Western county arrests go to the Nevada County main jail on Maidu Avenue. Truckee arrests are booked at the Truckee jail and then usually moved to Nevada City if they stay in custody.

Nevada County Inmate Search covers both sites. Call corrections at 530-265-1291 for any detail you cannot find in the list.

The Superior Court sits at 201 Church Street in Nevada City and 10075 Levon Avenue in Truckee (530-362-4309). The 48-hour arraignment rule applies, not counting Sundays and holidays. Read Nevada County court steps.

Families can pay scheduled bail at Maidu Avenue, all at once or through a licensed agent's bond. The judge reconsiders at arraignment and must take his finances into account. See the Nevada County bail guide.

The county's Public Defender works from 109 North Pine Street, Nevada City (530-265-1400).

Visits at Maidu Avenue are booked ahead, and adults bring photo ID. Truckee holds people too briefly for regular visits. See Nevada County visits and video visiting.

Send mail to 925 Maidu Avenue, Nevada City, CA 95959, with the booking number. Nevada County topics: correspondence, account funding, commissary, phones, messages, tablets.

The county runs a regional juvenile hall in Nevada City that also takes youths from neighboring counties. Probation is at 530-265-1200, or 530-582-7804 in Truckee.

Treat it as a scam. Nevada County corrections staff never take bail through payment apps, gift cards or wires. End the call and check with the jail at 530-265-1291 before sending a cent.

Officers from the DEA, the IRS, the Secret Service or the ATF handle federal arrests, sometimes with local police. Hearings in this county are held at the federal courthouse in Sacramento, 501 I Street, Sacramento, CA 95814, for the Eastern District of California's Sacramento Division. Clerk staff in Sacramento answer at 916-930-4000. An initial appearance is held fast, before a magistrate judge. Pretrial services also interviews them and sends the judge a summary. The federal system has no bail schedule. The judge settles what conditions apply at a quick hearing under federal bail law.

Meanwhile, U.S. Marshals usually place your loved one in a private jail by contract. Start with the jail's inmate list first. This district's Marshals staff in Sacramento can tell you where they are: 916-930-2030, 501 I Street, Suite 5600, Sacramento, CA 95814. A conviction with prison time moves them out of the jail here into the BOP once a spot is set. The Bureau of Prisons locator for where they serve once they arrive.

• When someone is booked, their prints are shared with federal databases. ICE can then place a detainer.
• A paid bail won't lift an ICE hold.
• Through the I-247A, ICE requests that jailers keep the person for immigration officers up to 48 hours after they would otherwise be released (8 CFR 287.7(d)). Nevada City jail staff are guided by the Values Act (SB 54): the person goes home when the county case allows, and ICE gets notice or a transfer only on a judicial warrant or a qualifying conviction.
• ICE officers can collect them in that time. If ICE stays away, that means release.
• The agency chooses the next facility.
• To learn their location, phone ICE's San Francisco field office at 415-365-8800, located at 630 Sansome Street, Room 590, San Francisco, CA 94111.
• Look on the ICE online detainee locator by A-number and native country. Don't have the A-number? Use your loved one's full name, date of birth, and nation of birth instead.

Prison time is overseen by California's corrections department (CDCR). Until then, the person stays in the Nevada City jail until the state has room. The first CDCR stop is an intake unit for processing. Prison staff rate them based on gang affiliation, health care needs and custody score. Their next step is the prison that suits the findings.

To find them, try the CDCR online locator. Our California prison guide explains prison addresses.

Nevada mugshots are not shown in the Nevada in-custody list, only names and booking details.

Section 13665 sets the state rule. It covers social media posts. It applies to most nonviolent arrests. Those mugshots can't go on social media. Photos posted there expire after 14 days. Exceptions exist for fugitives and public threats. Jail websites are outside this law. Still, most California rosters show no photos.

Immigration officials share mugshots only through an ICE public records request that ICE approves. Unreleased booking photos are handled by sheriff's staff; journalists can call 530-265-1471. Federal booking photos are not made public. Marshals policy keeps release to three situations: for an escaped inmate or fugitive, when the public must be protected now, or when posting it aids the search or an alert to residents.

• Grass Valley Police: 530-477-4600
• Nevada City Police: 530-265-4700
• Truckee Police non-emergency: 530-550-2320
• Nevada County Sheriff's Office: 530-265-1471

The Sheriff patrols Penn Valley, Lake Wildwood and other unincorporated areas.

It shows local warrants. The Sheriff's active warrants list covers this county, and deputies at 530-265-1471 check statewide records by phone. The court's online portal shows open cases from Grass Valley to Truckee. Someone arrested on a warrant goes to the Maidu Avenue jail, and a judge in the county seat generally sees them about two court days later. To act first, ask a Grass Valley lawyer to set up a surrender; the Church Street clerk can help with a new date.