Edmonds Police Jail

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The Edmonds Police Jail is located at 250 Fifth Avenue North in Edmonds, WA and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Edmonds Police Department.

This guide tells you information about everything you might need to know about the Edmonds Police Jail, like how to locate an inmate, the jail’s address and phone number, intake procedures and booking, court information and records, and everything else.

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Introduction

This guide is designed to give information and tips that you need to make the process easier. If you have a specific question, just ask it, and please leave any feedback or comments that could be a benefit to others will be much appreciated.

Edmonds Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Edmonds Police Jail Inmate Locator is a roster of individuals currently in custody, which includes custody status, and times the inmate can have visitors. You can get the same information on anybody arrested and processed or released within the past 24 hour period. Prisoners are shown in alphabetical order by last name. You can get their arrest information more quickly if you’ve got the arrestee’s name, date of birth, or inmate ID.

Edmonds Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake procedure at the Edmonds Police Jail is made up of each of these steps:

They’ll put you in a holding cell. If the jail is busy, you will have to wait, sometimes for many hours, before you get processed.

First, you will have to answer some simple questions, like what is your full legal name, your address, birthdate and an emergency contact, and also, you will also be asked about your mental and medical history. Next, you will be issued an inmate number and your fingerprints will be taken. Then, Any property you have will be taken away from you and stored until you get discharged from jail.

You will get to make a telephone call so you can talk to a family member, friend, or loved-on.

If they expect that you will make bail and be released quickly, you will be allowed to wear your street clothes, otherwise you you will be given a jail issued jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

Once you are able to post bail, you will get discharged from jail. The discharge process takes anywhere between 15 minutes to many hours. Or, simply, the quicker you post bail, the sooner you will get discharged from jail. Also, it can depend on if you’ve got a cash bond or if the magistrate must decide on how much your bail will be. For a minor charge, you will get booked and released on your own recognizance. When you have served out your jail sentence and have a date of your release, plan to get discharged between 9am and noon.

Edmonds Police Jail Visitation

In order to have visitors, inmates have to give each visitor’s name to the Edmonds Police Jail in advance. Your visitor’s names will go in the visitors log as an approved visitor. All visitors will have to provide identification. Visitors that gets to visitation or without a visiting order will be turned away.

Jail visitation policies can change, so you should call the official Edmonds Police Jail at 425-771-0200 before you go to visitation.

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Visitation Rules

In order to visit someone at the Edmonds Police Jail you have to be added to this person’s approved visitation list.

Make sure to take your valid driver’s license or government issued ID when you go to visitation or you will not be allowed to enter.

No phones at Edmonds Police Jail, and you will be searched before you can visit. Personal belongings are not allowed. Anybody currently on must get the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer prior to a visit. This kind of visitation is not approved.

If a visitor is younger than 18 years of age 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 the visitor is younger than 18 years old and is not a family member of the inmate, the minor 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 Edmonds Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Edmonds 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 Edmonds 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 Edmonds 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 think you might have an outstanding warrant, you are able to check the court records on the Snohomish County jail website or you can call the jail. You have to have their first and last name. Or, you can just go the jail in person and ask one of the officers. Bear in mind that if there is an arrest warrant out for you, they will take you into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know the person’s name, as well as their arrest date, contact the Snohomish County jail, by phone, go there in person, or find out online. Arrest records are public record and this is accessible by the public.

Court Records

Court Records are public records. These records include a court case file that includes a docket sheet and any of the documents filed in the case. You can access your court records on the internet, or at the Snohomish County Clerk of Court where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each state keeps a record of their state citizen’s criminal background. These state databases are linked together so you can track criminal convictions from another state. 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 completely different state, you may have to pay for a more complete search.

When you look up a person’s crminal records you will get a listing of all the arrests, charges, or convictions for crimes, which include, drug Possession, kidnapping, sexual offenses including rape, assault, violent crimes including assault, battery and murder, or theft.

Money & Commissary

The process for sending funds to inmates at the Edmonds Police Jail change frequently, so visit the Edmonds Police Jail site before send money to someone in jail there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Edmonds 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 Edmonds Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 425-771-0200 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 Edmonds Police Jail store. An inmate can purchase different things here, like toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Remember that you will most likely 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 items that inmates can buy if they have money in their account. These products 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

Phone calls that inmates are allowed to make from the Edmonds Police Jail are made through a jail approved pre-paid phone account or phone card . Phone calls made in jail are usually more costly than phone calls made outside of jail. There is no limit to when and how often you can use the phone, but bear in mind that a long line can form at the phones, because everyone wants to use the phone, too. If you are under any sort of disciplinary procedure, an inmate’s phone privileges might get reduced or forbidden completely.

Phone Number: 425-771-0200

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have exclusive contracts at each facility that they are the exclusive phone provider for, which means that they they control how much it costs to make phone calls. The profits these phone service providers make from all phone calls that inmates make are split 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 Edmonds Police Jail. The rates are posted and there are at least two different prices based on where the inmate is calling. The following three things 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 the other correctional facilities like state prisons, and local and county jails figuring out how to decrease your inmates phone charges can be more difficult. ArrestedResources.com is an expert in keeping up with all of the changes that affect your inmate’s calling rate and in most cases is able to offer you an inmate calling number that will save you significantly on how much it costs you to call your inmate. There are some circumstances where we won’t be able to save you any money, and therefore we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In cases like this, the facility has set their calling prices in a way that nobody will be able to save you money.

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

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