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Livingston County Jail Custody

Livingston County Jail is operated by the Livingston County Sheriff's Office through its Correctional Services Bureau. The sheriff's office and jail are in Geneseo, the county seat. The jail is not a state prison and is not an independent county corrections department. It is a sheriff-run local jail used for arrest processing, pre-arraignment detention, pretrial custody, pre-sentence custody, short county sentences, and certain holds for other authorities.

The county's jail healthcare RFP describes Livingston County Jail as a 194-bed correctional facility operated by the sheriff. That same county source says the facility houses local unarraigned, pretrial, pre-sentencing, and sentenced inmates, and it can also house boarded-in U.S. Marshal detainees, other county inmates, and parolees. That mix matters for a Livingston County Jail inmate search because a person in the building may be in local criminal court custody, federal pretrial custody, parole custody, or awaiting transfer.

The Correctional Services Bureau page identifies Chief Deputy Aaron Galvin as the bureau lead and Captain Jeremy Slocum as the Jail Division official overseeing day-to-day administrative functions. The bureau services the jail, County Court House, and Alternatives to Incarceration. The same page gives a local staffing snapshot with sergeants, full-time deputies, part-time deputies, and civilian staff assigned to the corrections operation.

Livingston County Jail Population

Livingston County Jail has a documented rated capacity of 194 beds. The strongest population source in the research is the DCJS/SCOC Annual Jail Population Trends report prepared on February 2, 2026. It reports average daily jail counts sent by local jails to the State Commission of Correction. For 2025, Livingston County Jail had an annual average census of 121 and an in-house average of 126. The difference reflects boarded-out and boarded-in people, so both figures are useful when reading the jail population.

The 2025 in-house average included 57 federal detainees, 24 sentenced inmates, 5 state readies, 2 technical parole violators, and 38 other unsentenced inmates. Federal detainees were the largest single listed category in that year. The 126 in-house average was about 65 percent of the 194-bed rated capacity, but that is an annual average, not a promise about a specific day. Intake, court orders, transfers, and federal boarding can change the Livingston County Jail inmate population quickly.

Livingston County Jail Lookup

Livingston County does not appear to publish a separate sheriff-hosted current jail roster on the sheriff website. The official county-jail lookup route is the New York State Commission of Correction path to VINELink for county jails outside New York City. VINELink is a custody-information and victim-notification tool. It is the best online start for a current Livingston County Jail custody check, but it is not a full booking packet and may not answer every records question.

The Livingston County Jail phone fallback is the Jail Division at 585-243-7180. Callers should have the person's full legal name, date of birth or approximate age, arresting agency, and arrest date if known. Staff may limit what can be released by phone for sealed, juvenile, medical, safety, or protected information. For copies of booking records, arrest reports, charge lists, bail or remand status, and other jail records, the sheriff's FOIL request form is the formal route.

1. Open VINELink and search New York county jail custody records for the person's name or other available identifier.
2. Check whether the custody result points to Livingston County Jail rather than another county or state facility.
3. Call the Jail Division if the result is missing, unclear, or time-sensitive.
4. Use the Sheriff's FOIL form when a copy of a booking, arrest, jail, or complaint record is needed.

The Livingston County jail inmate records page explains the wider custody search chain when a person may have moved from booking to court, DOCCS, BOP, or ICE custody.

Livingston County Jail Contacts

The working address for the jail and sheriff complex is the same official Court Street address used by the Livingston County Sheriff's Office. The county staff directory separately lists the Jail Division in Geneseo with its direct phone number. Public-records questions use the records number shown on the sheriff's official FOIL form, while general sheriff business uses the main sheriff number.

The county directory entry for the Jail Division is a useful source when verifying the jail phone number. The sheriff homepage lists the broader Sheriff's Office contact number as 585-243-7100.

