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Questions about official Raleigh County criminal records must go to the office that keeps the original file. This private site cannot retrieve or correct a government record. The contacts below identify the local and state custodians for court documents, sheriff reports, police records, custody data, and fingerprint-based history.

This Is Not a Government Office. This private reference resource cannot retrieve a record, conduct an official check, amend a government file, or receive an expungement petition.

Need an Official Record?

Use the custodian that created or maintains the Raleigh County record:

  • Circuit case documents: Raleigh County Circuit Clerk, 222 Main Street, Beckley, WV 25801, 304-255-9135
  • Magistrate files: Raleigh County Magistrate Clerk, 222 Main Street, Beckley, WV 25801, 304-255-9197
  • Sheriff reports: Raleigh County Sheriff's Office, 308 Ned Payne Drive, Beckley, WV 25801, 304-255-9300
  • Beckley police reports: Beckley Police Department, 501 Neville Street, Beckley, WV 25801, 304-256-1720 or 304-256-1721
  • Booking and custody: West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation and its Southern Regional Jail records
  • Own fingerprint history: West Virginia State Police Criminal Identification Bureau, 725 Jefferson Road, South Charleston, WV 25309

Send a sheriff WVFOIA request through the official Documents Center, by email to FOIA@raleighcountysheriff.com, or by mail marked “FOIA Request” to the Ned Payne Drive headquarters. Court documents come from the appropriate clerk instead. Beckley Municipal Court, at 169 Industrial Drive, can be reached at 304-256-1719; its clerk counter is open Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. and closes from noon to 1:00 p.m.