This is a private reference site, not a government office. We cannot confirm custody, release someone, post bond, schedule jail services, or pull official booking records. Use the official office or locator that controls the record.
Official Whatcom Contacts
For a current Whatcom County jail question, start with the county jail or the Sheriff's Office records unit. The Public Safety Building address is used by several offices, so the suite and entrance matter.
Whatcom County Sheriff's Office
Public Safety Building
311 Grand Avenue, B1
Bellingham, WA 98225
Enter off Prospect Street
Reception: 360-778-6600
Records: 360-778-6670
Fax: 360-778-6601
Public hours: Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Whatcom County Jail
311 Grand Avenue, B2
Bellingham, WA 98225
Jail phone: 360-778-6500
Public hours: 8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
Sheriff's records requests may be made through the county's public records request portal route, in person at 311 Grand Avenue, or by email at sheriffrecords@co.whatcom.wa.us. Include enough detail to locate the record, such as a name, date, case or report number, and the type of record requested.
- Use the official Whatcom County Jail roster or jail inmate records for current county custody, booking, release, and jail-record request routes.
- Use jail roster mugshots for booking-photo limits, roster photo fields, and request options.
- Use court records after a jail arrest when the issue is a filed charge, court date, warrant, or case document.
- Use the facility pages in the footer for Whatcom County Jail, Whatcom County Interim Work Center, or Bellingham Reentry Center details.
- Use the Washington DOC incarcerated search for sentenced state custody or DOC reentry-center placement.
- Use the Federal BOP inmate locator for federal sentenced custody and the ICE Online Detainee Locator System for ICE custody.