This is a private reference site, not a government office. We cannot confirm custody or release, free anyone, post bond, or pull or retrieve official records.
Official Gulf County Contacts
Send the question to the office that created the record. The Gulf County Detention Facility can route an immediate local custody question, while GCSO Records handles sheriff and jail booking or release records. The Clerk supplies court dockets and judgments. Florida state-prison and supervision records belong to the Florida Department of Corrections.
Gulf County Detention Facility
1000 Cecil G. Costin Sr. Boulevard
Port St. Joe, FL 32456
Phone: (850) 227-1124
Fax: (850) 564-7508
Email: gulfcountyjail@gulfcounty-fl.gov
No public records-counter hours or fixed fee schedule were located. Call first.
GCSO Records
418 Cecil G. Costin Sr. Boulevard
Port St. Joe, FL 32456
Phone: (850) 227-1115, option 5
Fax: (850) 227-2097
Email: publicrecords@gcso.fl.gov
Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Eastern, except holidays. The office reviews each request and provides a cost estimate when fees apply. Its public-record request page explains the available delivery methods.
Gulf County Clerk of Court
1000 Cecil G. Costin Sr. Boulevard, Room 148
Port St. Joe, FL 32456
Phone: (850) 229-6112 or (850) 639-5068
Extension 2305: misdemeanor, traffic, and juvenile records
Extension 2310: felony and appeals
Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Eastern. Use the Clerk’s record search for the court docket and disposition.
Florida Department of Corrections
Bureau of Admission and Release: (850) 488-9167
Email: dc.release@fdc.myflorida.com
Classification and Central Records: (850) 488-9859
Email: central.classification@fdc.myflorida.com
Use the Bureau of Admission and Release for state-prison release questions. Central Records handles public-search questions, corrections, and central record requests.
For the right starting point:
- Use the Gulf County released-inmate search and records page for a named person or a local release-record request.
- Check parole and probation for state supervision and the Panama City Circuit Office.
- Use the 24-Hour Release List page to understand Gulf County’s lack of an official same-day release feed and the official fallback.
- Compare a projected release date with a VINELink notification when timing or alerts matter.
- Choose the facility page in the footer when a county jail, state prison, historical FDC component, or juvenile center is known.
- For a sentenced Florida prisoner, use the FDC Corrections Offender Network.
- For federal or immigration custody, use the official BOP Inmate Locator or ICE detainee locator.