The Sheriff's online roster works as a live report that updates while it is open on your screen. Use it like this:

1. Load the roster page on whatever device you have.
2. A short "are you human" check may pop up before the list loads. Complete it.
3. Scan for the last name. If it isn't there, try other spellings.
4. Tap the entry to open it. Jot down any booking number you see, because jail staff can pull a file faster with it.
5. Read the charges, remembering that being charged is not the same as being found guilty.

Keep two notes in mind. Release dates for sentences are best guesses, not promises. The roster may also list people on the Sheriff's work crew or wearing an electronic monitor for Community Corrections, so a name doesn't always mean a cell. Questions go to the jail at 503-325-8641.

Around 2,500 people are booked and released at this jail each year, so the list changes by the hour. When a name won't show, it's often because:

• Booking isn't finished. Prints, a photo and paperwork all come first, so expect a delay.
• They're already home. Plenty of minor arrests end in release on a signed promise, and others end when bail gets paid.
• They got a ticket. Rather than book them, an officer may hand over a ticket that lists a court date.
• Someone else holds them. Another county's warrant, a federal case or a prison transfer can mean a different building.
• They're a minor. Teens are taken to youth detention, never to Warrenton.
• The name is entered differently. Search a legal first name, each part of a double last name, or a maiden name.

To confirm custody, call the jail at 503-325-8641. The Sheriff's Office main desk, 503-325-8635, is staffed weekdays from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

This county has a single adult jail, capped at 148 people by the county board. If the person isn't listed, try these next:

• Columbia County Jail (east), 901 Port Ave, St. Helens, OR 97051, 503-366-4630. Details are on our Columbia jail page.
• Tillamook County Jail (south), 5995 Long Prairie Rd., Tillamook, OR 97141, a 24-hour line at 503-842-3422. Details are on our Tillamook jail page.
• Washington County Jail (southeast), 215 SW Adams Ave, Hillsboro, OR 97123, a 24-hour line at 503-846-2600. Details are on our Washington jail page.
• Yamhill County Youth Services Center (anyone under 18), 535 NE 5th Street, McMinnville, OR 97128, 503-434-7407. Details are on our youth detention page.
• FCI Sheridan (some federal cases), 27072 Ballston Road, Sheridan, OR 97378, 503-843-4442.

It works the other way too. The Warrenton jail rents some beds to other places, and Benton County sends a share of its sentenced inmates here.

Not as a rule. HB 3273 (2021) bars Oregon law enforcement from giving out a booking photo except in a handful of situations:

• to the person pictured, the victim, or anyone named as a party in the case;
• publicly, if police need it for their work, like tracking down a suspect who fled;
• after a conviction from that same arrest.

The law also targets pay-to-remove mugshot websites. On request, such a site has 30 days to pull the photo and may charge no more than $50. When charges were dropped, dismissed or set aside, the site must remove it within seven days at no cost.

For photos or other records, call the Sheriff's Office at 503-325-8635 or file a public records request. News media make requests the same way. For ICE photos, use ICE records requests. Federal booking photos generally stay private, although the U.S. Marshals may post one when hunting for someone who ran.

Oregon's version of VINE is called VISOR. It is run by the Oregon Department of Corrections, and it watches custody status at county jails and state prisons alike.

1. On the VISOR site, type in part or all of the name. A State ID or County ID works too.
2. Pass the captcha.
3. Choose the person, then pick phone, email or text for your alerts.
4. Creating an account is optional. Your sign-up stays confidential, and the person in jail isn't told.

You'll hear if the person is let go, transferred, escapes or dies. VISOR answers its phone 24 hours a day at 855-691-6246. Treat it as one safety tool among several.

Oregon's term for bail is "security release," and the rules differ from most states. Plenty of people leave without paying a cent:

• On many low-level charges, a standing court order lets the jail free the person on a written promise to show up in court.
• For domestic violence, sex crimes, Measure 11 crimes and the like, only a judge can set release, usually at arraignment.
• If a judge sets security, the family typically deposits a tenth of it, with a $25 minimum (ORS 135.265).
• The jail takes bail at all hours. The courthouse takes it during its business hours.
• Make checks and money orders payable to the circuit court clerk.
• Oregon uses no bondsmen. Families pay the deposit to the court themselves.

Jail staff confirm amounts at 503-325-8641. Every payment step, plus refunds, appears in our bail and release guide.

The roster entry shows the booking charges. Those may shift, because the District Attorney picks which charges go into the court filing.

