San Carlos Police Jail

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The San Carlos Police Jail is located at 600 Elm Street in San Carlos, CA and is a medium security police department jail operated by the San Carlos Police Department.

This site tells you info about everything related to the San Carlos Police Jail, such as how to find an inmate at the San Carlos Police Jail, the jail’s address and phone number, booking and intake procedures, how to find San Mateo County court records, and more.

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Introduction

The purpose of this guide is to give you all the information and advice you need to make helping someone get out of jail easier. If you have a question, just ask it in the comment section below, and please leave any tips or comments that might help other people in the same situation would be much appreciated.

San Carlos Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The San Carlos Police Jail Inmate Locator is an online list of people who are in jail, including status, and schedule for visitation. Also, you can find information for anybody arrested and processed or discharged in the past 24 hours. Jail inmates are listed alphabetically by their last name. You can locate their inmate information faster if you enter their name, date of birth, or inmate ID.

San Carlos Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake process at the San Carlos Police Jail takes you through the following steps:

You will be placed in a holding cell. If the jail is really busy, it will take a while to get processed.

The first thing you will have to to is you will have to answer some questions, like your full legal name, street address, date of birth and an emergency contact, and you will also be asked about your medical and mental history. Next, you will be issued an inmate ID number and you will get fingerprinted. Then, Any property you have will get taken away from you and stored until you are released.

They will allow you to make a phone call to talk to a member of your family, friend, or loved one.

If they expect that you will make bail and be released quickly, you might get to wear your street clothes, but if you are not expected to make bail quickly you you will have to wear a jail jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

Once bail has been posted, you will be allowed to leave jail. Getting discharged will take anywhere from 10 minutes to many hours. In simple terms, the faster you post bail, the faster you will be freed. Also, it depends on whether you’ve got a bond amount or if a judge still needs to decide on how much to set your bail at. For minor offenses, you will simply be booked and released on your own recognizance. If you have served a sentence in jail and know the release date, plan to be discharged in the morning.

San Carlos Police Jail Visitation

Inmates have to list information about each visitor to the San Carlos Police Jail in advance of any visit. Your visitor’s names will be entered in the visitors log as an approved visitor. Each visitor is required to provide acceptable photo identification. Anyone that arrives for visitation late or that is not an approved visitor will not be allowed to attend visitation.

Visitation procedures frequently change, so you should call the facility at 650-802-4277 before you go to the jail to visit.

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Visitation Rules

Before you can visit an inmate at the San Carlos Police Jail you have to have your name on this person’s approved visitation list.

Make sure to bring your up to date government issued ID or driver’s license when you go to visitation or you will not be allowed to enter without it.

No phones at San Carlos Police Jail, and you will be searched before visiting. Personal belongings are not allowed. Anyone under must obtain the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer before they can visit. Such visitation is not normally approved.

If a visitor is younger than 18 years of age is related to the inmate, they will have to be accompanied by an adult family member or guardian to include a member of the inmate’s extended family. If a visitor is younger than 18 years of age and is not related to the inmate, the minor visitor must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.

Sending Mail to Inmates

This is what you need to know in order to send letters, photos, postcards, greeting cards and even magazines to an inmate at the San Carlos Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the San Carlos Police Jail is always searched and inspected for contraband that might threaten the security, safety or well-being of the facility, its staff, and inmates. Inmates can only receive metered, unstamped, plain white postcards no larger than 4″ x 6″ as mail. The writing on the postcard has to be in pencil or blue or black ink. If it has a stamp on it, it will get returned. If you write in green ink, then it will get returned. If you send any other kind of mail will be returned to the sender. If there is no return address on it, then the unauthorized mail will be stored in the inmate’s locker until the inmate gets release.

Do not include any of these things in the mail that you send to an inmate: any kind of threat to jail order, any description of the manufacture of weapons, bombs, incendiary devices, or tools for escape; do not encourage or advocate any kind of violence, hate speech, or racial or ethnic supremacy. Inmates are not allowed to write to other inmates.

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Sending Other Things to an Inmate

There are strict procedures that you must follow to send anything to an inmate at the San Carlos Police Jail. This includes sending money for to spend in the commissary, sending regular mail or photos, sending money for phone calls, and even postcards.

This page covers everthing you need to know about the San Carlos Police Jail to help you follow these procedures and guidelines. If you have questions, or there is something that you were looking for, but did not find, please contact us using the contact link in the site menu.

