This is a private reference site, not a Shelby County government office. It cannot confirm whether someone is in custody, release a person, post bond, schedule visitation, or obtain official booking records. For those actions, use the official office that holds the record or controls the custody decision.
Where to Start for Shelby County Records
Use the office below that matches the type of question. The county jailer page at shelbycounty.ky.gov/departments/Pages/jailer.aspx, the sheriff page at shelbycounty.ky.gov/departments/Pages/sheriff.aspx, and the court clerk page at kycourts.gov/Courts/County-Information/Pages/Shelby.aspx are the primary official contact sources reflected in this guide.
Shelby County Detention Center
Jailer Darrell Cox
1000 Detention Road
Shelbyville, KY 40065
502-633-2343
Fax: 502-647-1457
Office hours: 8 AM to 4 PM
Shelby County Sheriff's Office
Sheriff Mark Moore
501 Main Street, Suite 8
Shelbyville, KY 40065
Office: 502-633-4324
Dispatch: 502-633-2323
Fax: 502-633-9677
Office hours: Monday-Friday, 8:30am-4:30pm
Shelby County Judicial Center
Circuit Court Clerk Wendy B. Graney
401 Main St., Suite 101
Shelbyville, KY 40065
Circuit: 502-633-1287
District: 502-633-4736
For common inmate-record tasks, the quickest path is usually:
- For someone held in the local jail, start with jail inmate records and the Shelby County Detention Center roster.
- For booking photos connected to the jail list, review jail roster mugshots before assuming a photo is available.
- For charges, court dates, arraignments, or dispositions after arrest, use court records after a jail arrest and the Shelby County Judicial Center.
- For facility-specific custody information, use the Shelby County Detention Center and Shelby County JRC pages listed in the footer.
- No official Shelby County inmate-search app was verified in the research for this project, so use the official web roster and agency contacts instead of assuming an app has current custody data.
- For a sentenced Kentucky prisoner, use the Kentucky DOC KOOL locator instead of the county roster.
- For federal or immigration custody, use the BOP inmate locator or ICE Online Detainee Locator System, because those systems are separate from Shelby County jail records.