Roseville, Rocklin and Lincoln bookings frequently end up at the South Placer Jail, 11801 Go For Broke Road, Roseville, CA 95678 (916-409-8100). Auburn, foothill and Tahoe arrests generally go to the Auburn Jail. People move between the two for court and housing.

Placer County Inmate Search shows both jails, with the site, charges and bail. If the record hasn't appeared, call the jail nearest the arrest: Auburn Jail, 2775 Richardson Drive, Auburn, CA 95603 (530-745-8500), or South Placer Jail, 11801 Go For Broke Road, Roseville, CA 95678 (916-409-8100).

The main criminal courthouse is at 10820 Justice Center Drive in Roseville; the historic courthouse is at 101 Maple Street in Auburn (main line 916-408-6000). Tahoe-area cases go to the Tahoe courthouse (530-584-3460). Arraignment comes within two court days. Read Placer court steps.

Placer's schedule sets the starting bail, paid at the jail or bonded. A judge may change it, order pretrial supervision, or release on own recognizance, and must weigh the person's finances. See the Placer bail guide.

Placer contracts with a private attorney office in Rocklin to act as public defender (916-644-1100). The judge appoints it at arraignment.

Auburn and South Placer each set their own visit days, so check which jail first. Book ahead and bring photo ID. See Placer visiting and video visiting.

Envelopes go to the jail holding the person, with the booking number on the envelope. Placer guides: sending mail, account funds, store items, phone service, messaging, tablets.

Placer youths are held at the juvenile detention facility, 11260 B Avenue, Auburn (530-886-4875). Probation is at 530-889-7900, and the juvenile court clerk at 530-745-2100.

Placer jails don't collect bail through apps or gift cards. Call 530-745-8500 or 916-409-8100 to confirm what's going on.

It often starts after the U.S. Marshals, the ATF, the FBI and the Secret Service make the arrest. Placer County is part of the Eastern District of California, Sacramento Division; court dates happen at the federal building in Sacramento, 501 I Street, Sacramento, CA 95814. Clerk staff in Sacramento take calls at 916-930-4000. The first appearance is held fast with a magistrate judge. Bail is not a preset figure in U.S. District Court. Applying federal bail law, the judge leads a detention hearing to decide release and its conditions. Expect questions from pretrial services before court.

Search for them on the county roster. While it's open, the Marshals can hold your loved one in a county jail through a contract. Phoning the Marshals at 916-930-2030 may confirm where they are. Its address is 501 I Street, Suite 5600, Sacramento, CA 95814. Following a prison sentence, a prisoner transfers into BOP custody, often weeks later. Follow the person on the federal inmate locator.

• At booking, their prints are shared with federal agencies. ICE can then issue a detainer.
• Even after bail paid, the ICE hold remains active.
• ICE asks the jail to hold on to the inmate for federal agents up to 48 hours after they would otherwise be released (8 CFR 287.7(d)). Auburn's jail applies the Values Act through Gov. Code 7284.6, so release tracks the local case, and a transfer to ICE requires a judicial warrant or one of the serious convictions state law lists.
• ICE officers may collect them in person before time runs out. Deadline passed? Then the request runs out and the sheriff lets them go.
• Relatives can track them online through the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, which asks for the A-number plus where they were born. No ICE number? The name option takes the inmate's legal name, DOB, and country of birth.
• The last stop is ICE's call and may change.
• ICE handles detainers here out of the San Francisco office, at 630 Sansome Street, Room 590, San Francisco, CA 94111; call 415-365-8800.

Felony prison terms are served by the CDCR. At first, most people stay in the Placer County jail while the state schedules the move. When space opens, they are taken to a reception center to be processed. CDCR staff rate them based on their risk level, any gang affiliation and health care needs. The last move is a housing unit that fits those results.

The CDCR inmate locator lists where they are housed. Our state prison page explains prison addresses.

Try the Placer jail search first; the Placer record may not include mugshots.

Section 13665 is the key law. Social media is what it covers. Nonviolent arrests are the main target. Agencies may not post those photos there. Photos posted there expire after 14 days. A judge can also allow a post. Jail websites are outside this law. Even so, many sheriffs leave photos off.

Non-public booking photos come from sheriff's staff; media may call 530-889-7800. Federal booking photos are kept from the public or the press. The office that photographs prisoners, the federal Marshals Service, makes one public only for a wanted fugitive, when posting it supports an arrest or an alert to residents or for urgent public safety. ICE booking photos need a request through an ICE records request and approved by ICE.

• Roseville Police: 916-774-5000
• Rocklin Police non-emergency: 916-625-5400
• Lincoln Police non-emergency: 916-645-4040
• Auburn Police: 530-823-4237
• Placer County Sheriff's Office: 530-889-7800

The Sheriff covers Granite Bay, Loomis, Colfax and the Tahoe area.

It depends where deputies or Roseville police made the stop, and people go to one of the two county jails accordingly. Warrant questions, statewide ones included, go to the Sheriff at 530-889-7800. The case shows up on the court's case access portal. To get ahead of your own warrant, ask counsel to arrange surrender at the South Placer Jail on Go For Broke Road or the jail on Richardson Drive. The Justice Center Drive clerk can talk about a new date.