Placer County Jail Inmate Search & Roster

Find a Placer County Inmate and Check Current Jail Custody

If you are trying to find someone arrested in Placer County, California, start with the Placer County Sheriff’s official In-Custody Report. The county links this report from its public View page and describes it as the jail in-custody roster containing bail and other booking-related information.

Placer County operates Auburn Jail in Auburn and South Placer Jail in Roseville. South Placer Minimum Security visitation is handled separately. Confirm the inmate’s current facility before visiting, posting bail, sending legal mail or arranging inmate services.

How to Search the Placer County Jail Roster

1. Open the official Placer County View page.
2. Select In-Custody Report (PDF).
3. Open the current Sheriff’s report.
4. On Windows use Ctrl + F; on Mac use Command + F. On a phone, use the PDF viewer’s Find or Search option.
5. Search the person’s legal last name and review possible matches.
6. Compare the available booking and custody information carefully instead of relying on a similar name alone.
7. Confirm the facility before visiting, mailing legal documents, posting bail or sending funds.

If the hosted PDF does not open, return to the county View page and try again or call the appropriate jail. Do not assume that an unavailable PDF means the person is not in custody.

Which Placer County Record Should You Check?

Placer County Jail Addresses and Phone Numbers

The Sheriff’s administrative headquarters is at 2929 Richardson Drive, Auburn, CA 95603. That is not a substitute for confirming which correctional facility currently houses the inmate.

Auburn Jail official page · South Placer Jail official page

If You Cannot Find the Inmate

A missing name does not always mean the arrest did not happen. Work through these possibilities:

• Booking is still being processed: a very recent arrest may take time to appear in public reports.
• The person was released: check the Daily Booking & Release Report.
• The spelling is different: retry the legal surname, hyphenated name, suffix or another known legal-name variation.
• The person was transferred: custody may have moved to another agency or jurisdiction.
• The person entered state custody: use California’s CDCR inmate locator.
• You need the court case rather than the jail record: search Placer Superior Court.
• The arrest occurred outside Placer County: search the county that actually handled the booking.

If you know the person should be in Placer County custody but cannot confirm the record online, call Auburn Jail at 530-745-8500 or South Placer Jail at 916-409-8100.

Recent Arrests vs. Current Inmates

The 10-Day Arrest Log and In-Custody Report serve different purposes. Someone can appear in an arrest log but no longer be in jail because the person was released, posted bail, received another release order or transferred.

For that reason, use the arrest log to confirm recent Sheriff arrest activity and the In-Custody Report when the real question is, “Is this person in Placer County jail right now?”

Check Charges, Court Dates and Case Status

The jail roster is not a complete court record. After identifying the correct inmate, use the Placer County Superior Court Online Portal when you need publicly searchable criminal case information.

1. Open the court’s Online Portal.
2. Choose the public case-search option.
3. No account is required simply to search public case information.
4. Enter a filing date or date range.
5. Enter either the case number or party name.
6. Open the matching criminal case and compare it with the inmate information you already have.

The court notes that its newest filings may not always be available immediately. If a search returns no result, recheck the original filing date, case-number format and party-name spelling.

Posting Bail at Auburn or South Placer Jail

Placer County lists bail processing at both Auburn Jail and South Placer Jail as available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. If a bail bond will be submitted after 7:00 p.m., the Sheriff’s Office instructs people to call the jail before arriving.

A bail agent may request the bail amount, charges, court case number, court date/department and jail identification number.

Verify current Placer County bail instructions before arranging payment.

Visiting an Inmate

Auburn Jail

Auburn Jail provides in-person visitation. The inmate’s visitation day and time can be checked using the current In-Custody Report. Visitors should check in at the Auburn Visitation Center approximately 35 to 45 minutes before the scheduled session.

South Placer Jail

South Placer Jail uses scheduled video visitation for applicable housing areas. Both on-site and remote visits generally require registration and scheduling at least 24 hours in advance.

• On-site video visitation is currently free.
• Remote video visitation is currently listed at $9.99 for 30 minutes.
• South Placer visitors should check in about 30 minutes before their scheduled on-site session.
• South Placer Minimum Security uses separate in-person visitation arrangements.

