Oneonta Police Jail

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The Oneonta Police Jail is located at 612 Lakeshore Drive in Oneonta, AL and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Highland Lake Police Department.

This site will tell you information about anything related to the Oneonta Police Jail, such as how to locate an inmate, the jail’s phone number and address, intake procedures, court information, and much more.

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Introduction

This guide is meant to give information and tips that you’ll need to make helping a friend or family member get out of jail less stressfull. If you have a specific question, feel free to ask them, and also any feedback or comments that might be beneficial to others is much appreciated.

Oneonta Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Oneonta Police Jail Inmate Search is an online list of people currently in custody, which includes status, and schedule for visitation. You can get info for anybody arrested and processed or released in the last 24 hours. Inmates are listed alphabetically by their last name. You will be able to get the information faster if you have their full name, birth date, or inmate ID Number.

Oneonta Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake process at the Oneonta 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 may not be processed immediately.

The first thing you will have to to is you have to answer some questions, like your full legal name, home address, date of birth and a contact person, and they’ll also ask you about your psychological and medical history. Next, You will be given an inmate number and you will be fingerprinted. Then, all of your personal property will be taken away from you and will be stored until you are released.

They will let you use the phone so you can contact a family member, friend, or loved-on.

If you are expected to be released shortly, you might be able to wear your own clothes, otherwise you you will have to wear a jail jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you pay your bail, you will be discharged from jail. This process can take anywhere from 10 minutes to all day long. Or, simply, the faster you can pay your bail, the faster you can get out of jail. It also might depend on whether you’ve been given a cash bond or if a judge needs to determine how much your bail will be. For a minor offense, you will get booked and then released on your recognizance without having to pay bail. When you have served out your jail sentence and are given a date of your release, expect to be discharged in the morning.

Oneonta Police Jail Visitation

Inmates have to give each visitor’s name to the Oneonta Police Jail in advance of any visit. This information will be put into a log of approved visitors as an Authorized visit. Each and every visitor will be required to provide acceptable photo identification. Anyone showing up late or that is not on the visitation list will not be allowed to visit the inmate.

Visitation procedures at Oneonta Police Jail are always changing, so you should call the jail at 205-625-4912 before go to the jail to visit an inmate.

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Visitation Rules

Before you can visit someone at the Oneonta Police Jail you must first be on this person’s approved visitation list.

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

No mobile phones are allowed at Oneonta Police Jail, and you will be searched before visiting. Personal belongings are not allowed. Anyone under must obtain the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer before visiting. Such visitation is not approved.

If a 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 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 in order to send letters, photos, postcards, greeting cards and magazines to an inmate at the Oneonta Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Oneonta 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 Oneonta 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 Oneonta 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 the arrest warrants online or you can call the court. You have to have the person’s first and last name. Or, you can just go down to the jail and ask them. You should be clear that there is an outstanding warrant for your arrest, you will be taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know a person’s name, and the date of their arrest, contact the Blount County jail, either by phone, go there in person, or you can check online. An arrest is a matter of public record and these records are freely available.

Court Records

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

Criminal Records

Each state maintains a record of people’s criminal background. These online databases are all connected and you can track criminal histories from any other state. You can go to county courthouse and make an inquiry, or you can 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 comprehensive search.

A search of someone’s criminal history you are able to find out if a person has ever been arrested, charged or convicted for crimes, which include, drug Possession of drug trafficking, kidnapping, sexual offenses including rape, assault, violent crimes including assault, battery and murder, or breaking and entering, theft, larceny.

Money & Commissary

The procedure to send funds to someone in jail change frequently, so we suggest that you visit the Oneonta Police Jail website before you send funds to an inmate there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Oneonta 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 Oneonta Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 205-625-4912 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 Oneonta Police Jail store. You can buy different things here, like toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Bear in mind 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 an assortment of different items that the inmate can buy if they have sufficient funds 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

All phone calls from the Oneonta Police Jail are collect calls or through a pre-paid phone account . Calls made in jail are generally more expensive than phone calls made at home. There are certain restrictions about when you can make phone calls, how long you can talk, and how often you can make calls, but inmates must keep in mind lots of people want to use the phone – so you have to share. If you are disciplined for an infraction, your ability to use the phone could be reduced or eliminated altogether.

The Oneonta Police Jail phone number is: 205-625-4912

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have a monopoly at each facility that they have a contract with, which means that they they control the prices. The profits 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 Oneonta Police Jail. The rates are posted and there are at least two types of prices based on where the inmate is calling. These three factors 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 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 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 in these cases we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In cases like this, the jail or prison has set their phone rates so high that nobody will be able to save you money.

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

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