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Beaumont sits in Perry County, Mississippi, and counted 669 residents in the 2020 Census, per the Census incorporated-place table. For city information, the Town of Beaumont departments page is the verified source. It names the Beaumont Police Department, Chief Wayne Penton, and a phone number: 601-784-3781. What it does not offer is a public arrest log, an online booking roster, a booking-photo feed, or a dedicated records line. So a phone call comes first.

Here is where people get confused. A Beaumont officer may make the arrest, yet the booking happens at Perry County Jail under the sheriff, not the town. Sheriff Jacob Garner's office would hold the county booking-side record if one exists in public form, while the police department keeps the city arrest report. No separate municipal jail appears in any public source. Rather than assume, confirm the custody arrangement with the arresting agency or the Perry County Sheriff's Department. A city tag on a third-party site proves nothing about which office owns the record.

Scope matters too. Someone freshly booked might show up in a county jail record, if the sheriff confirms it is public. Someone already released may vanish from a current-custody check even though the booking information still exists and can be requested. State custody is a different system entirely. None of these shifts can be read from an old news item or a commercial city label.

Beaumont Police Record Contact

Start any municipal request at the official Town of Beaumont departments page. It confirms the department's identity and phone number. It lists no street address, though, and names no records custodian. Calling settles both gaps. The town or the police department can confirm who currently handles Mississippi Public Records Act requests and how they prefer to receive them. One tip is worth remembering. A request pinned to a narrow date range reaches the right file far more often than a broad demand for everything the city holds.

The same official departments page also names Chief Wayne Penton and the Beaumont Police Department. What it lacks is any online arrest-log interface.

That contact information helps in one specific way. It separates a municipal arrest report from a county booking file, which are often mistaken for each other. It says nothing about booking images or a current city roster. The town publishes neither. Ask the department directly which record it holds. Then ask whether jail intake questions should go to the sheriff instead.

Once the custodian is confirmed, be specific. State the full name. Give an exact or narrow date range. Name the public record being requested. It also helps to ask whether the department keeps a public arrest log, an incident report, or some other responsive document. Two cautions apply. Do not push the municipal office to answer a jail booking question that belongs to the sheriff. And do not expect a sheriff's response to include the detailed report a Beaumont officer wrote, because that file stays with the city.

Beaumont Busted Mugshot Sources

No official Beaumont or Perry County page displays a live public mugshot or booking-photo feed. That is the plain reality. The city's contact page and the sheriff's official page should come before news coverage or commercial indexes. Mississippi's own public-record guidance says photographs and documents may be public, but access can turn on exemptions, agency procedures, and fees. Remember that these records do not substitute for one another. A city arrest report is not a county booking record. Neither one replaces what the court files.

Third-party sites carry their own problems. They can copy a source, update on whatever schedule suits them, drop a record without notice, or leave a stale entry in place. A city label and an apparent photo field on one of those pages are never the sheriff's certification of a booking. No booking-image gallery exists to check against.

Lookalike search results add another layer of risk. Perry County exists in more than one state. Unrelated jail portals can crowd out the Mississippi results. The genuine official route should line up with Perry County, New Augusta, the 601 area code, and the sheriff contact listed in the state directory. A redirect to another state or county is a dead end, not a detour. Skip it. Do not swap in a similarly named jail page, since such a link carries no authority for Beaumont records.

Beaumont Busted Booking Lookup

A smart lookup starts small. Use a known fact and work toward the record holder. Bring a name and a narrow date range. Know the difference between a police report and a county booking record. For the countywide request path, the Perry County records overview lays out the details.

1. Call Beaumont Police Department and ask who currently receives public-record requests for an arrest made by a city officer.
2. Ask the sheriff whether Perry County Jail has a responsive public booking record for the stated dates and what delivery method it requires.
3. Request the booking date and time, booking number if public, arresting agency, charge or statute as recorded, bond or hold field, release date if public, and the public access status of any booking image.
4. Send a separate, date-bounded request to the confirmed Beaumont custodian for the public arrest log or incident record.
5. Use the court clerk for a case number and recorded disposition. Do not infer the result from a booking entry or a news story.

Mississippi public-records law sets a general clock. Agencies get seven working days to respond. No adopted procedure? The window shrinks to one working day. Neither deadline forces an office to hand over exempt material or drop its fees. Before you send anything, ask for a cost estimate and write down the date of your request. If something gets withheld, the custodian should tell you which exemption applies.

Trim your request to what actually confirms a Beaumont booking. Confidential medical details, juvenile files, and investigative narratives can all stay out. Leaving them out speeds things up. Keep every piece of paper together: the acknowledgment, the fee estimate, and the final answer. When a booking photo is withheld, ask whether the rest of the booking fields can be released on their own. A custodian's written response beats guessing from an online index that shows nothing.

Beaumont Busted Agency Labels

Labels trip people up. An entry might list Beaumont Police as the arresting agency. Yet the jail sits inside Perry County's booking system. Other entries point to the Perry County Sheriff, the Mississippi Highway Patrol, or a different department entirely. Keep four facts separate: the source, the agency label, the booking date, and the publication date. Blend them and confusion follows. A city filter on a commercial index proves nothing about which office created the record.

Two terms do a lot of work here. "Booking" means a person was taken into custody and processed. "Disposition" means the result a court later recorded. Someone can walk out of the jail while the booking record stays public, and the final court outcome may never appear in either the city report or the jail file. That gap is normal, so check both sources before assuming anything.

Beaumont Court Record Follow-Up

A booking source cannot tell you how a Beaumont case ended. For court records, the CourtReference Perry County listing places Beaumont Municipal Court at Beaumont Town Hall, 1510 Beaumont Brooklyn Road, Beaumont, MS 39423, with P.O. Box 605 and fax 601-784-3352. That listing is not an official town or court page. Confirm the contact before you rely on it. Ask the clerk for a case number and the recorded disposition rather than a jail booking photo.

Which court holds the file depends on the charge. Circuit Court handles felony criminal matters and Justice Court appeals, per the official Perry Circuit Clerk information. Municipal and Justice Court cases may sit with a different custodian altogether. The booking document helps you spot the event. The court file tells you what happened next.

Regional WDAM coverage sometimes folds Beaumont into a larger Perry County story involving several agencies. No dedicated city feed exists. Treat news reports and commercial indexes as background, and check official town and sheriff contacts for anything that matters.

One caution on case numbers. Ask the clerk to identify the court's current file before drawing conclusions, since a charge may have been transferred or amended along the way. A court record shows the disposition that court recorded. A photo, a bond field, or an early news report is no substitute for that file.