This website is a private reference guide, not a jail, sheriff's office, clerk's office, court, or public-records unit. We cannot confirm whether someone is in custody, release a person, post bond, change a court date, or retrieve an official booking record. Use the official Cumberland County or North Carolina contact listed for the record you need.
Where to Ask for Cumberland County Records
For jail custody questions, start with the Cumberland County Detention Center. For sheriff administration, use the Sheriff's Office main line and Dick Street address. For court case files, use the North Carolina Judicial Branch and Cumberland County court routes rather than the jail.
Cumberland County Detention Center204 Gillespie Street
Fayetteville, NC 28301
Information desk: (910) 672-5630 or (910) 672-5622
Public Magistrate: (910) 672-5610 Cumberland County Sheriff's Office Administration
131 Dick Street
Fayetteville, NC 28301
Main line: (910) 323-1500
The research source did not identify published public-counter hours for the detention information desk. Call before traveling to the jail, the sheriff's administrative office, or a records counter.
- For someone believed to be in the county jail, use jail inmate records and the Cumberland County active inmate search, then call the detention information desk if the booking is too recent or unclear.
- For booking photos, use jail roster mugshots and remember that Fayetteville Police P2C recent arrests are arrest information, not proof of current jail custody.
- For charges and dispositions after an arrest, use court records after a jail arrest, the N.C. eCourts Portal, or the clerk's public terminal for Cumberland County cases.
- For facility-specific details, use the Cumberland County Detention Center page and confirm visitation, mail, medical, and phone rules with the jail before acting.
- For public-records requests to Cumberland County, use the county NextRequest portal under North Carolina General Statute Chapter 132 and describe the record, date, person, and agency as precisely as possible.
- For a sentenced state prisoner, use the North Carolina Department of Adult Correction offender search. NCDAC says its locator does not include county jail records.
- For federal or immigration custody, use the Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate locator for sentenced federal prisoners or the ICE Online Detainee Locator System for immigration detainees.