippi Code Section 99-19-71 is the expunction statute for eligible Mississippi records.
A sheriff may withhold, redact, or delay a booking-photo record if a separate law, court order, juvenile rule, expunction order, or active-investigation concern applies. Fees may apply for copies or staff time. The public roster offers online access for some photos without a request, but that does not remove the need to use formal records channels when a photo is absent or older than the current roster.
Public and Not Public
Tate County jail mugshots need a factual frame. A booking image may be visible on the official roster because it is part of a jail intake record. That image still reflects an arrest or custody event, not a conviction. Some entries have no public image and use a placeholder. The roster does not publish date of birth, full physical description, housing unit, arresting agency, court date, case number, warrant number, or final case result in the inspected feed.
What is and isn't public: The public can see roster images when Tate County posts them, plus listed booking and charge fields. Records may be absent, redacted, sealed, expunged, delayed, or replaced by a placeholder when the sheriff does not publish a photo online.
The roster also differs from the sheriff's Most Wanted feature. Most Wanted images are wanted-person notices, not a booking-photo archive. A person may appear in a wanted feed without being in current jail custody, and a current inmate may have a booking image without appearing in a Most Wanted item. Do not mix the two record types.
Request Tate County Booking Photo
If a booking photo is not on the roster, the researched request path is the Tate County Sheriff's Office. No dedicated online booking-record request form was found in the sheriff manifest or county pages. A written Mississippi Public Records Act request should name the person, give the approximate booking date, identify the record sought as a booking photo or booking record, and ask for any releasable copy. The request should be sent to the record holder, usually the Sheriff's Office for jail booking records.
Mississippi public-records sources state that response timing can depend on the public body's policy and the request itself. Research found a Mississippi Ethics Commission order involving a Tate County Sheriff's Office records complaint in which the requester's own letter allowed 14 working days, and the complaint was dismissed because no violation had occurred at filing. That order should not be read to mean every sheriff request always takes 14 days. It does show why clear request dates, contact information, and record descriptions matter.
The Mississippi Ethics Commission public-records page is the state-level reference for the public-records act.
That public-records source is the fallback when the official roster does not provide the booking photo a requester needs.
Tate County Mugshot Removal
No Tate County policy on removing booking photos after dismissal, acquittal, or expunction was found in the official sources inspected. Mississippi's expunction law may restore eligible records legally, but the proper route is the court expunction process followed by contact with the record-holding agency using the signed order. A person seeking removal from an official sheriff record should not rely on payment-based third-party promises. Official records change through court orders, agency correction, or lawful redaction, not through commercial reposting claims.
Expunction is different from deletion from every place online. A court order can affect eligible official records, but other copies may have been saved elsewhere. For formal case status, dismissal, indictment, conviction, or expunction questions, check court files rather than the photo field. The page about court records after a jail arrest is the more useful route when the question is whether charges were filed, changed, dismissed, or sealed.
State Federal Mugshot Limits
County booking photos are not the same as state or federal inmate images. The MDOC locator is for sentenced or supervised state offenders, not current Tate County pretrial bookings. A person may disappear from the county roster after sentencing and transfer, then become searchable through MDOC. MDOC should be used for state custody and supervision information, while the county roster should be used for current local booking and bond rows.
BOP and ICE locators also work differently. BOP records cover federal inmates from 1982 to present, but federal locators generally do not publish county-style booking mugshots. ICE's locator applies to people currently in ICE custody or in CBP custody more than 48 hours and searches by A-number and country or by biographical data. No BOP, ICE, or U.S. Marshals detention facility was located inside Tate County, so those systems are alternate lookup paths, not local mugshot galleries.
- Mugshot
- A booking photograph created during jail intake when the jail records a custody event.
- Booking charge
- The charge or hold listed by the jail at intake. It may differ from a later court filing.
- Expunction
- A court process that can clear eligible Mississippi records from public access under state law.
- Placeholder
- A missing-image profile used when the public roster does not publish a real booking photo.