• Dorchester County Detention Center, 829 Fieldcrest Road, Cambridge, MD 21613, 410-228-8101.
• Commissioner: 310 Gay Street, Cambridge, 410-901-1430.

Phone Fieldcrest Road at 410-228-8101; VINELink also tracks custody status and sends alerts. Court records are on Case Search.

A commissioner sets terms; a judge reviews them the next court day if needed. See our bail guide.

Ask the Dorchester County Sheriff's Office at 410-228-4141, answered 24 hours a day at 829 Fieldcrest Road. Cambridge and Hurlock police can look up their own cases. Have the full name and birth date ready.

Speak with a lawyer before a surrender at the Fieldcrest Road jail, which shares the Sheriff's address. Was it a missed court date? Then call a clerk and request another: Circuit Court, 206 High Street, Cambridge, 410-228-0481; District Court, 310 Gay Street, 410-901-1420.

The state's case lookup shows filed charges, not warrants.

The commissioner on Gay Street sets terms: release on a promise, conditions, a bond amount or no bail. A judge reviews them at the next District Court session if the person is still inside. The bail in this county page explains how to pay.

Fieldcrest Road releases appear on VINELink, where you can register. It is free and can call, text or email you when the person is released or moved.

The commissioner at 310 Gay Street, 410-901-1430, within 24 hours, then a District Court judge at 310 Gay Street, 410-901-1420, if the person stays in jail. The commissioner also tells them the charges and whether they may get a public defender. Our court guide lists later hearings.

For first appearances, 310 Gay Street: 410-901-1420. For felony trials, Circuit Court at 206 High Street: 410-228-0481.

310 Gay Street, 410-221-2570. DC-099 comes first.

The Gay Street and High Street courts post charges, dates and outcomes on Maryland Judiciary Case Search. Full files: 410-228-0481. Cited rather than arrested in Cambridge? Must-appear charges mean a preliminary inquiry, usually within five business days.

Call 410-228-8101 for current visiting rules, and see our visitation guide.

• Fieldcrest Road jail calls are recorded: our phone guide.
• Message service, where offered: our messaging guide.
• Letters: our mail guide.
• Funds: our money page and commissary page.

Ask the Sheriff's Office at 410-228-4141 about requests. ICE booking photos must be requested through ICE's FOIA office. Federal booking photos are not released to the public or the press, except that the U.S. Marshals Service may publish one while looking for a fugitive.

A federal case never goes through the Cambridge courts; federal charges go to the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland: Baltimore clerk 410-962-2600, Greenbelt 301-344-0660. A magistrate settles detention. Marshals for the District of Maryland, 410-962-2220, keep pretrial custody. The BOP inmate locator shows people serving federal time.

1. Cambridge booking prints may prompt an ICE Form I-247A.
2. Requested hold: up to 48 hours after they would otherwise be released (8 CFR 287.7(d)). Bail in this county does not lift it.
3. Agents can collect the person at Fieldcrest Road during that time; otherwise release follows.
4. ICE picks the facility. Use the ICE detainee locator. The ICE Baltimore Field Office is at 31 Hopkins Plaza, 6th Floor, Baltimore, MD 21201, 410-637-4000.

A person moved out of Cambridge to state prison is on the DPSCS locator, with addresses in our Maryland prisons directory.

Youth intake runs through the Maryland Department of Juvenile Services, 217 E. Redwood Street, Baltimore, MD 21202, 410-230-3100.

Call the Dorchester County Sheriff's Office yourself at 410-228-4141; its office at 829 Fieldcrest Road answers 24 hours a day, and the lobby is open weekdays 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. The Sheriff warns that scammers use its app's inmate search to call families and offer to get someone released for a fee. Bail and court fees are never paid with gift cards or cryptocurrency, and the office never asks for money through unofficial channels. Report fakes: 410-528-8662.

Unposted online. 410-228-8101 covers medical requests and Fieldcrest Road jail property.

Dorchester's agencies, led by the Sheriff's Office, 410-228-4141, and Cambridge police, 410-228-3333, reported 982 serious crimes in 2020, by the Maryland open data county table from State Police reports. Violent crimes rose to 207 from 188 in 2010, while property crimes fell to 775 from 1,000. Larceny led with 579 cases.

File in the court that heard it: District Court on Gay Street, 410-901-1420, or the Circuit Court on High Street, 410-228-0481. If the case ended without a guilty finding, such as a dismissal, stet, nolle prosequi, acquittal or probation before judgment, expungement costs nothing. A qualifying guilty case costs $30, and the clerk can waive it for people who cannot pay. Since October 2021, cases where all charges were dropped or found not guilty are erased automatically after three years.

Ask the Circuit Court clerk, 410-228-0481, which listed convictions qualify. Shielding hides a conviction from Case Search and the public but not from police. The wait is three years after the full sentence and any probation ends, and a new conviction during that time ends eligibility. Each person gets one shielding request in a lifetime, covering one court in one county.

Dorchester's District Court, 310 Gay Street, 410-901-1420, hears bail reviews, preliminary hearings, misdemeanors and some felonies. It holds no jury trials; when a defendant asks for a jury, the case moves to the Circuit Court on High Street, 410-228-0481.

• Cambridge Police Department, 410-228-3333.
• Hurlock Police Department, 410-943-4181.
• Dorchester County Sheriff's Office, 829 Fieldcrest Road, Cambridge, MD 21613, 410-228-4141.
• Maryland State Police, Easton Barrack I, 7053 Ocean Gateway, Easton, MD 21601, 410-819-4747.

Brookview, Church Creek, East New Market, Eldorado, Galestown, Secretary and Vienna have no police department; the Sheriff's Office and the Easton barrack respond there. Emergencies: 911.