This is a private reference site, not a government office. We cannot confirm whether a person is in custody, release anyone, post bond, or pull official booking records. For any of those, reach out to the right agency directly. The contacts below point you to the offices that hold the actual records.
Looking for an Inmate or a Record?
The office you need depends on who arrested the person and where they are held now. Start with the agency that controls the record you want. The three contacts below cover most Hamden custody, booking, and records questions.
Hamden Police Department
Local arrests and police records
2900 Dixwell Avenue
Hamden, CT 06518
Non-emergency: 203-230-4000
Emergency: 911
Records requests go through the Records Division under the Town's Freedom of Information process.
Connecticut Department of Correction
Statewide custody, before and after sentencing
New Haven Correctional Center
245 Whalley Avenue
New Haven, CT 06511
203-974-4111
DOC Public Information Office: 860-692-7780, Monday to Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
DOC central office
24 Wolcott Hill Road
Wethersfield, CT 06109
860-692-7480
Town Clerk
Freedom of Information navigation point
2750 Dixwell Avenue
Hamden, CT 06518
203-287-7028
Public hours: Monday to Friday, 8:45 a.m. to 4:15 p.m.
Once you know which office holds the record, the list below points you to the page that walks through each kind of search.
- Someone picked up after a Hamden arrest, start with jail inmate records.
- Booking photos are covered on jail roster mugshots.
- Charges filed after an arrest show up under court records after a jail arrest.
- Details on one specific jail sit on the detention facility pages listed in the footer.
- Anyone in Connecticut DOC custody, whether held before trial or serving a sentence, appears in the CT DOC Inmate Information Search.
- A federal or immigration detainee turns up in the federal BOP inmate locator or the ICE online detainee locator.