Fostoria Police Jail

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The Fostoria Police Jail is located at 213 South Main Street in Fostoria, OH and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Fostoria Police Department.

This site tells you all the information about anything one might want to know about the Fostoria Police Jail, like how to find out who’s in jail at the Fostoria Police Jail, the jail’s phone number and address, intake procedures, court information, and everything else.

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Introduction

This guide is designed to give you all the info that you need to make getting locked up a lot easier. If you have a question, feel free to ask it in the comment section below, and also any comments or feedback that would be beneficial to other people in the same situation will be welcome.

Fostoria Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Fostoria Police Jail Inmate Search is an online list of individuals who are in jail, which includes custody status, and times the inmate can have visitors. Also, you are able to get information about anyone booked or released in the past 24 hour period. Inmates are shown in alphabetical order by last name. You’ll be able to locate the information faster if you’ve got your friend or family member’s full name, birth date, or inmate ID.

Fostoria Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake process at the Fostoria Police Jail includes the following steps:

They’ll put you in a holding cell. If the jail is busy, you will have to wait a while to get processed.

You must answer a bunch of questions, like your full legal name, home address, birth date and a contact person, and also, you will also be asked about your medical and psychological history. Next, You will be given an inmate ID number and you will get fingerprinted. Then, any personal property you have will get taken away from you and will be stored until you are released.

You will then be allowed to make a phone call in order to get in touch with family, friends, or loved one.

If you are expected to be released shortly, you might get to keep wearing street clothes, if not you you will have to change into a jail jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

Once bail has been posted, you will be allowed to go home after you get discharged. The discharge process may take anywhere between 10 minutes to all day long. Or, simply, the quicker bail is posted, the quicker you will get discharged. How quickly you get discharged can depend on whether you’ve got a cash bond or if a magistrate must figure out your bail amount. For a minor offense, you will simply be booked and get released without having to post bail. If you have served a sentence in jail and have a discharge date, expect to get released between 9am and noon.

Fostoria Police Jail Visitation

In order to have visitors, inmates must give each visitor’s name and date of birth to the Fostoria Police Jail in advance of any visit. This information will be put in the log for the inmate that requested the visitor. Each and every visitor must provide identification. Visitors showing up late or that is not on the visitation list will not be allowed to visit the inmate.

Jail visitation policies change often, so it would be wise to call the jail at 419-435-8573 before you go to visitation.

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Visitation Rules

To visit an inmate at the Fostoria Police Jail you have to be 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 visit or you will not be allowed to enter without it.

No phones at Fostoria Police Jail, and you will be searched before visiting. No personal belongings. Anyone parole, probation, or other corrections supervision must get the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer before they can visit. Usually is not approved.

If a visitor is under the age of 18 is related to the inmate, they must 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 a family member of the inmate, this visitor must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.

Sending Mail to Inmates

This is what you need to know about sending letters, photos, postcards, greeting cards and even magazines to an inmate at the Fostoria Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Fostoria 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 Fostoria 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 Fostoria 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 believe you have an outstanding warrant, you can find out by checking the arrest warrants inquiry online or call the court. You have to have their first and last name. Or, you can just go the jail in person and inquire at the information desk. 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 Seneca County jail, by phone, go there in person, or check online. An arrest is public record and the information is freely available.

Court Records

Court Records are public, and are accessible by anyone. These records include a court case file that includes a docket and all of the filings and documents filed in the case. You are able to access your court records on their website, or at Clerk of Court office in the county where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Every state keeps a record of their state citizen’s criminal past. These state databases are all connected and you can track criminal convictions from other states. You can go to county courthouse and inquire, or check the website. It helps to know the county, and in the event that it was in a different state entirely, you might have to pay for a more comprehensive search.

When you look up someone’s criminal record you will be able to get a report detailing any arrests, charges, or convictions that may be on a person’s record for these crimes, drug offenses, kidnapping, sex offenses which could include rape, and sexual assault, violent crimes like assault or murder, or breaking and entering, theft, larceny.

Money & Commissary

The procedure to send funds to people in jail change frequently, so you should check the Fostoria Police Jail site before you send any funds.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Fostoria 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 Fostoria Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 419-435-8573 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 Fostoria Police Jail store. An inmate can purchase different things here, like personal items, food, and things for writing. Keep in mind that you will probably want to use the commissary on a daily basis, and any infractions will cause you to lose commissary privileges.

The Commissary will sell an assortment of different items that inmates can buy if they have enough money in their trust account. These items include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, in addition to personal hygiene products like 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

The only phone calls that Fostoria Police Jail inmates are allowed to make are collect calls or through a pre-paid phone account . Jail phone calls are much more expensive than phone calls made at home. Inmates are able to make phone calls, with restrictions on when you can make phone calls, how long you can talk, and how often you can make calls, but inmates must keep in mind that there are a limited number of phones, so all the inmates must share phone time. If you are disciplined for an infraction, an inmate’s ability to use the phone could be reduced or eliminated completely.

The Fostoria Police Jail phone number is: 419-435-8573

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have a monopoly at every facility that they operate, which means that they they control how much it costs to make phone calls. The profits off of all 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 Fostoria Police Jail. The rates are posted and there are at least two pricing tiers based on where the inmate is calling. The following three factors will determine how much an inmate phone call will cost: 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 figuring out how to decrease your inmates phone charges is 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 a lot of money on inmate phone calls. There are some prisons or jails where we will not 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 facility has set their calling prices so high that nobody can save you money.

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

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