The Pre-Trial Detention Facility sits beside the Hall of Justice. Todd Road Jail, 600 South Todd Road, Santa Paula (805-933-8501), holds many sentenced and longer-term inmates. The East County Jail inside the Thousand Oaks station (805-494-8200) is a short-term holding site.

Ventura County Inmate Search covers every jail. The inmate information line, 805-654-3335, can confirm where someone is housed.

Ventura holds first hearings for people in jail within a two-court-day limit, in the courthouse next to the jail. Criminal clerk: 805-289-8545. Some East County matters go to Simi Valley. Read Ventura court steps.

Ventura's 2026 schedule sets opening amounts. Bail is posted at the Pre-Trial facility's bail window (805-654-2380) or by a licensed agent. Pretrial Services may recommend release, and the judge must think about ability to pay. See the Ventura bail guide.

800 South Victoria Avenue, Ventura (805-654-2201), with branch offices in Oxnard and Simi Valley.

Each jail runs its own visit schedule. Book a slot and bring photo ID; Todd Road is a drive inland from Ventura. See Ventura visits and video visits.

Letters must carry a booking number and go to whichever Ventura jail the roster names. Topics: sending mail, trust deposits, commissary items, jail calls, e-messages, tablets.

Detained youths stay at the Juvenile Facility, 4333 Vineyard Avenue, Oxnard (805-981-5527), which also hosts the secure youth treatment program. Probation: 805-654-2106.

The Sheriff won't call you for bail paid with gift cards. Check with the inmate line, 805-654-3335, first.

These cases are made by groups such as the ATF or the DEA. Any federal charge is filed in the Western Division of the Central District of California in the federal courthouse: 255 East Temple Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012. Clerk's phone: 213-894-1565. The first appearance comes quickly, before a magistrate judge. Plan on a brief interview with pretrial services before court. There is no set price for bail for federal charges. A release hearing settles release or detention, using the Bail Reform Act of 1984.

Start on the county roster to see if they are there. Until sentencing, the Marshals Service can place them in a private jail by contract. Then try the U.S. Marshals for the Central District of California in Los Angeles at 213-620-7676 (350 West 1st Street, Suite 3001, Los Angeles, CA 90012). A conviction with prison time shifts them from the jail here to the BOP on its own schedule. The Bureau of Prisons locator for the prison.

• ICE finds out about the arrest through booking prints deputies send. ICE may then issue a detainer.
• With a detainer, immigration officers ask local jailers to keep the person pending ICE pickup up to 48 hours after they would otherwise be released (8 CFR 287.7(d)). Ventura jail staff work within SB 54, the Values Act, keeping release on time and limiting ICE transfers to a court-signed warrant or a qualifying serious or violent felony.
• A paid bond won't lift the detainer.
• Officers from ICE may pick them up in person while held. If they don't come, the sheriff must free them.
• The detainee locator finds people with an A-number and home country. Can't find the alien number (A-number)? You can also search by the exact name, native country and date of birth.
• The final stop is up to ICE and can change.
• Families can reach ICE's Los Angeles field office: 300 North Los Angeles Street, Room 7631, Los Angeles, CA 90012, or by phone at 213-830-7911.

A state prison sentence is run by the state corrections department (CDCR). The person waits in the Ventura jail until the CDCR picks them up. After that, they're taken to a reception center for processing. Staff classify each person by gang connections, health care needs, and security risk. Their next move is a facility that fits their needs.

Open the CDCR inmate locator by full name or CDCR number. For each unit, see California state prisons.

Search the Ventura booking search. Don't count on Ventura mugshots being there.

California's rule is Penal Code 13665. It is about social media only. It applies to most nonviolent arrests. Sheriffs and police can't share them there. Posts must come down within 14 days. Fugitives and threats are the exceptions. The rule skips the sheriff's own site. Even so, many sheriffs leave photos off.

Pictures from an ICE booking aren't handed out on request; the path is ICE's online records request, which the agency reviews. When a mugshot is not online, the media may phone sheriff's staff, 805-654-9511. Families and the media can't get federal booking photos in most cases. The There are only a few exceptions. The U.S. Marshals may share a jail photo for an escapee or fugitive, to assist an arrest or to warn people or for urgent community safety.

• Oxnard Police non-emergency: 805-385-7740
• Ventura Police non-emergency: 805-650-8010
• Simi Valley Police non-emergency: 805-583-6950
• Ventura County Sheriff's Office: 805-654-9511

Thousand Oaks, Camarillo, Moorpark, Ojai and Fillmore contract with the Sheriff.

At the Pre-Trial Detention Facility on South Victoria Avenue, where the booking desk can say who's being held. Sheriff's deputies field warrant checks, statewide records included. The Superior Court runs an online case inquiry where a name brings up active cases. If you're wanted, an Oxnard or Simi Valley defense attorney can schedule surrender. The Hall of Justice clerk at 800 South Victoria (805-289-8900) can explain a new date and help you plan the visit. Keep the birthday and correct spelling of the name nearby.