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Where Catawba Records Are Held

For county custody and booking questions, start with the Catawba County Sheriff’s Office or the Catawba County Detention Facility. The Sheriff’s Records Division handles law-enforcement records and requests. Its public reports page gives the email and in-person request route. Reports may be requested in person Monday-Friday 8 a.m.-5 p.m., or by email.

Sheriff and detention contacts

The detention phone is the practical route for current facility logistics. Records is the better route for a defined public booking record, report, or photograph. The public pages do not state a special booking-photo fee or a guaranteed response time. Include the person’s full name, likely agency, and booking or confinement date when known.

Catawba County Clerk and court contacts

Use the Catawba County Judicial Branch page and North Carolina eCourts for public case information, court dates, filings, and dispositions. A court case can continue after a person leaves the live jail roster. A booking charge is an accusation, not a conviction.

For a municipal incident, contact the originating police department. Newton’s public-information request form accepts hand delivery, mail, or fax and states a minimum five-working-day period for crime or calls-for-service reports. Hickory Police can be reached at 828-328-5551. Conover Police is at 115 2nd Ave NE, Conover, NC 28613, 828-464-4698.

Use these routes for the question that matches the record:

• For a booking photo or booking record, use the Catawba search and records path, then contact Sheriff’s Records if the live roster no longer shows the person.
• For a person just arrested or currently held, check the official Who’s in Jail roster and call the Detention Facility for current custody logistics.
• For a court outcome, docket, or disposition, use eCourts or the Clerk’s criminal department rather than a jail or news page.
• For a release date, release status, or custody alert, ask the Detention Facility and review NC SAVAN, which provides official notifications but does not provide booking photos.
• For a specific county detention facility question, use the Catawba County Detention Facility’s official information route and its phone listed above. No separate facility page or private directory can confirm custody.
• For a sentenced state prisoner, probationer, or parolee, use the NCDAC Criminal Offender Search. NCDAC does not replace county-jail records.
• For federal custody, use the Bureau of Prisons Inmate Locator; for immigration custody, use the ICE Online Detainee Locator. Neither is a county booking feed or a public mugshot gallery.