This website is a private reference site, not a Lea County government office. We cannot confirm whether someone is in custody, release a detainee, post bond, schedule visitation, pull official booking records, or change a court or jail record. Use the official Lea County, New Mexico court, NMCD, BOP, or ICE channels below for those tasks.
Where to Direct Lea County Questions
Start with the office that controls the record or custody stage. Published Lea County sources refer to normal business hours for records inspection, but the research materials did not provide a separate public hours schedule for the jail records window or sheriff records desk.
Lea County Detention Center
Use LCDC for current local jail custody questions, Adult Records faxing, juvenile-control questions, and detention-center records maintained by the jail.
- Address: 1401 South Commercial Street, Lovington, NM 88260
- Main phone: 575-396-8669
- Adult Records fax: 575-396-1178
- Juvenile Control: 575-396-8678
Lea County Sheriff's Office
Use sheriff records for law-enforcement reports and sheriff public-information requests. The official directory names Corey Helton as Sheriff.
- Address: 1417 South Commercial Street, Lovington, NM 88260
- Main phone: 575-396-3611
- Records phone: 575-396-8289
- Fax: 575-396-8299 or 575-396-6242
- Email: lcsorecords@leacounty.net
- Hobbs substation: 575-397-9600
County IPRA Requests
For county government records that are not sheriff or detention records, use the county's IPRA custodian. Lea County identifies Monica M. Russell as the records custodian.
- Address: 100 N Main Avenue Suite 4, Lovington, NM 88260
- Phone: 575-396-9110
- Fax: 575-396-2093
- Email: recordsrequest@leacounty.net
Courts, State Prison, Federal, and Immigration Custody
- Someone in the county jail: review jail inmate records, then verify with LCDC when identity, bond, release, or custody status matters.
- Booking photos: read jail roster mugshots before requesting a photo, because the public LCDC roster inspected for this site did not display mugshots.
- Charges filed after arrest: use court records after a jail arrest, New Mexico Case Lookup, and the Fifth Judicial District. Lea County District Court is at 100 N. Love St., Lovington, phone 575-396-8571.
- Facility-specific questions: use the Lea County Detention Center and Lea County Correctional Facility pages listed in the footer.
- Sentenced New Mexico state prisoner: search through the New Mexico Corrections Department offender search, not the county jail roster.
- Federal or immigration detainee: use the Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate locator for sentenced federal inmates and the ICE Online Detainee Locator System for ICE custody.