This is a private reference site, not a government office. We cannot confirm whether someone is in custody, release a detainee, post bond, schedule a visit, or pull an official booking record. Use the appropriate Orangeburg County, South Carolina, state, federal, or immigration office for those actions.
Where to Start for Orangeburg Records
For local jail and sheriff records, the research points first to the Orangeburg County Sheriff's Office and the Orangeburg-Calhoun Regional Detention Center on the Ellis Avenue law-enforcement campus.
Orangeburg County Sheriff's Office
1520 Ellis Avenue, Orangeburg, SC 29118
Mailing: P.O. Drawer 9000, Orangeburg, SC 29116-9000
Main phone: 803-531-4647
Records: 803-533-5943
Warrants: 803-533-5803
Desk Sergeant: 803-539-2079
Communications Center: 803-534-3550
Sheriff Records and FOIA Requests
Mail: Orangeburg County Sheriff's Office, Attn: Records Division, P.O. Drawer 9000, Orangeburg, SC 29116-9000
Fax: 803-533-5806
Email: crandolph@orangeburgcounty.org
Incident reports: the sheriff's form lists a $5 charge for each incident report, and requests require a signature plus a government-issued ID copy.
Orangeburg-Calhoun Regional Detention Center
Ellis Avenue detention campus, Orangeburg, SC
Detention FAQ phone: 803-539-2091
Detention Center directory phone: 803-531-4139
County website hours are listed as Monday through Friday, 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM. Bond Court publishes daily bond-hearing hours from 9:00 AM to 2:30 PM, and bond payment hours at the Central office from Monday through Friday, 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM. Confirm the correct entrance and current counter hours before driving to the Ellis Avenue campus.
- For a person believed to be in the local detention center, begin with jail inmate records and the detention phone lines above.
- For booking-photo access and South Carolina limits on mugshot use, see jail roster mugshots.
- For charges, bond, magistrate court, circuit court, or case lookup after an arrest, use court records after a jail arrest.
- For facility-specific address and custody notes, use the Orangeburg-Calhoun Regional Detention Center page.
- For a sentenced South Carolina prisoner, use the South Carolina Department of Corrections inmate search rather than the county jail.
- For federal or immigration custody, use the Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate locator or the ICE Online Detainee Locator System.