This privately owned site is not affiliated with Iowa, Hardin County, any sheriff, jail, court, or corrections department. Neither this site nor its advertising partners offers a consumer report or an FCRA-covered screening service.
Nature of the Service
The site is a reference resource that points toward official custody, court, and records-request channels and may connect visitors to independent research tools. It holds no government records and cannot confirm detention, arrange release, or file a request for a visitor.
Acceptable Use Rules
Use must remain lawful and must respect other people and the site's operation.
- Do not stalk, harass, threaten, defame, or harm anyone.
- Do not make hiring, housing, lending, insurance, or eligibility decisions from site material.
- Do not seek unauthorized access or bypass security controls.
- Do not deploy bots, scrapers, malware, or excessive automated requests.
- Do not disrupt the service or another visitor's access.
No Consumer Reports
Hardin County Busted Mugshots is not a consumer reporting agency under the Fair Credit Reporting Act and provides no background check, credit report, or consumer report. You agree not to use this material for employment or firing, tenant or housing screening, creditworthiness, insurance pricing, licensing, government-benefit eligibility, or any other FCRA-regulated decision.
Outside Links and Services
Links may lead to jail information, court portals, corrections databases, legal resources, news publishers, and search providers. A link is not an endorsement. Those operators control their content, availability, privacy terms, and prices, and users must review their rules separately.
Service Provided As Is
The site and its content are provided "as is" and "as available." To the fullest extent allowed by law, no warranty is made that information is accurate, complete, current, uninterrupted, secure, error-free, or suitable for a particular purpose. Partner results may omit records or return mismatches. Custody and court facts change, and nothing here is an official government statement.
Limits of Liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, the site and its owners, contributors, and service providers are not liable for direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive loss arising from access, use, inability to use, reliance on content, or use of an outside service.
Your Duty to Indemnify
You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold the site and its operators harmless from claims, losses, liabilities, and reasonable legal fees caused by your misuse, unlawful conduct, violation of another person's rights, or breach of these terms.
Ownership of Site Content
Unless otherwise stated, original text, graphics, branding, layout, and code belong to Hardin County Busted Mugshots or its licensors. They may not be copied, republished, sold, modified, or distributed without written permission. Government records and third-party marks remain subject to their own ownership rules.
Revisions to These Terms
These terms may change at any time. A revision takes effect when posted. Continued use after posting indicates acceptance of the revised terms.
Suspension of Access
Access may be restricted or ended without notice when needed to protect the service, enforce these terms, respond to abuse, or for any other lawful reason.
Iowa Law Controls
These terms are governed by Iowa law, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Any dispute must be brought in a court with proper jurisdiction in Iowa. Iowa Code Chapter 22 concerns government public records and does not turn this private site into a records custodian.
Severability
If a court finds one provision invalid or unenforceable, that provision will be narrowed only as needed, while the remaining terms continue in effect.
Questions About These Terms
Use the Contact Us page for questions about these terms. Government record or custody questions must go to the appropriate public office.