Brea Police Jail

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The Brea Police Jail is located at 1 Civic Center Circle in Brea, CA and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Brea Police Department.

This page will tell you information about anything one might want to know about the Brea Police Jail, such as how to find out who’s in jail at the Brea Police Jail, the jail’s address and phone number, booking and intake procedures, how to find your court records, and more.

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Introduction

This guide is meant to offer information and tips you need to make helping someone get out of jail easier. If you have specific questions, please feel free to ask them, and please leave any comments or tips that would be beneficial to others would be much appreciated.

Brea Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Brea Police Jail Inmate Roster has information about individuals who have been arrested and are in custody, which includes status, and visiting schedule. You can get info on anybody processed or released in the past 24 hour period. Prisoners are listed in alphabetical order by their last name. You will be able to find their arrest information faster if you have their name, birth date, or arrest number.

Brea Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake procedure at the Brea Police Jail takes you through the following steps:

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

First you will answer some basic questions, such as your full legal name, address, birth date and contact person, and also, you will also be asked about your medical and mental history. Next, you’ll be given an inmate ID and your fingerprints will be taken. 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 in order to contact a family member, friend, or loved-on.

If you are expected to be released quickly, you will be allowed to keep wearing street clothes, but if you are not expected to make bail quickly you will be issued a jail uniform – the jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

Once bail has been posted, you will get released from jail. Getting discharged takes between 10 minutes to quite a few hours. So, the faster bail is posted, the quicker you will get discharged from jail. Also, how fast you get released can depend on if you’ve been given a cash bond amount or if the magistrate has to figure out how much to set your bail at. For a minor charge, you will simply be booked and released on your own recognizance. When you have completed your jail sentence and know the discharge date, you should expect to get released that morning.

Brea Police Jail Visitation

The inmate have to provide the name and date of birth of each visitor to the Brea Police Jail in advance of any visit. Your visitor’s information will be entered in a log of approved visitors as an authorized visitor. Each visitor must provide acceptable photo identification. Visitors showing up late or that does not have a visting order will not be allowed to visit the inmate.

Visitation procedures at Brea Police Jail change often, so you should call the jail at 714-990-7625 before you try to go to visitation.

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Visitation Rules

In order to visit an inmate at the Brea Police Jail you have to be on the inmate’s approved visitation list.

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

No mobile phones are allowed at Brea Police Jail, and you will be searched before entering. No personal belongings. Anybody currently on must obtain the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer prior to a visit. This kind of 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 a visitor is younger than 18 years of age 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 Brea Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Brea 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 Brea 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 Brea 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 believe you have an outstanding warrant, you can access arrest warrants on the Orange County jail website 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 one of the officers. You should know that if there is an arrest warrant out for you, you should be prepared to get taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know the person’s first and last name, as well as their arrest date, contact the jail, by phone, go there in person, or check online. Records of arrests are a matter of public record and these records are freely available.

Court Records

Court Records are public records and available to anyone. They include a court case file containing a court docket and any of the documents filed in your case. You are able to access the court records online, or at the Orange County Clerk of Court office in the county where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Every state keeps a record of their state citizen’s criminal history. These online databases are linked together so you are able to track criminal convictions from other states. You can go to county courthouse and check in person, or check the website. You must know which county the crime occured in, and if it was in a totally different state, you might have to pay for a more comprehensive search.

A search of someone’s criminal history you can find out if a person has ever been arrested, charged or convicted for DWI or DUI, drug crimes, kidnapping, sexual offenses including rape, assault, violent crimes, or breaking and entering, theft, larceny.

Money & Commissary

The rules for sending funds to someone in jail at the Brea Police Jail is likely to change, so it would be best to review the Brea Police Jail website when send money to someone in jail there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Brea 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 Brea Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 714-990-7625 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 Brea Police Jail store. Inmates can buy different things here, like toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Bear in mind that you will most likely want to use the commissary every day, 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 account. These products include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, as well as 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

The only phone calls that Brea Police Jail inmates are allowed to make are collect calls or through a pre-paid phone account . Phone calls made in jail are usually more costly than regular phone calls. There are certain restrictions about when you can make phone calls, how long you can talk, and how often you can make calls, but bear in mind that you are just one of many people who want to talk to their loved ones. If you break the rules, phone calls might get cut back or forbidden completely.

The Brea Police Jail phone number is: 714-990-7625

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have a monopoly at every facility that they have a contract with, which means that they get to set the prices. 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 Brea Police Jail. The prices are posted and there are at least two different prices based on where the inmate is calling. These 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 the other correctional facilities like state prisons, and local and county jails figuring out how to decrease your inmates phone charges is more difficult. ArrestedResources.com keeps up to date 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 inmate phone calls. There are some circumstances where we won’t 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 or prison has set their phone call rates so high that nobody will be able to save you money.

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

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