Longboat Key Police Jail

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The Longboat Key Police Jail is located at 5460 Gulf Of Mexico Drive in Longboat Key, FL and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Longboat Key Town Police Department.

This site will tell you information about everything you might want to know about the Longboat Key Police Jail, like how to locate an inmate at the Longboat Key Police Jail, the jail’s phone number and address, intake procedures and booking, how to find your court records, and much more.

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Introduction

This guide is meant to give information and tips that you need to make the process easier. If you have specific questions, just ask it in the comment section below, and also any comments or tips that would be beneficial to other people in the same situation is appreciated.

Longboat Key Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Longboat Key Police Jail Inmate Roster has information about people who were arrested and are now in jail, including custody status, and schedule for visitation. Also, you are able to find information about anyone arrested and processed or released within the past 24 hours. Jail inmates are listed alphabetically by their last name. You will be able to locate their arrest information more quickly if you have your friend or family member’s full name, date of birth, or inmate ID Number.

Longboat Key Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake procedure at the Longboat Key Police Jail takes you through each of the following steps:

You will be placed in a waiting area or cell. If the jail is busy, you may not be processed immediately.

You will have to answer some questions, such as what is your 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’ll be given an inmate ID and you will be fingerprinted. Then, all personal property will be taken away from you and stored until you get released.

They will allow you to use the telephone to get in touch with a family member, friend, or loved-on.

If they expect that you will make bail and be released quickly, you will be allowed to skip the jumpsuit and keep wearing your own clothes, otherwise you will be issued a jail issued jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you finally post bail, you will be allowed to leave jail. This process can take from 10 minutes to hours or even all day long. Or, simply, the faster bail is posted, the sooner you will be freed. Also, how fast you get released depends on whether you’ve been given a bond amount or if a magistrate has to determine the amount of bail to be set. For lesser charges, you will simply be booked and then released on your recognizance without having to pay bail. When you have completed your jail sentence and know the discharge date, plan to get discharged in the morning.

Longboat Key Police Jail Visitation

To have visitors, you have to provide each visitor’s full name to the Longboat Key Police Jail before anyone can visit them. Your visitor’s names will go in a Visiting log for the inmate that requested the visitor. Each and every visitor will have to provide identification. Anyone that gets to visitation or that is not an approved visitor will not be able to attend visitation.

The Longboat Key Police Jail visitation procedures can change, so it would be wise to call the facility at 941-316-1977 before you try to visit an inmate.

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Visitation Rules

In order to visit someone at the Longboat Key Police Jail you have to be added to their visitation list.

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

No mobile phones are allowed at Longboat Key Police Jail, and you will be searched before entering. No personal belongings. Anybody under must obtain the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent before they can visit. Such visitation is not going to be approved.

If a 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 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 magazines to an inmate at the Longboat Key Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Longboat Key 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 Longboat Key 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 Longboat Key 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 court records on the website or call the jail. You have to have their first and last name. Or, you can just go down to the jail and ask them. Keep in mind 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, as well as their arrest date, contact the Manatee County jail, on the phone, go there in person, or check online. Records of arrests are in the public record and this is available to anyone.

Court Records

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

Criminal Records

Each state keeps a record of a person’s criminal background. These databases are all linked so you are able to track criminal backgrounds from other states. Go to courthouse and inquire, or you can check online. It helps to know which county the crime occurred in, and if it was in a totally different state, you might have to pay for a more comprehensive search.

A criminal history search you can get a report detailing any arrests, charges, or convictions that may be on a person’s record for crimes, which include, drug Possession of drug trafficking, kidnapping, rape or other sexual assault, violent crimes including assault, battery and murder, or breaking and entering, theft, larceny.

Money & Commissary

The procedure to send money to Longboat Key Police Jail inmates could change, so double check the Longboat Key Police Jail site before you send funds to an inmate there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Longboat Key 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 Longboat Key Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 941-316-1977 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 Longboat Key Police Jail store. Inmates can purchase different things here, such as personal items, food, and things for writing. Remember that you will probably need to buy things from the commissary on a daily basis, and any infractions will cause you to lose commissary privileges.

The Commissary will sell a selection of different products that the inmate can buy if they have enough money in their commissary account. These products include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, in addition to 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

All phone calls from the Longboat Key Police Jail are made through a jail approved pre-paid phone account or phone card . Calls made in jail are generally more costly than phone calls made outside of jail. There is no limit to when and how often you can use the phone, but inmates must keep in mind that every inmate wants to use the phone too, so they can call their family. If you are disciplined for an infraction, phone calls might get cut back or forbidden.

Phone Number: 941-316-1977

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have a monopoly 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 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 Longboat Key Police Jail. The prices are posted and there are at least two types of prices 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 can be more difficult. ArrestedResources.com keeps up to date 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 inmate phone calls. There are some circumstances where we will not be able to save you any money, and in these cases we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In cases like this, the jail has set their phone rates so high that nobody can save you money.

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

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