Rockdale has a single adult lockup; the sheriff's website puts its capacity at as many as 720 inmates. The sheriff's headquarters address is 911 Chambers Drive NW, Conyers, GA 30012, with a main line of 770-278-8000. The sheriff's contact page lists the jail at 770-278-8265, with bond questions going to the Bonding Clerk at 770-278-8204. The same office guards the courthouse and runs two precincts. Arrests made by Conyers officers are booked into this same jail, so a single call covers city and county arrests.

The sheriff's home page links an Inmate Lookup run on the county's online records portal, which is the Rockdale inmate lookup on this page. Enter a last name, then narrow by first name if the list is long. New bookings lag behind the arrest, and Detention center staff at 770-278-8265 can check a name that has not posted yet. After a transfer to the state system, look in the corrections department's Find an Offender. People handed to immigration officers appear in the ICE detainee locator instead.

First appearance hearings start at 9:30 a.m., according to the sheriff's Judicial Services page. Monday and Wednesday hearings are held in person, while Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday hearings are virtual. Relatives who want to attend must first get approval from a Magistrate Court judge by contacting that court at 874 N. Main Street NW, Conyers, GA 30012, 770-278-7800. The deadlines come from state law: 48 hours without a warrant (Code section 17-4-62) and 72 hours with one (Code section 17-4-26).

The sheriff's bonding page lists three routes. Cash bonds are paid in cash or by cashier's check for the full amount. Real estate pledged for a property bond must be improved land, and the jail takes those bonds during weekday business hours, other than holidays, for a $20 fee in exact cash. Sureties on the sheriff's list are held to a 15 percent fee ceiling, the same cap found in Code section 17-6-30. Charges listed in Code section 17-6-1, such as murder, rape and armed robbery, can be bonded only by a superior court judge. Rockdale's Bonding Clerk is reached at 770-278-8204; more detail is in the Rockdale bail guide.

For warrant checks, the sheriffs' 2024 directory gives Rockdale's number as 770-278-8009, and the caller needs the person's full name and date of birth. The sheriff's home page also posts a Warrants Issued section with recent cases. The GBI posts a statewide fugitive list, limited to its most wanted. Warrant applications and first appearances run through Magistrate Court, 874 N. Main Street NW, Conyers, GA 30012, 770-278-7800. For court files and hearing dates, use the Clerk of Courts, 922 Court Street NE, Conyers, GA 30012, 770-278-7900. Counsel can set up a planned turn-in so that bond gets addressed at booking.

According to the county's page, Rockdale's public defenders take criminal matters in two courts only: State and Superior. Eligibility depends on income, and each person must come in for an assessment in person. Call ahead for an appointment so an attorney is available. The office is at 882 Main St., Olde Town Conyers, GA 30012, phone 770-278-7820, fax 770-918-6313. It does not handle civil matters or traffic court, and juvenile cases go through Juvenile Court, whose clerk answers at 770-278-7777. The assessment asks for income records and the case number.

Family and friends visit by video from home through the jail's video-visit provider, the sheriff's visitation page explains, while lobby visits are reserved for attorneys. A visit can be scheduled starting 24 hours after booking, and Inmate Affairs takes up to 24 hours to approve a new account. Sessions normally run from 5:30 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. on weekdays, and on weekends from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. Every visit is monitored, the person who booked it must be on camera, and visiting while driving is not allowed. Inmate Affairs answers at 770-278-8209; the provider's customer service is 800-844-6591. See our Rockdale visitation page.

Phone and video contact with someone in the jail starts with an account with the jail's phone and video provider, the company the sheriff names for visits, whose customer service line is 800-844-6591. Questions about a blocked account or a missing call log go to Inmate Affairs at 770-278-8209; leave a message if nobody answers. Messages can also move through the jail's online deposit and mail account that now receives scanned mail. The sheriff states that every visit is monitored, so keep the facts of the case out of the conversation. Our Rockdale inmate phone page and messaging page cover more.

Money for a jail account goes through the jail's online deposit service, the one named on the sheriff's Inmate Services page, at the online deposit site. A mailed money order or cashier's check made out with the inmate's name also works, as does the cash kiosk in the jail lobby. Inmates buy hygiene items, extra supplies and all clothing through the commissary kiosk in their dorm, and people with no funds receive an indigent kit. On arrival everyone gets shower shoes, a hygiene kit and a jumpsuit. Details continue on the Rockdale money page; for store items see the commissary page.

Since February 10, 2025, personal letters are no longer accepted at the jail. Address them to the jail's mail-scanning service exactly as the sheriff lists it for the Rockdale County Jail, with the inmate's name and number, 925B Peachtree St. NE, Box 2062, Atlanta, GA 30309, where they are scanned into the inmate's online account. Bulk mail such as printed web pages is refused. Lawyers representing the inmate still mail straight to the jail; the envelope must read "Private Legal Mail" and show the inmate's name and cell location. Rockdale County Jail's street address for that legal mail is 911 Chambers Drive NW, Conyers, GA 30012, 770-278-8265. Books, magazines and newspapers must come straight from a publisher or bookseller, and hardcover books are refused. See our Rockdale mail page.

