This is a private reference site, not a government office. It cannot confirm custody, release a person, post bond, schedule visitation, or retrieve an official booking file. Use the official Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, state, federal, or court contact that controls the record.
Official Mecklenburg Contacts
The contacts below come from the Mecklenburg County research file and should be used for official jail, booking, public-record, and court questions. Detention Operations, Arrest Processing, and Dispatch are described by MCSO as open 24 hours a day, every day of the year. Court public access follows courthouse business hours.
Mecklenburg County Sheriff's Office
700 E. 4th Street
Charlotte, NC 28202
General information line: (704) 336-8100
Website: Mecklenburg County Sheriff's Office
Mecklenburg County Detention Center Central
801 East Fourth Street
Charlotte, NC 28202
Jail phone: (980) 314-5200
Hours note: MCSO states Detention Operations and Arrest Processing operate 24/7.
Mecklenburg County Courthouse
832 East Fourth Street
Charlotte, NC 28202
Main phone: (704) 686-0400
Public court-record access: Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Choose the record path by the type of question, not just by the person's name. A jail booking, a court case, and a sentenced-prison record may all describe the same person but live in different systems.
- For someone in the county jail, start with jail inmate records and the MCSO Inmate Inquiry.
- For booking photos, use jail roster mugshots and the MCSO Arrest or Inmate Inquiry.
- For charges filed after booking, use court records after a jail arrest and the North Carolina eCourts Portal.
- For a facility-specific phone or address, use the detention facility pages linked in the footer.
- For a sentenced North Carolina prisoner, use the NCDAC Offender Public Information locator.
- For federal or immigration custody, use the BOP Inmate Locator or ICE Online Detainee Locator System.
For Mecklenburg County records not available through the jail or arrest searches, use the Mecklenburg County public-records request page. For custody or case-status alerts, North Carolina VINE is available at VINELink for North Carolina.