Important visitor rules

• Visitors under 18 must be accompanied by a responsible adult.
• Bring acceptable photo identification.
• Certain photo IDs may be accepted when expired by no more than two years if the photograph still matches the visitor.
• Anyone held in Placer County custody during the previous 120 days is generally restricted from in-person visitation; the Sheriff states this restriction does not apply to video visits.
• Cell phones, computers, tablets and smartphones are not allowed in visiting areas.
• Visitors must complete required security screening.
• Visitor groups are generally limited to two adults and one minor or one adult and two minors.

Review the current jail visitation instructions and visitor dress code before leaving home.

How to Send Personal Mail

Use this format for personal letters and photos:

The inmate’s full name and booking number should be clearly written on the correspondence. Personal mail is digitized so the inmate can access it electronically through facility kiosks or tablets.

Legal mail and court documents

All incoming personal mail must include a legible sender name and return address. Do not send cash, personal checks, bank cards, credit cards, phone cards, Polaroid photographs or other prohibited items.

Books must follow the Sheriff’s current publication rules. The county currently states that accepted books must be new, soft-cover and sent directly from an approved online vendor.

Check current inmate mail and facility rules before sending anything.

Send Money for Commissary

The Sheriff’s current inmate-information page lists these options for commissary funds:

• Money order or cashier’s check up to $175 each, payable to the inmate and including the jail ID number.
• Online deposits or commissary orders through the vendor linked by the Sheriff’s Office.
• Phone deposits through Smart Deposit/Access Corrections at 866-394-0490.
• Jail-lobby Smart Deposit kiosks accepting cash, credit cards and permanent bank ATM/debit cards.

Personal checks are not accepted. The Sheriff’s Office states that deposits intended for that week’s commissary delivery must be made by midnight Monday.

Third-party service fees can change. Review the transaction amount shown by the payment provider before submitting a deposit.

Inmate Phone Calls

Placer County inmates cannot receive ordinary incoming calls. Inmates can make outgoing calls, and family or friends can use ICSolutions for prepaid/inmate-debit accounts and voicemail services.

• ICSolutions: 888-506-8407
• Jail staff do not take routine personal messages for inmates.
• Emergency messages may be accepted at the discretion of the jail sergeant.

Property Release After Booking

Within the first 72 hours after booking, except during lockdown periods, an inmate can authorize one of these releases:

• motor-vehicle keys only;
• all property except clothing; or
• money.

After the initial 72 hours, the Sheriff’s rules generally allow one complete property release excluding clothing and money. Current property-release times for Auburn Jail and South Placer Jail are Friday through Monday, 7:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.

The person collecting property goes to the facility where the inmate is housed and requests a property-release form. Jail staff then obtain the inmate’s approval before releasing eligible property.

Get Release or Transfer Notifications

Placer County participates in VINE (Victim Information and Notification Everyday), a free custody-information and notification service. Registered users can receive notifications for changes such as release, transfer, escape, work release or other listed custody changes.

• Custody information: 877-331-8463
• VINE registration/help: 877-411-5588

Open Placer County VINE information.

Use VINE when you want an alert about a custody change. Use the Sheriff’s In-Custody Report when you simply need to check current Placer County jail custody.

If the Person Was Sent to California State Prison

A person transferred from Placer County jail into California state correctional custody may disappear from the county’s active roster. Use the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation CIRIS search in that situation.

County jail and state prison searches are not interchangeable. Start with Placer County for a recent local arrest; use CDCR after the person has entered state correctional custody.

Older Arrest, Booking or Sheriff Records

The current inmate roster is designed for present custody. If you need an older report or Sheriff record after the person has left custody, use the Sheriff’s Public & Records Unit or public-records process.

• Public & Records Unit: 530-889-7812
• Address: 2929 Richardson Drive, Auburn, CA 95603
• Hours: Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., excluding county holidays.

Sheriff Records Unit · Placer County public-records information

For a more useful records request, provide the person’s full legal name, approximate arrest date, incident or booking number if known, arresting agency and the specific record you need.

Before You Visit, Pay or Send Anything

Related Jail Inmate Search Guides

• Orange County Jail Inmate Search & Roster — another California county custody guide.
• Arizona Jail Inmate Search — useful when you need to search neighboring-state jail systems.
• CCDC Jail Inmate Search & Roster — Clark County jail lookup guidance for Nevada custody searches.

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