Rockdale's Juvenile Court, which the state Supreme Court's county roster places at 884 Green Street SW, Conyers, GA 30012, takes all youth cases. Its clerk answers at 770-278-7777, and the court posts a court-appointed attorney application for families who need a lawyer. Detained youth go to DJJ's Rockdale RYDC, 2165 Chambers Dr NW, Conyers, GA 30012, 770-785-5942, which also serves Newton and Walton counties and sits on the same road as the county jail. Parents unsure where a child was taken can ask the sheriff's switchboard, 770-278-8000.

Medical care in the jail is provided by a contracted medical company, and the sheriff's Inmate Services page lists that provider's friends and family line at 800-592-4611, answered by a team of nurses. Under HIPAA, the patient must first sign a Release of Information form before nurses can share details with relatives. Anything urgent, whether seizures, diabetes or suicide risk, should be phoned to the detention center at 770-278-8265 without delay. Eyeglasses may be brought in only with plastic frames, never metal. The defense lawyer can also raise a medical need with the judge at the next hearing.

A federal case out of Rockdale lands in Atlanta, the division 28 U.S.C. section 90 assigns to the county within the Northern District. Its clerk works from the Russell federal courthouse, 75 Ted Turner Drive SW, Atlanta, GA 30303-3309, 404-215-1600, open 8:00 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. on weekdays except federal holidays. A magistrate judge in Atlanta holds the detention hearing, and the U.S. Marshals may house a pretrial defendant in a county jail. Post-sentence moves by the Bureau of Prisons can be traced on its online inmate locator.

1. Step 1: Within two days of each arrival, Georgia's Code section 42-4-14 has the jailer make a reasonable effort to learn nationality; the check applies to every booking, not only non-citizens.
2. Step 2: Through Form I-247A, ICE may request that Rockdale hold a person as long as 48 hours beyond the release time, and 8 CFR 287.7(d) does not count Saturdays, Sundays or holidays in that window.
3. Step 3: According to the sheriff's HB 1105 page, the 2024 Georgia Criminal Alien Track and Report Act requires jailers to notify ICE, honor detainers and post quarterly reports, which the sheriff publishes.
4. Step 4: Code section 36-80-23, on the books since 2009, bars Conyers and the county from adopting a sanctuary policy.
5. Step 5: Once ICE takes custody, families in Conyers can use the ICE online detainee locator or phone the Atlanta field office, 180 Ted Turner Dr. SW, Suite 522, Atlanta, GA 30303, 404-893-1290.
6. Step 6: When documents do not establish nationality, a jail supervisor contacts the federal Law Enforcement Support Center or ICE's Atlanta office, and the same section keeps bond available to anyone otherwise eligible.

Custody passes to ICE only when officers appear at the Conyers jail inside the permitted window; after the handoff, detainees are typically moved to immigration detention outside Rockdale and possibly outside Georgia.

State prison sentences begin with a wait at the Sigman Industrial Court jail until corrections officers pick the person up for intake and classification. After that a permanent prison is assigned; Find an Offender tracks each transfer. Rockdale probationers report to DCS at its Conyers Field Office, 981 East Freeway Dr. SE, Suite B, Conyers, GA 30094, 770-388-5011, open 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on weekdays. Before pickup, jail staff (770-278-8265) know if the person has left. Bring the sentencing order to the first meeting with the officer. Our Georgia state prisons overview explains, prison by prison, how visits and letters work.

Rockdale's jail lookup is the starting point for checking a booking record before asking about a mugshot. Booking photos and incident reports are requested through the Open Records Request process on the sheriff's Judicial Services pages; the switchboard is 770-278-8000. People in U.S. Marshals custody fall under federal rules, so the Marshals decide on any release of their photos. For a person held by immigration officers, records requests go through ICE FOIA, which works online. Court paperwork tied to the arrest is filed with the Clerk of Courts, 922 Court Street NE, Conyers, GA 30012, 770-278-7900. Georgia Code 35-1-19 bars arresting agencies, the Rockdale sheriff included, from posting booking photographs on websites. A requester, news organizations among them, can still obtain a copy after a written promise that no removal-fee operator will get it. Rockdale defendants who win acquittal or dismissal may send a certified letter; under 10-1-393.5, such a site has 30 days to erase the picture at no cost.

Rockdale County Sheriff's Office: 770-278-8000
Rockdale County Jail: 770-278-8265
Sheriff's warrant line: 770-278-8009
Non-emergency dispatch: 770-483-4200
Conyers Police Department, 1194 Scott Street, Conyers, GA 30012: 770-929-4201

In the 2024 sheriffs' directory Conyers is Rockdale's lone city police agency, and its prisoners go to the county jail. Outside city limits, patrol comes from the sheriff's two precincts. For bond money, the Bonding Clerk at the sheriff's office answers at 770-278-8204, and the Magistrate Court, 874 N. Main Street NW, Conyers, takes calls at 770-278-7800. The anonymous tip line is 770-278-8188. If an emergency is happening now, call 911.