Public Records

Warrant Inquiry

If you have a warrant out for your arrest, you can check court records on the San Mateo County jail website or you can call the court directly. This requires a first and last name. Or, you can just go down to the jail and ask one of the officers. You should know that if you do have an outstanding warrant, you will be taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know a person’s name, and possibly an arrest date, contact the San Mateo County jail, by phone, go there in person, or you can check online. An arrest is public record and this is accessible to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are public records and available to anyone. Court Records include a court case file that contains a docket and all documents and filings filed in your court case. You are able to access your court records on the internet, or at the clerk’s office of the court in the jurisdiction where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each and every state keeps a record of a person’s criminal background. These databases are all linked so you are able to track criminal convictions from another state. Go to the San Mateo County Courthouse and inquire, or you can check online. It helps to know the county, and if it was in a different state, you might have to pay for a more comprehensive search.

A search of someone’s criminal history you will be able to get a report detailing any arrests, charges, or convictions that may be on a person’s record for any crimes they may have committed, which could include DUI or DWI, drug Possession of drug trafficking, kidnapping, sexual offenses including rape, assault, violent crimes including assault, battery and murder, or breaking and entering, theft, larceny.

Money & Commissary

The rules for sending funds to San Carlos Police Jail jail inmates might change, so we suggest that you visit the San Carlos Police Jail site before you send funds to an inmate.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at San Carlos Police Jail

You will have your own ‘bank account’ while in jail. This money is used to purchase items from the Commissary. Family and friends can deposit money into this account for you, and any money you earn while in prison will also be deposited into your account. Outside money can be paid in to your account via a money order, cash or check. If someone sends a check or money order, make sure that they write your inmate ID on it. The maximum amount you are allowed in your account is $290 per month.

Guidelines For Sending Money To An Inmate

Before you send any money you should find out what online money transfer companies the jail your inmate is incarcerated in uses. The exact method that the San Carlos Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 650-802-4277 to get the current payment method.

You may be required to be on the inmate’s visitation list in order to send them money, and be aware that they may have a limit on how much you deposit at one time, like $200-300 at a time, or a limit on how much money may be in the inmate’s account at one time.

Some of the money transfer firms being used by various facilities include JPay, MoneyGram, AccessCorrections, OffenderConnect, Touchpayonline, JailATM, WU, smartdeposit, and tigercommissary.

If an inmate has fines or are required to pay restitution then they will be subject to garnishment of their commissary/trust account. If the inmate has a garnishment, then money to pay them will be taken from the inmate’s bank account. In some cases it may be a percentage or the entire amount of the obligation, but the actual percentage depends on the circumstances. We recommend that inmates talk to the counselor at their facility and try to find out. You can also try to make an arrangement so that only a percentage of your commissary funds are taken, instead of all your funds take at one time.

Commissary

The commissary is the San Carlos Police Jail store. Inmates can buy several different things here, like personal items, food, and things for writing. Remember that you will probably want to buy things from the commissary on a daily basis, and any infractions will cause you to lose commissary privileges.

The Commissary will sell an assortment of different products that the inmate can buy if they have sufficient funds in their account. These products include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, in addition to hygiene products such as soap, shampoo, and disposable razors for shaving. The commissary also sells other things like books and magazines, televisions and radios, playing cards, headphones, MP3 players, and electronic tablets. They also sell everything need to write home to family, friends, and loved ones: paper, envelopes, and stamps. If an inmate is indigent and cannot afford paper and stamps, the jail will provide these things to an inmate who has not had any money in their commissary account for at least 30 days.

Phone Calls & Phone Usage Policy

All phone calls from the San Carlos Police Jail are collect calls or through a pre-paid phone account . Jail phone calls are a lot more expensive than phone calls made outside of jail. There are certain restrictions about when and how often you can use the phone, but you should keep in mind that there are a limited number of phones, so all the inmates must share phone time. If you break the jail rules, phone privileges might get reduced or forbidden.

Phone Number: 650-802-4277

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have a monopoly at each facility that they operate the phone services for, which means that they they control how much it costs to make phone calls. The profits off of all of the inmate phone calls are shared with the facility, so there is no incentive for the jail or the counselors at the facility to show inmates or their family how to save money on inmate phone calls at the San Carlos Police Jail. The rates are posted and there are at least two types of prices based on where the inmate is calling. The following three factors will determine the cost of an inmate phone call: Where you are located; Where your inmate is located, What type of phone number you have.

For example, if your inmate is in federal prison, if you get a new local number then this will decrease your inmate’s phone call rate from $.21 per minute to only $.06 per minute.

For state prisons and local jails finding out how to decrease your inmates phone charges can be more difficult. ArrestedResources.com keeps up to date with all of the changes that affect your inmate’s rate and in most cases is able to offer you an inmate calling number that will save you significantly on calling your inmate. There are some circumstances where we won’t be able to save you money on your inmate calls, and in these cases we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In these cases, the jail or prison has set their phone rates in a way that nobody can save you money.

For more detailed information on how to save on inmate calls at San Carlos Police Jail, click the link below.

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