Bay Regional Juvenile Detention Center Inmate Bail & Bonds

Run the name through Bay County Inmate Search. If the booking has posted, the page lists the charge and the bail. Fresh arrests can lag. The jail answers at 850-785-5245 for questions the search leaves open, so have a birth date ready.

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It is at 5700 Star Lane, Panama City, FL 32404, and the Bay County Sheriff's Office runs it. The Sheriff's Office is a separate site from the jail, so do not drive to the wrong address with money in hand. The sheriff's main office is at 3421 N. Highway 77.

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The Bay sheriff's office says preset bonds and child support purges take only cash or a money order payable to the Bay County Sheriff's Office. Other bonds can be paid in cash at the Warrants Division in the jail, or through a bail agent. Credit cards are taken only in person at the Warrants Office, and the card holder needs a photo ID with the same name. Bring the exact cash amount, because staff cannot make change. Bond can be posted at any point during booking. Call 850-785-5245 if you need to confirm anything before you go.

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The sheriff's pages do not give Warrants Division hours. Phone 850-785-5245 and ask whether the jail takes bond payments after midnight and on holidays. Bail agents' numbers are posted in the Warrants Division lobby, and jail staff will not recommend one. After the bond is posted, the person leaves through the jail's releasing section. Go to the front lobby, name who you are picking up, and wait there until staff call you to the releasing door.

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Kiosks and online sites at jails usually fund inmate accounts for phones and snacks. In Bay, that money is not bail and frees no one. Ask the jail desk before you put a card into any machine.

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Under the Florida Supreme Court's 2026 statewide schedule (AOSC25-69), a third-degree felony with no force is set at $2,500, and one with force at $5,000. Bay lists $500 for a first-degree misdemeanor without force, and $150 for a second-degree one. A first DUI is $500.

Bay's amounts cover release before any hearing. The judge may choose a different number, and the circuit chief judge may add conditions or raise amounts.

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Rule 3.130 of the Florida Rules of Criminal Procedure sets a limit of 24 hours after arrest. The sheriff says first appearance is held by video from the jail to the courthouse, generally at 2:00 p.m. Monday through Friday, with other times on weekends and holidays. Family may watch. The clerk, at 300 East 4th Street, 850-747-5100, can answer questions about the court file.

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Bay sits in the Fourteenth Judicial Circuit, together with Calhoun, Gulf, Holmes, Jackson, and Washington counties. The circuit's chief judge, not the sheriff, decides whether to add stricter local release conditions. Ask the clerk whether any apply to the charge.

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A bail agent signs a surety bond that guarantees the person will return to court. The Florida Department of Financial Services, the licensing office, says the premium on a state bond is 10 percent of the bail set by the court. Section 648.33 requires the filed rate, no more and no less. Ask for the signed contract and a list of every fee.

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Under section 903.05, a private surety must be a Florida resident or own land in the state, and section 903.26 makes a recorded property bond a lien. That is the state rule, so ask the clerk at 850-747-5100 how Bay County handles it.

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Article I, section 14 of the Florida Constitution lets a judge hold someone for a capital or life offense when proof is evident, or when no conditions can keep the public safe or protect the court process. A violation of pretrial release can also lead to detention (section 903.0471). Out-of-county warrants and probation holds add other blocks. The sheriff adds that domestic violence battery and all felony cases must go to first appearance, where the judge sets bond.

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Bay families can get the report number and the person's whereabouts from the arresting department. Bay adults appear to be booked into the county jail on Star Lane. Then try Bay County Inmate Search again in a few hours.

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The Bay Regional Juvenile Detention Center, 450 East 11th Street, Panama City, FL 32401, is the listed facility for Bay County youth and also serves Calhoun, Gulf, Holmes, Jackson, and Washington counties. The clerk's juvenile page lists the phone as 850-872-4706. Juvenile cases are confidential, so adults' records will not show a child.

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In Bay, tell the first appearance judge you can't pay a lawyer. The Fourteenth Circuit public defender covers Bay County. The clerk's office, 850-747-5100, can point you to it.

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A missed date can cost the bond. Section 903.26 gives the surety 60 days from the mailing of the notice to pay, and section 903.28 permits partial remission when the person is surrendered, with the share falling over time. Phone the agent and a lawyer immediately.

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In Bay, cash held by the court usually returns after the case, minus costs, fines, and fees. The sheriff says money is returned on a debit card, handed out in the front lobby on the next business day if the release was after hours. A bail agent's 10 percent premium, according to the Department of Financial Services, is nonrefundable once the person is out of jail, but must be returned if the person is never released. An agent has 21 days from the court's discharge of the bond to hand collateral back. Keep every receipt.

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In Bay, anyone asking for crypto, gift cards or a cash app is running a scam. The Bay jail never calls families demanding money. Hang up and dial 850-785-5245 yourself.

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• With Form I-247A, ICE can ask the Bay jail to keep a person.
• That extra hold in Bay lasts up to 48 hours.
• In Bay, weekends and holidays count toward those 48 hours.
• Posting bond in Bay does not end an ICE hold.
• Under F.S. 908.105, the Bay judge setting bond must hear about it.
• The Bay state attorney gets notice as well.
• Florida law (F.S. 908.11) puts the Bay sheriff in the 287(g) program.
• ICE lists these 287(g) models for Bay:
  • Task Force Model
  • Warrant Service Officer
• If ICE takes someone from Bay, search the ICE detainee locator.

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