Ocean Shores Police Jail

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The Ocean Shores Police Jail is located at 577 Point Brown Avenue Northwest in Ocean Shores, WA and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Ocean Shores Police Department.

This guide will tell you info about anything related to the Ocean Shores Police Jail, such as how to locate an inmate, the jail’s phone number and address, intake procedures and booking, court information, and everything else.

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Introduction

This guide is designed to offer information and tips that you need to make going to jail a lot easier. If you have a specific question, please feel free to ask it, and any feedback or comments that might be beneficial to other people in the same situation will be appreciated.

Ocean Shores Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Ocean Shores Police Jail Inmate Lookup is a list of individuals who have been arrested and are in jail, which includes status, and times the inmate can have visitors. Also, you can get the same information on anyone who has been arrested or released in the last 24 hours. Inmates are shown in alphabetical order by last name. You will be able to find their inmate information more quickly if you enter your friend or family member’s first and last name, birth date, or inmate ID.

Ocean Shores Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake process at the Ocean Shores Police Jail is made up of each of these steps:

You will be placed in a waiting area or cell. If the jail is really busy, you will have to wait a while to get processed.

First, you will have to answer a number of questions, such as what is your legal name, your address, birth date and contact person, and they’ll also ask about your mental and medical history. Next, You will be given an inmate ID 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 let you make a phone call to get in touch with a family member, friend, or loved-on.

If you are expected to be released quickly, you might be allowed to skip the jumpsuit and keep wearing your own clothes, otherwise you you will have to wear a jail jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

Once bail has been posted, you will get released from jail. Getting discharged from jail takes anywhere between 15 minutes to all day. In other words the quicker bail is posted, the faster you can get out of jail. How quickly you get discharged will depend on whether or not you have a bond amount or if the judge must determine how much your bail will be. For lesser charges, you will be booked and get released without having to post bail. When you have completed your jail sentence and have a date of your release, you should expect to get discharged at any time that day – but usually in the morning.

Ocean Shores Police Jail Visitation

In order to have visitors, inmates must provide information about each visitor to the Ocean Shores Police Jail in advance of any visit. Your visitor’s information will be put in the log as an approved visitor. Each visitor has to provide a photo ID when visiting. Any visitors arriving late or that is not on the visitation list will not be allowed to visit the inmate.

Visitation procedures frequently change, so we suggest that you call the jail at 360-289-3331 before go to the jail to visit an inmate.

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Visitation Rules

Before you can visit an inmate at the Ocean Shores Police Jail you must first be on this person’s visitation list.

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

No phones are allowed at Ocean Shores Police Jail, and you will be searched before visiting. No personal belongings. Persons under must get the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent before they can visit. Such visitation is not approved.

If a visitor is under the age of 18 is related to the inmate, they will have to 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 related to 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 Ocean Shores Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Ocean Shores 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 Ocean Shores 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 Ocean Shores 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 a warrant out for your arrest, you can check arrest warrants inquiry online or you can call the jail directly. This requires a first and last name. Or, you can just go the jail in person and ask the officer in charge. Keep in mind that if you do have an outstanding warrant, they will take you into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know the person’s first and last name, as well as the date of their arrest, contact the Grays Harbor County jail, on the phone, go there in person, or find out online. Arrest records are in the public record and this is available to anyone.

Court Records

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

Criminal Records

Every state maintains a record of a person’s criminal background. These databases are all connected and you can track criminal backgrounds from any other state. You can go to the Grays Harbor County Courthouse and inquire, or check online. It helps to know which county the crime occurred in, and if the crime was in a completely different state, you might have to pay a fee for a more intensive search.

When you look up a person’s crminal records you will find out if someone has been arrested, charged, or convicted for driving under the influence (DUI), drug crimes, kidnapping, sex offenses which could include rape, and sexual assault, violent crimes, or theft, breaking and entering.

Money & Commissary

The rules for sending money to Ocean Shores Police Jail inmates might change, so visit the Ocean Shores Police Jail site before you send funds to an inmate.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Ocean Shores 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 Ocean Shores Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 360-289-3331 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 Ocean Shores Police Jail store. Inmates can buy several different things here, like toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Remember that you will probably need to buy things from the commissary daily, and any infractions will get that privilege taken away from you.

The Commissary will sell a selection of different products that inmates can buy if they have enough money in their commissary account. These items include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, as well as 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 Ocean Shores Police Jail are made through a jail approved pre-paid phone account or phone card . Calls made in jail are typically more expensive than phone calls made outside of jail. There is no limit to how often you can use the phone, but bear in mind lots of people want to use the phone – so you have to share. If you break the jail rules, your ability to use the phone may be limited or eliminated completely, as part of the punishment.

The Ocean Shores Police Jail phone number is: 360-289-3331

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have exclusive contracts at every facility that they operate the phone services for, which means that they they control how much it costs to make phone calls. The money these phone service providers make off of all of the 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 Ocean Shores Police Jail. The rates are posted and there are at least two different 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 lower your inmates phone charges is 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 how much it costs you to call your inmate. There are some prisons or jails where we won’t be able to save you any money, and therefore we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In these cases, the jail or prison 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 Ocean Shores Police Jail, click the link below.

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