Manly Police Arrest Records
Manly stands apart from Northwood and Fertile. The city lists its own municipal police department. The official Manly departments page gives the Manly Police Department at 132 East South Street, phone 641-454-2114. Local reporting in 2026 also noted that Manly kept its department while other towns relied on county coverage, which makes the department the natural custodian for any incident or arrest report written by a Manly officer.
The city posts no police arrest log. No daily bulletin, mugshot page, or request form appears either. No fee schedule or response-time promise exists. That gap matters. A city report and a jail booking are different files. Call Manly Police to learn its current records procedure. For the custody record or county booking photo, take the Worth County Sheriff route.

The city page lists police contacts only, not a live arrest feed or booking photos.
Where Manly Arrests Are Published
No single source answers everything after a Manly arrest. The Worth County report can show a public custody record. Manly Police may control the event report itself. Check official agency and court sources before news pages, and remember that Iowa Courts Online matters only once a case is filed.
| Source | Record stage | Photo | Authority |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manly Police Department | Incident or arrest report | No published policy | Official city agency |
| Worth County Who’s in Jail | Active custody and visible recent release | Selected image may appear | Official county source |
| Iowa Courts Online | Filed charge through disposition | Not a photo source | Official state court |
| Northwood Anchor | Selected news stories | Story dependent | Independent weekly news |
The major booking aggregators carry no working Worth County feed. Mugshots.com shows a Worth County row with zero indexed records. That offers nothing for Manly. Jail Exchange simply points back to the sheriff. Treat third-party pages as secondary at best, since they can sit stale or incomplete.
Locate a Manly Arrest Booking
Start with both agencies at once. A police report can exist even after a person leaves the public county roster. A roster hit, likewise, may lack the narrative a Manly report contains. Know which record you want before you call.
- Call Manly Police when the event details or officer’s report are needed.
- Open the official Worth County Who’s in Jail page and follow its Power BI report link.
- Use Active Inmates and the name selector, then compare arrest date, number, agency, charges, and bond.
- Select the matching row to view name, age, residence, and an image when the report supplies one.
- If nothing current appears, call the Worth County Sheriff at 641-324-2481 and ask about release or transfer.
The county report offers a released-in-last-30-days selector. That label is not a full archive. A missing person may have been released, transferred, or housed in another county. Legal limits or stale data can also hide a name. The Worth County mugshot treatment explains why an empty image view can mislead. It does not mean no photograph was taken.
Manly Arrests and Mitchell Housing
Manly's core problem is the gap between the arresting agency and the detention site. A July 2024 Northwood Anchor report detailed the arrangement. From July 8, it said, Manly Police and Iowa State Patrol arrestees went straight to Mitchell County Jail. Worth Sheriff inmates would follow soon after. Worth was called a 24-hour holding facility. That report is a checkpoint, not proof of a 2026 contract.
The lesson matters anyway. Do not assume a Manly arrestee stays in Manly, or even in Worth County. Ask the sheriff directly. The answer may be short-term Worth holding, Mitchell County housing, release, or another authority entirely. Confirm the current site before a visit, mail, or any reliance on facility rules.
Publication and placement can also diverge. The Worth report may remain the official public entry even if the person is housed elsewhere. Transfers may lag in an older public model too. Read the agency report, custody confirmation, and court case as three separate stages.
When Manly Arrests Become Visible
Neither Manly nor Worth County promises an intake-to-online deadline. No daily feed, hourly update, or weekend rule exists. There is no set overnight posting time either. The Power BI model linked as Worth County Recent Arrests carries a September 5, 2024 refresh with no schedule enabled. The county may update or replace it. Check the date before trusting it.
For a fresh Manly arrest, mark the date on any report you view. Stale data or no match means a phone call. Call the county custody line and Manly Police. Give a full name, rough arrest time, possible agency, and arrest number if known. The county's Arrests Last 24 Hours page covers the lack of a true same-day Worth feed.
Note: a blank or stale report cannot confirm whether an arrest actually occurred.
Request Manly Arrest Documents
Start with whoever created the record. Manly Police may hold the officer's report. The sheriff may hold booking sheets, custody records, bond entries, and booking photographs. Mitchell County may hold housing records if it received the person, so ask each office only for what it likely controls.
- Identify the person, date range, place, and arresting agency.
- Ask Manly Police which request method, fee, and response process currently apply.
- For a county booking, give Worth Sheriff the arrest number and ask for the booking record and photograph.
- Request an electronic copy and a cost estimate before chargeable work.
- Ask the custodian to cite the legal basis for any redaction or withheld portion.
132 E. South St.
Manly, IA 50456
Phone: 641-454-2114
Records route, fee, and turnaround: confirm by phone
Iowa's public-records law, Chapter 22 of the state code, sets the rules here. Section 22.7(9) opens current and prior arrest records to the public. Other parts of a criminal-identification file stay shielded, though. Juvenile matters, sealed or expunged records, victim details, medical facts, and active investigative work may all be withheld from a Manly arrest request.
Manly Mugshots and Booking Photos
Manly Police publish no booking-photo policy. The Worth County jail report does show an Inmate Photo for one selected record. But that is the extent of it. Nothing promises a photo for every arrest. Nor does the county say how long an image stays up. Treat it as a record, not a gallery. When no picture appears, ask which agency holds the image. Ask whether it qualifies as a releasable arrest record.
Keep any photo request narrow. Give the full name, the arrest date, the agency, and the arrest number. Ask for the booking photograph itself rather than a fresh summary. Manly Police and the Worth Sheriff publish no fee schedule or response window. If the custodian quotes a cost, offer a tighter date range. Give the exact identifier to cut the search work.
After Manly Recent Arrests
A jail record never tells you how the case ended. Iowa Courts Online lets you search the matching Worth County criminal case. Match the identifier with care. Read the filed charge, the hearing entries, any listed bond, and the disposition. That disposition is the court's own outcome. It may be dismissal, plea, acquittal, judgment, or another recorded resolution.
- Arrest report
- The law-enforcement account of the event.
- Booking
- Custody intake, identity fields, initial charges, and bond data.
- Transfer
- A move to another jail or authority.
- Disposition
- The later court result, not the booking charge.
The Worth County clerk, at 641-324-6539, can walk you through court document access. The clerk cannot confirm the sheriff report's currency or hand over a Manly police report. For custody-change alerts, IowaVINE runs as a separate statewide service, though it supplies no mugshots.
Manly Arrests and IDOC
Jesse Luther appears as sheriff on the Worth County Sheriff page right now. Elected officials change. Verify the name on the live page. Aim custody and booking requests at the Worth County Sheriff's Office itself. A request for a Manly officer's report belongs with Manly Police. That split keeps a personnel change from misrouting your records request.
The Iowa Department of Corrections offender search picks up where a county booking lookup stops. It tracks people in state correctional custody or under supervision. That status applies once the legal process has run. Search fields cover name, offender number, sex, location, offense text, and county of commitment. Picking Worth as the commitment county won't show a fresh Manly arrest. It also won't show county jail custody.
IDOC says its public information is updated weekly. Not every profile shows a photograph. For an IDOC-held document or identification image, use the department's official open-records page. For the original Manly booking image, go back through the Worth Sheriff request path. Compare custody dates and status. That way an old state record never masquerades as a new city arrest.
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