Fort Walton Beach Police Jail

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The Fort Walton Beach Police Jail is located at 7 Hollywood Boulevard Northeast in Fort Walton Beach, FL and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Fort Walton Beach Police Department.

This guide tells you information about anything one might want to know about the Fort Walton Beach Police Jail, such as how to find an inmate at the Fort Walton Beach Police Jail, the jail’s phone number and address, booking and intake procedures, how to find your court records, and much more.

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Introduction

This guide is meant to offer info you need to make getting locked up easier. If you have a question, feel free to ask it, and also any feedback or comments that could help other people in the same situation will be appreciated.

Fort Walton Beach Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Fort Walton Beach Police Jail Inmate Lookup is an online list of people who have been arrested and are in jail, which includes current status, and visiting hours. Also, you can find information for anybody who has been arrested or released in the last 24 hours. Jail inmates are shown in alphabetical order by their last name. You will be able to locate their arrest information quicker if you’ve got the arrestee’s first and last name, birth date, or inmate ID.

Fort Walton Beach Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake procedure at the Fort Walton Beach Police Jail takes you through these steps:

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

First, you must answer a number of questions, such as what is your legal name, street address, date of birth and an emergency contact person, and you will also be asked about your psychological and medical history. Next, you will be issued an inmate number and you will get fingerprinted. Then, all personal property will be taken from you and stored until you get released.

You will then be allowed to make a telephone call to get in touch with a member of your family, friend, or loved one.

If they expect that you will make bail and be released quickly, you might be allowed to keep wearing your own clothes, but if you are not expected to make bail quickly you will be issued a jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

Once you are able to post bail, you will get discharged from jail. The discharge process will take between 10 minutes to hours or even all day long. In other words the quicker you post bail, the faster you will get discharged from jail. Also, how fast you get released can depend on whether you’ve been given a cash bond amount or if the judge has to figure out how much to set your bail at. For a minor offense, you will simply be booked and then released on your recognizance without having to pay bail. If you have served a sentence in jail and have a release date, you should expect to be discharged in the morning.

Fort Walton Beach Police Jail Visitation

The inmate need to give each visitor’s full name to the Fort Walton Beach Police Jail in advance of the visit. Your visitors will be entered in the visitation log as an Authorized visit. Every visitor must provide acceptable photo identification. Anyone showing up late or that is not an approved visitor will not be able to attend visitation.

Visitation procedures are always changing, so call the facility at 850-833-9533 before you go to the jail to visit.

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Visitation Rules

In order to visit an inmate at the Fort Walton Beach Police Jail you have to first be on the inmate’s visitation list.

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

No phones are allowed at Fort Walton Beach Police Jail, and you will be searched before visiting. No personal belongings. Anybody on must obtain the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer before visiting. This kind of visitation is not approved.

If the 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 a visitor is under the age of 18 and is not related to the inmate, this 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 magazines to an inmate at the Fort Walton Beach Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Fort Walton Beach 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 Fort Walton Beach 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 Fort Walton Beach 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, you can check the court records online or you can call the court. You have to have their first and last name. Or, you can just go down to the jail and ask the officer in charge. You should be clear 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 jail, either by phone, go there in person, or check online. An arrest is in the public record and this is accessible by the public.

Court Records

Court Records are public records. These records include a case file that contains a docket sheet and any of the documents filed in the court case. You can access your court records via the internet service ‘Public Access to Court Electronic Records’, or at Clerk of Court office where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each state maintains a record of people’s criminal past. These state databases are connected so you can track criminal backgrounds from other states. Go to courthouse and inquire, or check online. It helps to know which county the crime occurred in, and if the crime was in a different state entirely, you may have to pay for a more comprehensive search.

When you look up a person’s crminal records you will be able to find out if someone has been arrested, charged, or convicted for DWI or DUI, drug crimes, kidnapping, rape or other sexual assault, violent crimes like assault or murder, or breaking and entering, theft, larceny.

Money & Commissary

The rules for sending funds to someone in jail can change at any time, so we suggest that you check the Fort Walton Beach Police Jail site before you send any funds.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Fort Walton Beach 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 Fort Walton Beach Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 850-833-9533 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 Fort Walton Beach Police Jail store. An inmate can buy different things here, such as personal items, food, and things for writing. Keep in mind that you will most likely need to use the commissary daily, and any infractions will get that privilege taken away from you.

The Commissary will sell a selection 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 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 Fort Walton Beach Police Jail are made through a jail approved pre-paid phone account or phone card . These phone calls are typically pricier than phone calls made outside of jail. There is no limit to when you can make phone calls, how long you can talk, and how often you can make calls, but you should keep in mind that you are just one of many people who want to talk to their loved ones. If you break the rules and are disciplined, an inmate’s phone privileges might get reduced or cut altogether.

Phone Number: 850-833-9533

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 get to set the prices. The profits these phone service providers make 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 Fort Walton Beach Police Jail. The prices are posted and there are at least two pricing tiers based on where the inmate is calling. These 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 learning how to decrease your inmates phone charges is 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 a lot of money on how much it costs you to call your inmate. In some cases, we won’t be able to save you money on your inmate calls, and therefore we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In cases like this, the facility has set their inmate 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 Fort Walton Beach Police Jail, click the link below.

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