This website is a private reference guide, not a Virginia Beach government office. We cannot confirm whether someone is in custody, release a person, post bond, schedule a visit, add commissary funds, or pull an official booking record. Use the official agency contact below for the action you need.
Where to Start
Virginia Beach Sheriff's Office and Virginia Beach Correctional Center:
2501 James Madison Blvd., Virginia Beach, VA 23456
Main jail information: (757) 385-4555
VBSO Inmate Lookup: https://inmateinfo.vbso.net:8445/IML
VBSO public records and FOIA contact:
Capt. Lois Thompson, Professional Standards and Accountability
Email: pso@vbso.net
Office: (757) 385-1971
Fax: (757) 385-1798
City FOIA Request Center: https://cvb-virginiabeachva.govqa.us/
VBSO FOIA page: https://vbso.net/freedom-of-information-act
Magistrate and bond information:
Virginia Beach Magistrate Office, Building 7C, 2473 Nimmo Parkway, Virginia Beach, VA 23456
The magistrate office is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. VBSO jail information is also listed locally at (757) 385-4555.
Use the route that matches the record or custody type you are trying to verify.
- For a person booked at Virginia Beach Correctional Center, start with jail inmate records and the VBSO Inmate Lookup.
- For a booking photo from a VBCC profile or a FOIA request, use jail roster mugshots.
- For charges, hearings, docket entries, or dispositions after arrest, use court records after a jail arrest and the Virginia courts case systems.
- For local jail address, phone, visitation, mail, and money rules, use the Virginia Beach Correctional Center facility page.
- For a sentenced state prisoner or someone transferred from local custody to state authority, use the VADOC locator at https://vadoc.virginia.gov/general-public/inmate-and-supervisee-locator/.
- For federal sentenced custody, use the BOP locator at https://www.bop.gov/inmateloc/. For immigration custody, use ICE ODLS at https://locator.ice.gov/odls/#/search.