This is a private reference site, not a government office. It cannot confirm custody or release, free anyone, post bond, or retrieve an official booking record. Contact the agency that holds the record for those services.
Official Rush County Contacts
Choose the office based on the event being checked. Published records hours and fees were not found for the Sheriff or District Court, so call before visiting and request a cost estimate when copies are needed.
Rush County Sheriff
Sheriff Mark Knowles
715 Elm, PO Box 495
La Crosse, KS 67548
Phone: 785-222-2578
Fax: 785-222-3328
Email: sheriff@rushcountykansas.gov
Records hours and fees: not published
Rush County District Court
Clerk Erin Werth
PO Box 387
La Crosse, KS 67548
Phone: 785-222-2718
Fax: 785-222-2748
Email: Erin.Werth@kscourts.gov
Local hours and fees: not published
Kansas Supervision Contacts
KDOC parole or postrelease supervision and court-based community corrections use separate offices in Rush County matters.
Great Bend Parole Office
1806 12th Street
Great Bend, KS 67530
Phone: 620-727-6836
Automated reporting: 866-570-7225
Covers Barton, Pawnee, and Rush counties
24th Judicial District Community Corrections
202 W. Sycamore Street, Suite 17
Ness City, KS 67560
Phone: 785-798-3695
Fax: 785-798-3839
Email: ccso24th@gbta.net
Verify the contact from the 2024 directory before visiting.
Release and Notification Offices
State sentence questions, parole-board matters, and county-jail alerts also have distinct channels.
- KDOC Sentence Computation: 785-296-3317 for a person-specific state release-date calculation.
- KASPER accuracy comments: kdoc_pub@ks.gov.
- Prisoner Review Board: 714 SW Jackson Street, Suite 300, Topeka, KS 66603; KDOC_PRB_Public_Comment@ks.gov for public comment.
- Kansas VINE: 1-866-574-8463; TTY 1-866-847-1298; Kansas VINELink portal.
Rush County Transportation
Rush County Public Transportation is at 804 W. 1st in La Crosse and can be reached at 785-222-3537. It runs Monday through Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., with no evening, weekend, courthouse-holiday, or unsafe-road service. Service is first come, first served and is not a dedicated jail pickup. Published fares are $2 within La Crosse, $5 within the county, $8 for Tuesday Hays and last-Tuesday Great Bend trips, and $20 on other unscheduled out-of-county service days. The stated service radius is 60 miles, and some trips require a price call. Availability is not guaranteed.
Where to Look First
The record type determines the right route.
- For a released person or release record, start with the full Rush County search and records path.
- For post-release supervision, use the Parole & Probation resource.
- For someone who may have left county custody today, check the 24-Hour Release List fallback process.
- For a state sentence estimate or county alert, use Projected Release Date or the VINELink Check.
- For Rush County Jail contact and release routing, use the facility page linked below.
- For a sentenced Kansas prisoner, use KASPER through KDOC.
- For federal prison or immigration custody, use the BOP or ICE locator for that custodian.