Broome County keeps no public roster and routes this question to a statewide custody system plus two staffed phone lines of its own. The search below is a quicker first move.
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Broome County does not run a roster, a lookup form or a booking feed. We checked the Sheriff’s full site navigation rather than assuming, and there is no search page on it. What the county offers instead is a link to the VINE custody system and, more usefully than most counties manage, two phone routes staffed by people whose job is inmate records.
The Sheriff’s Office runs a full site with fourteen top-level sections and ten corrections sub-pages. None of them is a search.
The single search route the county designates is a sidebar link labelled for the VINE system, which is New York’s custody notification service for county jails. It takes a name or an identification number, and it exists to tell victims when somebody’s custody status changes. Families use it as a lookup, which works, but it was not designed as one.
That matters for how you read a result. VINE is a notification product first. Its interface pushes registration for alerts harder than it pushes searching, and you do not have to register to run a search.
Most county jails give you a switchboard. Broome publishes a staffed records operation, and it is the more reliable answer here precisely because there is no roster to fall back on.
| What you need | Number |
|---|---|
| Jail inquiries | 607-778-1911, then option 2 |
| Inmate Records | 607-778-6007 or 607-778-2940 |
| Intake | 607-778-6018 or 607-778-6019 |
| Visitation | 607-778-6142 |
| Commissary | 607-778-2344 |
Inmate Records is the unit that holds what a search would tell you. Intake is the one to try if the arrest was recent, since that is where a new arrival is processed before any record settles anywhere else.
The main line’s option menu is worth memorising: option 1 is dispatch, option 2 is jail inquiries, option 4 is records and option 9 is administration.
Two separate things can produce nothing.
Booking has not finished. A person taken in an hour ago is still being processed, and no system anywhere shows them yet. That is the process working normally.
The agency is not reporting at that moment. VINE depends on agencies feeding it, and agencies go temporarily offline. While one is, record information is not available through the tool even though the person is in custody.
So a blank search is a reason to call, not a conclusion. Jail inquiries on 607-778-1911, option 2 is the call.
Broome County publishes an official Sheriff’s app, launched in July 2023 and built for the Sheriff’s Office by an outside vendor. For families it offers inmate status, bail payment, commissary deposits, phone calls, online mail and photos, all in one place.
It is genuinely official. It is also required for nothing. Every function it carries has a standalone web route, and visiting is arranged inside the jail regardless of what any app says. If it suits you, use it. If it does not, you lose no access by skipping it.
Broome holds a substantial federal population and it has grown fast: 21 people in 2024, 48 in 2025, and 52 by July 2026. The facility also appears on the federal immigration detention list, with a separate contact number of 607-778-6018 published for detainee information.
If your person is in federal custody rather than county custody, the county’s own records unit may not be the right desk, and the timetable that moves them is not one Broome controls. Ask which one applies when you call, because it changes who you deal with next.
State figures for July 2026 put the average daily census at 452, against a rated capacity of 536.
The split is the part worth knowing: 333 were unsentenced, 55 were sentenced, 52 were federal, and small numbers were parole violators or awaiting transfer to state prison. Roughly three quarters of the people in this jail are waiting on a court outcome rather than serving a sentence, which is why so much of the traffic through Inmate Records is about court dates rather than release dates.
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No. We checked the Sheriff's full site navigation rather than assuming, and there is no roster, no lookup form and no booking feed anywhere on it. The county designates the VINE custody system as its search route and staffs two phone lines for inmate records.
Inmate SearchThrough VINE, yes. New York's VINE service accepts either a name or an identification number, which matters because on the first day a name is usually all anyone has. It covers county jails across the state and refreshes roughly every 15 minutes for them.
Inmate Search607-778-1911 and press option 2 for jail inquiries. For anything records related, Inmate Records answers directly on 607-778-6007 or 607-778-2940. If the arrest was recent, Intake on 607-778-6018 is the unit that has them first.
Inmate SearchNot necessarily. Booking has to finish before any record exists, so somebody taken in an hour ago will not appear yet. Separately, agencies can go temporarily offline from VINE, and while that is happening record information is unavailable even though the person is there. Call jail inquiries before concluding anything.
Inmate SearchYes. VINE notifies on transfer as well as on release, which is useful in a county that holds a growing federal population subject to movement the county does not control. Registration for notifications is separate from running a search, and you can do one without the other.
Inmate SearchNo. It is official, it launched in July 2023 and it bundles inmate status, bail, commissary, calls and online mail into one place. But every one of those exists as a standalone web route, and visiting is arranged inside the jail whatever the app says. It is convenience, not a requirement.
Inmate SearchState data put the average daily census at 452 in July 2026, against a rated capacity of 536. Of those, 333 were unsentenced, 55 were sentenced and 52 were in federal custody. The population climbed sharply from a 2024 average of 316.
Inmate SearchIt can be. Broome holds federal detainees alongside county ones, and the number has risen from 21 in 2024 to 52 by July 2026. A separate number, 607-778-6018, is published for immigration detainee information. Ask which custody applies when you call, because it changes who handles the case and how quickly somebody can be moved.
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