Livingston County Jail Visit Rules

Official Livingston County, New York specific jail visiting rules were not located in the current sheriff or county sources reviewed. That gap is important. A similarly named Livingston County jail handbook found during research was for another state and should not be used for Geneseo, New York. Family, friends, attorneys, and clergy should confirm rules with the Jail Division before traveling, sending documents, or assuming that a visit is allowed on a certain day.

Visitors should ask whether visits are in person, video, or both; whether scheduling is required; whether the incarcerated person must add a visitor to an approved list; what identification is required; and whether children may attend. The Geneseo jail sits in a county courthouse and sheriff complex, so entry routes, screening, and public parking may differ from the booking entrance. Arrive only after current rules are confirmed.

Livingston County Jail Mail

Current Livingston County Jail mail, phone, tablet, commissary, and money-deposit policies were not found in official Livingston County, New York sources during the research pass. Do not send funds through a vendor based only on a third-party jail page. Call the Jail Division first and ask for the approved deposit method, accepted payment types, fee schedule, and any limits on commissary orders.

For mail, confirm the correct address format before sending anything. A cautious format to verify is the incarcerated person's full name, booking number if known, Livingston County Jail, 4 Court St, Geneseo, NY 14454. Jail staff may give a different scanning vendor, publication rule, photo rule, or legal mail instruction. Attorney mail and professional documents may follow a separate path.

Livingston County Jail Booking

Recent sheriff releases show the jail's role in Central Booking and LC-CAP arraignment. In local arrest examples, defendants were turned over to Central Booking Deputies for processing and pre-arraignment detention, then arraigned through LC-CAP at the jail. Booking is the jail intake step. It is separate from the later court record, where the prosecutor, judge, defense counsel, and clerk handle charges, bail, remand, and future appearances.

Some Livingston County Jail inmates are local pretrial defendants. Others may be held for U.S. Marshals, other counties, parole matters, or state transfer. A "state ready" is a person in jail who is ready or waiting for state prison transfer. A technical parole violator is held because of an alleged parole rule violation, not always because of a new local conviction. Those categories explain why a Livingston County Jail custody search may need VINELink, a phone call, FOIL, DOCCS lookup, or a federal locator.

The Sheriff's FOIL information page says criminal reports and complaints maintained by the Sheriff's Office are handled under Article 6 of the New York Public Officers Law. The online form says responses follow Public Officers Law section 89 and warns that copying charges may apply. A precise request should name the person, date, agency, and records sought.

Livingston Jail Record Sources

The county's jail healthcare services RFP page is the source that identifies Livingston County Jail as a 194-bed sheriff-operated correctional facility and describes the mix of local and boarded-in jail populations.

That source is especially useful because it ties the facility name, operator, capacity, and population types together in a county document rather than a third-party jail listing.

The Correctional Services Bureau page supplies local context about jail leadership, staffing, and the bureau's role with the jail, courthouse, and Alternatives to Incarceration.

Those bureau details help separate sheriff-run Livingston County Jail custody from state prison custody at Groveland Correctional Facility.

Livingston County Jail Custody Notes

Livingston County's justice offices are clustered in Geneseo. The sheriff's history page says the county was formed in 1821, Geneseo became the county seat, and the Wadsworth family donated the property where the sheriff's office, courthouse, and jail are located. That history explains why jail, courthouse, district attorney, clerk, and government-center functions are close together on Court Street.

The Sheriff's Office describes its accreditation history as broad, with Corrections accreditation beginning in 1997. The Professional Standards Bureau page states the office is accredited in the Jail Division, 911 Center, Road Patrol, Civil, and Court Security. The State Commission of Correction separately oversees local correctional facilities, population reporting, standards, construction matters, mortality review, and related jail issues across New York.

Livingston County Jail is distinct from Groveland Correctional Facility. Groveland is a DOCCS state prison for sentenced adult males, while the county jail is the local sheriff facility for pretrial, local-sentence, federal-boarded, and other county-custody categories.