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Find the Correct Carter Office
The physical jail is at 900 E. Third Street, Elizabethton, TN 37643, and its telephone is 423-542-1855. CCSO's main Justice Center address is 900 E. Elk Avenue. For records triage, call the Sheriff's Records Division at 423-542-1852 or email Records Clerk Kim Henegar at mcwherterk@sheriff.cc. Carter County's formal records coordinator is Heather Yates, Finance Department, 801 E. Elk Avenue, Elizabethton, TN 37643; 423-547-4018; yatesh@cartercountytn.gov.
General Carter County offices publish Monday through Friday hours of 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Those hours are not a promise that a jail records counter accepts walk-ins for that whole period. Call before traveling. Use the route that fits the question.
- For a released person or release record, start with the complete Carter County search and records path.
- For parole or probation, use Post-Release Supervision and TDOC FOIL.
- For a same-day event, follow the official fallbacks on 24-Hour Releases.
- For a sentence date or alert, use Release Date Lookup or VINE Inmate Check.
- For the local jail, contact Carter County Detention Center; for the closed annex, use TDOC Records Management.
- For a sentenced Tennessee felony offender, search TDOC FOIL or call TDOC central at 615-741-1000.
- For federal or immigration custody, use the BOP or ICE agency locator tied to that commitment.
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