This is a private reference site, not a McCracken County or Kentucky government office. We cannot confirm custody, release anyone, post bond, or retrieve an official booking record. Contact the government office that holds the record for those services.
Find the Correct McCracken Office
The right contact depends on who controlled the booking, release, sentence, or supervision. The elected jailer and the Sheriff’s Office are separate custodians, so a sheriff record policy should not be assumed to cover a jail booking or release sheet.
McCracken County Jail
400 Clarence Gaines Street
Paducah, KY 42003
Phone: 270-444-4730
Call the jail information line first for current custody, a local booking, release-sheet ownership, or the custodian of a jail release log.
McCracken County Sheriff Records
300 Clarence Gaines Street
Paducah, KY 42003
Phone: 270-444-4719
Fax: 270-444-4743
Email: sheriffrecordsrequest@mccrackencountyky.gov
Hours: Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., except holidays
Use this office when the sheriff owns the requested arrest report, photograph, or other sheriff record.
McCracken County Government
300 Clarence Gaines Street
Paducah, KY 42003
Main phone: 270-444-4769
Hours: Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
The county request form is a routing fallback when the correct county custodian is uncertain.
McCracken County Courts
300 Clarence Gaines Street, Paducah
Circuit Court: 270-575-7280
District Court: 270-575-7270
Criminal District Court: 270-575-7272
Hours: Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Use the clerk and Kentucky Find a Case service for bond orders, dismissal, judgment, probation, and the legal authority behind a release.
Probation and Parole District 1
400 South 6th Street
Paducah, KY 42003
Phone: 270-575-7235
Fax: 270-575-7018
District 1 is the local Kentucky Department of Corrections contact for a matched McCracken County supervision record. Region 1 P&P Reentry Coordinator Dara Tinsley can provide general reentry navigation at 270-564-9457.
Kentucky DOC Open Records
Department of Corrections, Division of Public Affairs
Attn: Open Records Coordinator
P.O. Box 2400
Frankfort, KY 40602
Email: correctionsopenrecords@ky.gov
Fax: 502-564-9575
Include a mailing address and the person’s full name with date of birth or offender ID when requesting a state offender record.
Use these routes according to the record needed:
- For a released person or local release sheet, the home page provides the full McCracken County search and records-request path.
- For community supervision, use Parole / Probation and confirm a matching District 1 record.
- For a same-day interval, follow Released Last 24 Hours. McCracken County publishes no verified recent-release feed, so call and request an existing record.
- For a scheduled date or alert, compare the Inmate Release Date source with the VINELink Release Check. Kentucky VINE is also available at 1-800-511-1670.
- For a particular location, use the facility pages for McCracken County Jail, the regional juvenile detention center, or Keeton Corrections in Paducah.
- For a sentenced state prisoner, use Kentucky Online Offender Lookup and the Kentucky Department of Corrections record route.
- For federal or immigration custody, use the Federal Bureau of Prisons locator or the ICE Online Detainee Locator. A missing result in one system does not prove release from another.