This website is a private reference guide, not a government office. It cannot verify custody, release a person, post bond, schedule visitation, or retrieve official booking records. Use the official contacts below for those tasks.
Where to Start for a Dinwiddie County Record
Dinwiddie County adults in local jail custody are usually handled through Meherrin River Regional Jail, while sheriff records, court cases, state prison custody, and federal or immigration custody use different offices.
- Current jail custody, booking, release processing, visitation, mail, phone, and account questions: Meherrin River Regional Jail - Alberta Main Facility, 9000 Boydton Plank Road, Alberta, VA 23821, (434) 949-6700.
- Arrest reports, incident records, warrants handled by deputies, civil process, and law-enforcement administration: Dinwiddie County Sheriff's Office, 13850 Courthouse Road, Dinwiddie, VA 23841; mailing address P.O. Box 120, Dinwiddie, VA 23841; phone (804) 469-4550; fax (804) 469-4854; hours Monday-Friday, 8:30 am-5:00 pm.
- MRRJ records requests under Virginia FOIA: Shelley Slaughter, FOIA Officer, P.O. Box 10, Alberta, VA 23821; (434) 949-6700 x204; foia@mrrj.org. The MRRJ FOIA rights PDF also prints (434) 949-6709 and sslaughter@mrrj.org as alternate contact details.
- Virginia FOIA requests may be made by mail, fax, email, in person, or phone. Describe the existing record with reasonable specificity, such as full name, date of birth if known, approximate booking date, arresting agency, and requested record type.
Use the Right Lookup Path
- For a person believed to be in the regional jail serving Dinwiddie County, begin with jail inmate records and the MRRJ Current Offenders roster, then call MRRJ if the roster does not load.
- For booking-photo questions, use jail roster mugshots, then ask MRRJ whether an existing booking photograph is publicly releasable under Virginia FOIA.
- For formal charges, hearings, dispositions, and court dates after an arrest, use court records after a jail arrest and the Virginia court case systems.
- For facility-specific address and phone details, use the facility pages in the footer for the Alberta main facility and the Boydton satellite facility.
- For a sentenced state prisoner or person under Virginia Department of Corrections supervision, use the VADOC Inmate and Supervisee Locator at https://vadoc.virginia.gov/general-public/inmate-and-supervisee-locator/.
- For sentenced federal custody, use the Federal Bureau of Prisons locator at https://www.bop.gov/inmate_locator/index.jsp. For immigration custody, use ICE ODLS at https://locator.ice.gov/; USA.gov says the ICE search may use an A-number or name, country of birth, and date of birth.
Court and Prosecutor Routing
- Dinwiddie Circuit Court: 14008 Boydton Plank Road, Dinwiddie, VA 23841; phone (804) 469-4540. Circuit Court handles felony trials, indictment matters, and other higher court proceedings.
- Dinwiddie General District Court: 14008 Boydton Plank Road, Dinwiddie, VA 23841; mailing address P.O. Box 280, Dinwiddie, VA 23841; phone (804) 469-4533; fax (804) 469-5383; hours Monday-Friday, 8:30 am-4:30 pm.
- Virginia Case Status and Information: https://www.vacourts.gov/caseinfo/home. General District Court Online Case Information: https://eapps.courts.state.va.us/gdcourts. OCIS 2.0: https://eapps.courts.state.va.us/ocis/landing.
- Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court cases may be confidential. Virginia Judicial Self-Help says JDR case information is not available online to protect confidentiality.
- Dinwiddie Commonwealth's Attorney: Amanda Mann, 14008 Boydton Plank Road, Dinwiddie, VA 23841; mailing address P.O. Box 296, Dinwiddie, VA 23841; phone (804) 469-4536; fax (804) 469-4054; hours Monday-Friday, 8:30 am-5:00 pm.