Monroe County answers this question with a PDF rebuilt each weekday morning rather than a search box, so you read down a list instead of typing a name into one. The search below is a faster place to start.
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Monroe County, New York publishes who is in its jail. What it does not publish is a way to search it. What the county posts instead is a set of documents rebuilt on weekday mornings and stamped with the moment they were made, and you read down them by eye. The one most families need is the roster, which is alphabetical and carries the MCJ number that every other process at this jail is keyed to.
The document the county calls the roster gives you exactly this, and nothing more:
| Column | What it holds |
|---|---|
| MCJ# | The jail identification number |
| Last Name | Surname |
| First Name | Forename |
| Date of Entry | The day custody started |
No date of birth. No charges. No bail figure. No housing unit. It is a list of who is there, sorted A to Z, several hundred names long, with a line at the top telling you when it was generated.
That sounds thin until you notice what the MCJ number does. The envelope needs it. The deposit needs it. The visit request form needs it. The roster is the one free document that hands it to you, which is why it is worth opening before anything else.
Monroe County posts four separate documents and they are easy to confuse. This is what each one is for.
The roster. Everyone currently held, alphabetical, four columns. Use it to confirm somebody is there and to get the MCJ number.
The census. The heavy one, running to roughly 249 pages. Each person gets a block carrying a JID, sex, race, custody date, custody time and a classification that reads either UNSENTENCED or SENTENCED. Under that sits one line per charge, with bail, bond, court, judge, court date, arresting agency and a description of the charge. Use it when you need to know what somebody is facing and what bail was set at.
The received report. One day of bookings, with date of birth included, which the roster leaves out. Use it when the arrest happened yesterday.
The released report. One day of releases, about five pages, ending with a plain count of the total. Use it when you have been told somebody is out and want to see it written down.
This is a real quirk of the documents and it costs people a search.
The name columns are narrow, so longer names sometimes print without the spaces you would expect. A person called Jose Camacho Martinez can appear as one unbroken run of letters. Hyphenated surnames sometimes wrap onto a second line, which puts half the name where your eye is not looking.
So if a name you are certain about does not appear:
A blank result from a first pass down the page is not proof of anything.
Search for a Monroe County jail dashboard and a polished interactive one comes back, hosted on ArcGIS, showing active bookings and charges. It is Monroe County, Indiana. It serves the Charlotte T. Zietlow Justice Center in Bloomington, its population figures run in the low hundreds, and it has nothing to do with New York.
Monroe County, New York operates no public jail dashboard at all. Its mapping portal carries nothing on corrections. The PDFs are the whole public offering.
This is the sharpest version of a problem that runs through every search for this jail. Monroe County exists in Michigan, Indiana, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Georgia and Florida, and the results mix all of them together. The three tells that you are looking at the right one are area code 585, Rochester, NY 14614, and the phrase MCJ number.
The documents are regenerated Monday through Friday. They are not rebuilt at the weekend.
That has a practical consequence nobody warns you about. Somebody arrested on a Friday night or over the weekend will not appear until the following weekday rebuild, however certain you are that they were taken in. The absence is the publishing schedule, not the custody status.
If you cannot wait for the next rebuild, the phone is the only route, and Jail Administration answers on 585-753-4300.
Every other thing you will do at this jail asks for it.
Take it down once, properly, and you will not have to scroll a several hundred name list again each time something asks.
Three numbers, doing three different jobs.
| Reason for calling | Number |
|---|---|
| Jail Administration and incarcerated individual information | 585-753-4300 |
| Booking a visit | 585-753-4000 |
| Bail questions | 585-753-4182 |
The first is the one to use when a name is not appearing and you need a person rather than a document. The Sheriff’s Office main line is 585-753-4178 if none of those three fit.
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Not in a search box, because the county does not run one. What it publishes is an alphabetical roster in PDF form, so you find a name by reading down it or by using your PDF reader's own find function. The list is sorted by surname, which makes a name the practical way in even though there is no form to type it into.
Inmate SearchFour columns: MCJ number, last name, first name and date of entry. That is all of it. There is no date of birth, no charge, no bail amount and no housing unit on the roster. For charges and bail you need the separate census document, which is far longer and organised one block per person.
Inmate SearchThe ArcGIS dashboard that ranks well in search results is Monroe County, Indiana, serving Bloomington. Monroe County, New York publishes no dashboard. If you are looking at an interactive map of bookings, you are in the wrong state. Check for area code 585 and a Rochester address.
Inmate SearchThe documents are rebuilt on weekday mornings only. An arrest overnight will not show until the next rebuild, and an arrest on a Friday evening may not show until Monday. Booking also has to finish before any record exists. If you cannot wait, call Jail Administration on 585-753-4300.
Inmate SearchTry it without spaces or hyphens. The name columns are narrow and longer names sometimes print as one unbroken run of letters, while hyphenated surnames can wrap onto the next line. Searching the document for a four or five letter fragment rather than the full name catches both cases.
Inmate SearchIt is the jail identification number Monroe County assigns, and it is the first column of the roster. You need it for the envelope, for any commissary deposit and for a visit request, so write it down the first time you see it. Mail without the number on it, alongside a first and last name, is not accepted.
Inmate SearchThe roster confirms somebody is in custody and gives you their number. The census tells you what they are facing. It carries sex, race, custody date and time, whether they are sentenced or unsentenced, and then a line for each charge with bail, bond, the court, the judge, the court date and the arresting agency. It also runs to hundreds of pages.
Inmate SearchThe county runs two sites: the jail at 130 S. Plymouth Avenue and the Andrew P. Meloni STAR Academy at 750 East Henrietta Road. The two have separate mailing addresses and separate lobby kiosks, so it matters. The published documents do not make the distinction obvious, which makes 585-753-4300 the reliable way to confirm which building before you drive anywhere.
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