Search North Slope Jail Mugshots

North Slope Borough jail mugshots cover booking photos taken by the North Slope Borough Police Department and at the Utqiagvik community jail. This page shows how to search North Slope jail mugshots, pull inmate custody status through VINE, look up cases on CourtView, and file a records request. The borough has its own full-service police department, unlike most of rural Alaska. Start here to track an arrest, find an inmate, or get court info for any North Slope village case.

North Slope Jail Mugshots Lookup

The North Slope Borough runs its own police department. This is rare in rural Alaska. Most small boroughs rely on the state troopers. NSB Police cover Utqiagvik (formerly Barrow) and seven other villages on the Arctic coast. The borough also runs the Utqiagvik community jail under a state contract. North Slope jail mugshots start with an NSB Police booking and may move to a state facility if the inmate is held long term.

The fastest way to find an inmate is VINE. Go to vinelink.com or call 1-800-247-9763. VINE is free and runs all day. Search by name. You can set up alerts for custody changes. Most North Slope arrestees who are held past a first hearing get flown to Fairbanks or Anchorage for long-term holds at Fairbanks Correctional Center or the Anchorage Correctional Complex.

North Slope jail mugshots are not posted on any public roster. To get a booking photo, you file a records request with NSB Police. For state jail bookings, the request goes to the Alaska Department of Corrections. Name the booking number if you have one. Ask for "booking photograph" in clear terms. Release is subject to AS 40.25.120 privacy rules and AS 12.62.180 balancing.

The North Slope Borough Police site lists the records request form, contact info, and office hours for all North Slope jail mugshots and arrest files.

NSB Police Records Unit

The North Slope Borough Police Department is at 1068 Kiogak Street, Barrow, AK 99723. Mail goes to P.O. Box 470, Barrow, AK 99723. The main phone is (907) 852-0311. The records fax is (907) 852-0318. The email is police.records@north-slope.org. The lobby is open Monday through Friday (except holidays) from 9 AM to 11:45 AM and 1 PM to 4 PM.

NSB Police use a set of forms for records requests. These include the NSBPD Records Request Form, the NSBPD Evidence Request Form, a Fingerprint Form, and the Criminal Justice Information Request Form. The fee is 50 cents per page. The first $5 is waived. Processing runs 10 working days standard and up to 20 with an extension. Most North Slope jail mugshots from NSB Police bookings sit with this records unit.

The borough jail in Utqiagvik runs as a state community jail. NSB staff handle intake and short-term holding. After a first hearing, inmates who are held long term get flown out of the North Slope. The jail phone is (907) 852-6111. For inmate status, VINE is the fastest free route.

State Jails Holding North Slope Inmates

The Utqiagvik community jail is the only local holding site in the North Slope Borough. It is a small facility run by NSB staff under contract with the Alaska Department of Corrections. Long-term inmates do not stay here. After the first hearing, most get moved by plane to Fairbanks Correctional Center at 1931 Eagan Avenue, Fairbanks, AK 99701, or to the Anchorage Correctional Complex on East 4th Avenue.

Fairbanks Correctional Center holds about 450 beds. Anchorage ACC runs more than 850 beds across two buildings. Women may end up at Hiland Mountain in Eagle River. For sentenced inmates, the end stop is often Goose Creek Correctional Center in Wasilla, which holds up to 1,536 beds and is the largest prison in Alaska.

A sample booking record holds these fields: booking number, date, time, inmate name, DOB, sex, race, height, weight, hair and eye color, village of residence, charges with AS cites, warrant numbers, bail amount, housing unit, and next court date. The mugshot is a separate image file. To check custody, call the facility or use VINE. The DOC main site has visit and mail rules for each prison.

Barrow Court Records

The Alaska Court System runs the Utqiagvik Trial Courts at 1250 Agvik Street, Barrow, AK 99723. The clerk phone is (907) 852-4800. Utqiagvik sits in the Second Judicial District. Every North Slope criminal case gets filed here. Cases from villages like Nuiqsut, Point Hope, and Wainwright move through Barrow when they need a trial court.

You can look up cases on CourtView at records.courts.alaska.gov. Search by name, case number, or hearing date. A case page shows charges, bail, hearing dates, and the facility where the person is held. Copy fees are $2.50 per page plain and $5 plus $2.50 per page certified. The public courts portal has the mail-in forms.

Sealed records need a court order. Juvenile files are off limits. Pre-1990 cases are not in CourtView. For those older files, call the Barrow clerk direct.

The CourtView public search is the fastest free route to pull case info tied to North Slope jail mugshots or any Barrow court record.

Alaska Troopers and State Records

The Alaska State Troopers Utqiagvik Post helps cover the North Slope on major cases. The phone is (907) 852-3783. Troopers work joint calls with NSB Police when the case involves state charges or crosses borough lines. Records requests for trooper files go through the DPS portal at dpsalaska.justfoia.com.

The Criminal Records and Identification Bureau in Anchorage handles name-based criminal history checks for $20 and fingerprint checks for $35. The phone is (907) 269-5767. The DPS main site is at dps.alaska.gov. The Alaska Public Records Act sits under AS 40.25.100 through AS 40.25.295. Criminal history rules sit under AS 12.62.160. The APRA guide is at law.alaska.gov/doclibrary/APRA.html.

Troopers post a daily dispatch at dailydispatch.dps.alaska.gov. The feed lists arrests by date and spot. North Slope cases show up here often when a state charge is filed. For federal custody, the Federal BOP locator tracks inmates held since 1982.

North Slope Public Records Access

Under AS 40.25, Alaska agencies have 10 working days to answer a first records request. NSB Police follow this rule and can extend up to 20 days. Fees are set at 50 cents per page with the first $5 waived. That rate is lower than most city police departments in Alaska. Non-litigation certification is standard on most forms.

Arrest logs and incident reports are often open. Criminal history reports are locked down under AS 12.62.160. Juvenile files are sealed under AS 47.12. Mugshots are judged one by one under AS 12.62.180. When no clear public interest shows up, the photo may be held back.

North Slope residents can also reach out to the borough clerk for non-police records. The borough runs its own clerk and legal staff in Utqiagvik. Some records tied to an arrest sit with those offices, not with NSB Police. For appeals of a records denial, the state APRA guide walks you through the steps. The first appeal goes to the agency head. The next step is the Superior Court.