This website is a private reference resource, not a government office. It cannot confirm whether someone is in custody, release anyone, post bond, pull official booking records, schedule visits, or speak for the Schenectady County Sheriff's Office or correction facility. Use the official contacts below for those requests.
Where to Direct Jail and Records Questions
Schenectady County's local jail contact point is the Schenectady County Correctional Facility, also listed by the State Commission of Correction as Schenectady County Jail. The county materials reviewed for this project did not publish general public counter hours, so call before going to the facility for custody, records, bail, or visiting questions.
Schenectady County Correctional Facility
320 Veeder Avenue
Schenectady, NY 12307
Main phone: (518) 388-4300
Fax: (518) 388-4593
Phone directory: Administration ext. 5149, Visiting ext. 2, Bail ext. 4, Records other than medical records ext. 5, Medical Records ext. 8, Community Resource Officer ext. 7.
Facility notes: the jail lobby kiosk accepts inmate account deposits 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Visiting schedules are posted in housing units rather than as a fixed public web schedule, and incarcerated people are responsible for telling visitors their visiting hours.
Schenectady County Sheriff's Office
Sheriff Dominic Dagostino oversees the Sheriff's Office, including the Department of Corrections division that operates the jail.
Corrections: 320 Veeder Avenue, Schenectady, NY 12307, (518) 388-4300
Road Patrol/K-9 Unit: 130 Princetown Plaza, Princetown, NY 12306, (518) 388-4310
Emergency: 911
Non-emergency matters: (518) 630-0911
Sheriff Records and FOIL
Government agencies requesting record checks should send the request on agency letterhead to the Schenectady County Sheriff's Office Records Unit, 320 Veeder Avenue, Schenectady, NY 12307. Other public record requests are routed through the Schenectady County FOIL form, which asks for detailed document names, dates, locations, and other identifying information. County copy requests note a $0.25 per-page charge.
Use the topic list below to choose the right path before calling or filing a request.
- For a person believed to be in the county jail, start with jail inmate records and the correction facility main line at (518) 388-4300.
- For booking photographs, read jail roster mugshots; Schenectady County did not publish an official mugshot gallery in the researched pages.
- For formal charges, appearances, or case movement after arrest, use court records after a jail arrest and the New York WebCriminal court tools.
- For facility-specific custody, visiting, bail, or commissary information, see Schenectady County Correctional Facility.
- For a person sentenced to New York state prison, use the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision incarcerated lookup rather than the county jail.
- For federal sentenced custody or immigration detention, use the Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate locator or ICE Online Detainee Locator System.