Lake Lafayette Police Jail

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The Lake Lafayette Police Jail is located at 1001 Lafayette Drive in Lake Lafayette, MO and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Lake Lafayette Police Department.

This guide will tell you information about everything one might want to know about the Lake Lafayette Police Jail, such as how to find an inmate at the Lake Lafayette Police Jail, the jail’s phone number and address, booking and intake procedures, how to find your court records, and everything else.

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Introduction

This guide is meant to give you information you need to make going to jail a little less stressful. If you have a specific question, just ask them, and any comments or feedback that could be a benefit to other people in the same situation will be welcome.

Lake Lafayette Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Lake Lafayette Police Jail Inmate List is an online list of individuals currently in custody, including status, and visiting schedule. Also, you are able to find the same information for anybody who has been arrested or released in the last 24 hours. Jail inmates are listed in alphabetical order by their last name. You’ll be able to locate their inmate information faster if you’ve got their first and last name, birth date, or inmate ID.

Lake Lafayette Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake process at the Lake Lafayette Police Jail takes you through each of the following steps:

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

The first step is that you will have to answer a number of questions, like what is your legal name, your address, birth date and an emergency contact, and they’ll also ask about your mental and medical history. Next, You will be given an inmate number and you will get fingerprinted. Then, any personal property you have will get taken away from you and stored until you get released from jail.

They will allow you to make a phone call to contact a family member, friend, or loved-on.

If you are expected to be released quickly, you will be allowed to keep wearing your own clothes, if not you will be issued a jail uniform.

Discharge Procedures

Once bail has been posted, you will get released from jail. The discharge process can take anywhere between 15 minutes to quite a few hours. In simple terms, the faster you post bail, the faster you will get out of jail. It also depends on if you’ve been given a cash bond amount or if a magistrate needs to decide on the bail amount. For lesser charges, you will be booked and released on your own recognizance. When you get to the end of your sentence and have a discharge date, plan to get released that morning.

Lake Lafayette Police Jail Visitation

To have visitors, you have to provide each visitor’s name and date of birth to the Lake Lafayette Police Jail before anyone can visit them. Your visitors will go into a log of visitors as an authorized visitor. Each visitor has to provide identification. Anyone that arrives for visitation late or that is not on the visitation list will not be allowed to attend visitation.

Visitation procedures are always changing, so call the facility at 816-633-8783 before you go to the jail to visit.

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Visitation Rules

In order to visit an inmate at the Lake Lafayette Police Jail you have to first be on this person’s approved visitation list.

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

No mobile phones at Lake Lafayette Police Jail, and you will be searched before visiting. Personal belongings are not allowed. Persons under must obtain the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent prior to a visit. This kind of visitation is not normally approved.

If the visitor is under the age of 18 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 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 about sending letters, photos, postcards, greeting cards and even magazines to an inmate at the Lake Lafayette Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Lake Lafayette 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 Lake Lafayette 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 Lake Lafayette 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 have an outstanding warrant, you can find out by checking the arrest warrants inquiry on the Lafayette County court website or you are able to call the jail directly. You have to have their first and last name. Or, you can just go down to the jail and inquire at the information desk. You should know that if you do have an outstanding warrant, you should be prepared to get taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you have a first and last name, and the date of their arrest, contact the jail, on the phone, in person, or look online. Arrest records are in the public record and these records are freely available.

Court Records

Court Records are considered public records, so they are accessible to anyone who requests them. Court Records include a court case file containing a docket sheet and any filings and documents filed in the case. You can access your court records on the internet, or at Clerk of Court in the county where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each state keeps a record of someone’s criminal history. These databases are all linked so you can track criminal histories from other states. Go to courthouse and make an inquiry, or check online. It is helpful to know the county the crime was committed in, and in the event that the crime was in a different state entirely, you might have to pay for a more complete search.

When you look up a person’s crminal records you are able to get a report detailing any arrests, charges, or convictions that may be on a person’s record for driving under the influence (DUI), drug Possession of drug trafficking, kidnapping, sex offenses which could include rape, and sexual assault, violent crimes like assault or murder, or theft, breaking and entering.

Money & Commissary

The procedure to send money to Lake Lafayette Police Jail inmates could change, so we suggest that you check the Lake Lafayette Police Jail site before you send money to an inmate there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Lake Lafayette 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 Lake Lafayette Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 816-633-8783 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 Lake Lafayette Police Jail store. An inmate can buy a number of things here, such as personal items, food, and things for writing. Keep in mind that you will most likely want to use the commissary every day, 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 enough money in their account. These products include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, in addition to 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 Lake Lafayette Police Jail are with a pre-paid phone card or account, or are collect calls . Jail phone calls are much more costly than regular phone calls. 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 bear in mind lots of people want to use the phone – so you have to share. If you break the rules, an inmate’s phone privileges might get cut back or cut altogether.

The Lake Lafayette Police Jail phone number is: 816-633-8783

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 how much it costs to make phone calls. The profits these phone service providers make off of all of the inmate phone calls 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 Lake Lafayette Police Jail. The prices are posted and there are at least two types of prices based on where the inmate is calling. These three things 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 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 inmate phone calls. In some cases, 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 facility has set their phone call rates so high that nobody can save you money.

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

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