Leon Valley Police Jail

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The Leon Valley Police Jail is located at 6400 El Verde Road in Leon Valley, TX and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Leon Valley Police Department.

This site will tell you information about everything a person needs to know about the Leon Valley Police Jail, such as how to find an inmate at the Leon Valley Police Jail, the jail’s phone number and address, booking and intake procedures, how to find Bexar County court records, and more.

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Introduction

This guide is meant to give you information and tips you need to make the process less stressfull. If you have a specific question, feel free to ask it, and any tips or comments that would help other people in the same situation would be much appreciated.

Leon Valley Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Leon Valley Police Jail Inmate Search is an online list of people who have been arrested and are in jail, including current status, and times the inmate can have visitors. Also, you can find the same information for anyone arrested and booked or discharged within the past 24 hours. Jail inmates are listed in alphabetical order by their last name. You’ll be able to find their arrest information fast if you have the arrestee’s full name, date of birth, or inmate ID.

Leon Valley Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The jail intake procedure at the Leon Valley Police Jail takes you through each of these steps:

You will get put in a holding cell. If there are a lot of arrests, you will have to wait a while to get processed.

First, you will answer some basic questions, like your legal name, street address, birth date and contact person, and they’ll also ask about your mental and medical history. Next, you’ll be given an inmate ID and you will be fingerprinted. Then, Any property you have will be taken from you and stored until you get released from jail.

You will be allowed to make a telephone call in order to talk to family, friends, or loved one.

If you think you will get released quickly, they will let you keep wearing street clothes, but if you are not expected to make bail quickly you you will have to wear a jail uniform – the jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you finally post bail, you will be discharged from jail. This process may take anywhere from 15 minutes to many hours. In other words the faster you can post bail, the sooner you will get let go. How quickly you get discharged can depend on whether you’ve been given a cash bond or if the judge still needs to decide on the bail amount. For lesser charges, you will simply be booked and get released without having to post bail. When you have served your sentence and have a discharge date, you should plan to get discharged between 9am and noon.

Leon Valley Police Jail Visitation

To have visitors, you must give each visitor’s name and date of birth to the Leon Valley Police Jail before anyone can visit them. Your visitors will be put in a Visiting log for the inmate. Each and every visitor has to provide acceptable photo identification. Visitors that arrives for visitation late or that is not on the visitation list will not be allowed to visit the inmate.

Visitation procedures at Leon Valley Police Jail can change, so make sure that you call the facility at 210-684-3215 before you go.

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Visitation Rules

In order to visit someone at the Leon Valley Police Jail you must be added to their 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 Leon Valley Police Jail, and you will be searched. No personal belongings. Anybody parole, probation, or other corrections supervision must obtain the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent prior to a visit. Usually is not going to be approved.

If the visitor is under the age of 18 and is a family member of 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, 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 even magazines to an inmate at the Leon Valley Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Leon Valley 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 Leon Valley 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 Leon Valley 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 arrest warrants inquiry online or call the jail. You have to have their first and last name. You can also go to the local jail and ask them. Bear in mind 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, either by phone, go there in person, or look online. Records of arrests are in the public record and the information is accessible by the public.

Court Records

Court Records are public, and are accessible by anyone. Court Records include a case file that contains a docket sheet and all documents and filings filed in your court case. You can access court records via the internet, or at the Bexar County Clerk of Court in the jurisdiction where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each state maintains records of someone’s criminal background. These databases are all connected so you can track criminal histories from any other state. You can go to the Bexar County Courthouse and make an inquiry, 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 intensive search.

When you look up someone’s criminal record you can get a listing of all the arrests, charges, or convictions for these crimes, drug offenses, kidnapping, sex offenses which could include rape, and sexual assault, violent crimes, or breaking and entering, theft, larceny.

Money & Commissary

The procedure to send funds to someone in jail are always changing, so it would be best to double check the Leon Valley Police Jail site when you send money to an inmate.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Leon Valley 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 Leon Valley Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 210-684-3215 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 Leon Valley Police Jail store. You can buy several different things here, like toiletries, snacks and writing supplies. Bear in mind that you will most likely want to use the commissary on a daily basis, and any infractions will get that privilege taken away from you.

The Commissary will sell a selection of different products that inmates can purchase if they have money in their commissary account. These products include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, as well as hygiene products such as 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 Leon Valley Police Jail are made through a jail approved pre-paid phone account or phone card . Jail phone calls are a lot pricier than phone calls made outside of jail. Phone calls are restricted 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 are disciplined for an infraction, phone calls might get reduced or forbidden completely.

Phone Number: 210-684-3215

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 how much it costs to make phone calls. The profits from all of the phone calls that inmates make 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 Leon Valley Police Jail. The rates are posted and there are at least two types of prices based on where the inmate is calling. The following 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 the other correctional facilities like state prisons, and local and county jails figuring out how to lower your inmates phone charges can be 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 facility has set their 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 Leon Valley Police Jail, click the link below.

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