Batavia Police Jail

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The Batavia Police Jail is located at 389 East Main Street in Batavia, OH and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Batavia Police Department.

This site tells you information about everything you might need to know about the Batavia Police Jail, such as how to find out who’s in jail at the Batavia Police Jail, the jail’s address and phone number, intake procedures, court information, and much, much more.

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Introduction

This guide is meant to offer information and tips you need to make going to jail a little less stressful. If you have specific questions, please feel free to ask it, and please leave any comments or feedback that would be beneficial to other people in the same situation is much appreciated.

Batavia Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Batavia Police Jail Inmate Locator is an online list of individuals currently in custody, including custody status, and times you can visit. You can find info for anybody who has been arrested or discharged within the last 24 hours. Inmates are shown in alphabetical order by their last name. You can get the information faster if you enter your friend or family member’s name, date of birth, or arrest number.

Batavia Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

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

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

You will have to answer some questions, like your legal name, home address, date of birth and a contact person, and you will also be asked about your mental and medical history. Next, You will be given an inmate number and your fingerprints will be taken. Then, all of your personal property will be taken from you and stored until you get released.

They will allow you to use the telephone so you can get in touch with a member of your family, friend, or loved one.

If you are expected to be released quickly, they will let you skip the jumpsuit and keep wearing your own clothes, but if you are not expected to make bail quickly you you will be given a jail uniform.

Discharge Procedures

Once bail has been posted, you will be allowed to leave jail. Getting discharged takes between 10 minutes to many hours. Or, simply, the quicker you post bail, the faster you will get discharged from jail. Also, how fast you get released depends on whether or not you have a bond amount or if a magistrate must figure out the amount of bail to be set. For minor offenses, you will be booked and released on your own recognizance. When you have served out your jail sentence and are given a release date, you should expect to get released that morning.

Batavia Police Jail Visitation

In order to have visitors, inmates have to give each visitor’s name and date of birth to the Batavia Police Jail in advance. Your visitors will be put into a Visiting log as an Authorized visit. Each visitor is required to provide a photo ID when visiting. Any visitors showing up late or that does not have a visting order will not be allowed to attend visitation.

Visitation procedures are always changing, so you should call the jail at 513-732-5692 before you go.

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Visitation Rules

To visit someone at the Batavia Police Jail you have to first have your name on their approved visitation list.

Be sure to take your valid driver’s license or government issued ID with you to visitation or you will not be allowed to enter without it.

No cellphones at Batavia Police Jail, and you will be searched before visiting. Personal belongings are not allowed. Anybody currently on must obtain the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent before they can visit. Usually is not normally approved.

If the visitor is younger than 18 years of age and is a family member of 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 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 Batavia Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Batavia 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 Batavia 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 Batavia 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 an outstanding warrant for your arrest, you can check arrest warrants inquiry on the Clermont County jail website or you are able to call the jail. This requires a first and last name. Or, you can just go the jail in person and inquire at the information desk. Keep in mind that if there is a warrant for your arrest, you will be taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you have a first and last name, as well as the date of their arrest, contact the Clermont County jail, either by phone, in person, or check online. An arrest is a matter of public record and these records are available to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are public records and available to anyone. These records include a court case file containing a court docket and all of the documents and filings filed in the case. You can access your court records online, or at Clerk of Court where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Every state maintains a record of someone’s criminal history. These databases are linked together so you can track criminal convictions from another state. You are able to go to courthouse and check in person, or check online. It helps to know the county, and in the event that it was in a different state entirely, you might have to pay a fee for a more intensive search.

A criminal history search you will find out if someone has been arrested, charged, or convicted for DWI or DUI, drug offenses such as possession or trafficking, kidnapping, sex offenses which could include rape, and sexual assault, violent crimes including assault, battery and murder, or breaking and entering, theft, larceny.

Money & Commissary

The process for sending money to Batavia Police Jail jail inmates are always changing, so we suggest that you review the Batavia Police Jail website when you send funds to an inmate there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Batavia 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 Batavia Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 513-732-5692 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 Batavia Police Jail store. Inmates can buy different things here, such as personal items, food, and things for writing. Bear in mind that you will probably need to use the commissary daily, and any infractions will cause you to lose commissary privileges.

The Commissary will sell a selection of different products that the inmate can purchase if they have sufficient funds in their commissary account. These products include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, in addition to personal hygiene products including 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 Batavia Police Jail are collect calls or through a pre-paid phone account . These phone calls are a lot pricier than phone calls made outside of jail. There is no limit to how often you can use the phone, but you should keep in mind that a long line can form at the phones, because everyone wants to use the phone, too. If you are disciplined for an infraction, your ability to use the phone might get cut back or eliminated altogether.

Phone Number: 513-732-5692

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have exclusive contracts at every facility that they operate, which means that they they control the prices. The profits these phone service providers make from all of the 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 Batavia 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 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 finding 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 rate and in most cases is able to offer you an inmate calling number that will save you a lot of money on calling your inmate. In some cases, 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 cases like this, 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 Batavia Police Jail, click the link below.

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