Most people arrested around Council go to the Adams County Jail, 201 Industrial Avenue, Council, ID 83612; phone 208-253-4227.

Adams families should check next-door jails after a highway arrest or an outside Council warrant. Jails near Council:

• Washington County Jail, 208-414-2124
• Valley County Jail, 208-382-7168
• Idaho County Jail, 208-983-1123

Each Adams County entry shows a Council booking date, Adams charges and many bonds. A common name can fit two Adams detainees, so compare age and Council booking date.

VINE on a phone: VINELink on the App Store and VINELink on Google Play.

Recent Adams bookings: Adams County jail intake and release list (last 72 hours).

Active Adams warrants: Adams County Sheriff warrant list.

To ask about an Adams warrant, call the sheriff at 208-253-4227; deputies may ask you to come in. The Idaho iCourt case search shows any Adams case and its dates.

Our Adams County bail guide explains Council bail amounts, payment and the court's role. Adams misdemeanor bail tracks Idaho's schedule, and a Council judge sets Adams felony bail.

Adams prisoners get booked property back at Council release; call 208-253-4227 to ask about pickup times.

• Adams visits: read our Adams County visitation page; Adams may offer video visits from home or the Council lobby, and Adams hours change.
• Phones and messages: Adams prisoners make outgoing calls only; Council families can prepay an Adams calling or text account.
• Money: sending money to an Adams inmate.
• Mail: put the Adams prisoner's full name and Council booking number on letters to the Adams County jail, and call 208-253-4227 for current Adams rules

The Office of the State Public Defender assigns Adams counsel when an Adams County defendant can't pay; ask the Council magistrate at the first appearance (208-605-4575).

The Adams County Courthouse is at 201 Industrial Avenue, Council, ID 83612; call 208-253-4561. Magistrates take misdemeanors and first appearances; Adams felonies go to a Council district judge. Find Adams dates on the Idaho iCourt case search.

Call 208-253-4227 and tell the Council shift supervisor about the concern. Adams staff keep medical facts private but pass your Council report along. In a Council emergency, call 911.

People under 18 go to juvenile detention, not the Adams adult jail. Southwest Idaho Juvenile Detention Center in Caldwell (208-454-7240); Adams County Juvenile Probation 208-253-4134.

Federal charges from Adams County go to the U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho, Southern Division, James A. McClure Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, 550 W. Fort St., Boise (208-334-1361). At the first federal appearance, the Adams defendant may get a detention hearing under 18 U.S.C. 3142. While the case is pending, the Adams defendant may sit in a contract county jail; 208-253-4227 can tell you if Council has them. After sentencing, the Bureau of Prisons assigns a prison; find the Adams defendant on the Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate locator.

1. Adams County screens new bookings under Idaho Code 18-9008 and notifies Homeland Security within 48 hours when an Adams prisoner may be foreign-born.
2. A Form I-247A detainer asks the Council jail to hold the defendant.
3. The Adams jail follows Idaho Code 18-9005(4) on reasonable detainers.
4. The Adams County hold runs at most 48 hours, counted straight through weekends and holidays.
5. The ICE Boise office (1185 S. Vinnell Way, Boise, ID 83709, 208-685-6635) takes Adams County detainees, many to the Elmore County Detention Center in Mountain Home.
6. Find the Adams detainee on the ICE Online Detainee Locator System.

After an Adams felony sentence, IDOC intake classifies the Council prisoner, then picks an Adams placement. Search the Idaho Department of Correction Resident/Client Search and read our Idaho state prisons guide.

Reporters may ask the Adams sheriff for Council mugshots as public records. Adams ICE photos: file an ICE FOIA request. Adams federal mugshots are not public, though the U.S. Marshals Service may post one for a Council fugitive.

Council and New Meadows are among the Adams communities. The arresting agency in Adams can say where it took the person.

• Adams County Sheriff's Office (non-emergency): 208-253-4227