• Online: after filing, type the name into OJD's free Records and Calendar Search.
• By phone: the circuit court's criminal desk, 503-325-8555, option 3, can give the case number and charges.
• The prosecutor: District Attorney's Office, 800 Exchange Street, Astoria, OR 97103, 503-325-8581.
• Reports: ask the arresting agency, or send a records request for Sheriff's Office files.

In Oregon, felonies and misdemeanors each come in Class A, B and C. A violation is the lowest level and carries only a fine.

The person speaks up at the first court appearance and asks the judge for a lawyer. The Oregon Public Defense Commission covers the cost for people who can't pay.

• Paychecks, rent and debts go on a one-page sheet that a court screener weighs.
• Most pay a $20 application fee, which the court may waive. Being broke won't cost anyone their right to a lawyer.
• Defenders are scarce in Oregon. Under a federal order from the Betschart case, a person who is held and has gone a week since the first appearance with no lawyer generally must be freed on conditions, and the case moves on.

The circuit court's criminal desk, 503-325-8555, can say which lawyer was assigned. Hiring privately? Ring the Lawyer Referral Service, a program of the Oregon State Bar, at 800-452-7636. A first meeting through it lasts up to 30 minutes and costs no more than $50. The Bar's Modest Means program offers reduced fees to people with moderate incomes.

Face-to-face visits run Saturday and Sunday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., pausing for lunch. Each person in custody may have one visit weekly, up to an hour long. Call the jail at 503-325-8641 to plan one.

• Show photo ID, and be on the person's approved visitor list.
• Visitors must be 18 or older.
• Former inmates of this jail must wait 60 days after their own release.
• People on probation, parole or electronic monitoring can't visit.
• Codefendants and victims can't visit.
• Anyone with a pending drug charge, or a drug conviction in the past two years, is barred.
• A restraining order or no-contact order rules out a visit. Being on a second inmate's list does too, unless you're immediate family.
• Phones, bags and purses stay out of the visiting room. Taking pictures isn't allowed.
• Wear proper clothes with nothing gang-related or provocative. Staff may search any visitor.
• Don't come under the influence. A broken rule can suspend visits for as long as 90 days.

Video visits from home are available as well. Our visiting guide explains how they generally work.

A kiosk in the jail lobby accepts cash at any hour. Bring ID, and expect a fee. The lobby is at 1190 SE 19th St., Warrenton, OR 97146.

• Mailed deposits must be a money order or a cashier's check. Travelers Express checks get turned away.
• Cash should never go in an envelope.
• Personal checks can't be deposited. Any that arrive wait in the person's property until they leave.

To hear about any other deposit options, call the jail at 503-325-8641. Our inmate money guide covers how accounts work, and what it can buy is on our commissary page.

Each Oregon jail must have written phone rules (ORS 169.076). State law also caps the cut a phone company can pay a jail, county or city at five cents per completed minute, unless state utility regulators set another figure (ORS 169.681).

• Phone rules differ by jail. Ask staff at 503-325-8641 how calls work here and what they cost.
• Where the charge is domestic abuse, sexual or bias-motivated, the victim is off limits. No calls, and no messages passed through friends (ORS 135.247).

Our jail phone guide covers calling basics, and our inmate email guide covers messages.

Send everything through the U.S. Postal Service, since the jail won't accept drop-offs. Write the address like this:

Inmate's full name
c/o Clatsop County Jail
1250 SE 19th St.
Warrenton, OR 97146

• Every piece of incoming mail is opened and checked.
• Photos may be 4 by 6 inches at most, and sexual images are banned.
• Books have to be new and mailed directly by a publisher, book club or store. The limit is 9 by 12 inches, with no hardcovers and no spiral, plastic or metal bindings.
• Three books and three magazines are the most a person can hold at once.
• No threats, escape plans or coded writing.
• Letters for someone who has left or been moved are returned to the sender.

Our jail mail guide has more tips.

The jail keeps a person's belongings while they're held. Ahead of release, phone 503-325-8641 to learn how belongings and any leftover money are handed back, and whether a relative may collect them.

Evidence follows its own process. When officers seize an item for a case, the Sheriff's evidence technician gives it back by appointment only. Call 503-325-8635 at least a day ahead, Monday through Friday between 9 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.

• Bring a driver's license or state ID card.
• A gun is released only after a background check.
• Seized evidence returns once the case closes and the District Attorney signs off, often around 90 days after sentencing.

Yes. Oregon requires whoever runs a jail to provide necessary medical aid (ORS 169.140). State jail standards also call for emergency care, both medical and dental, and for written health procedures when people arrive and leave (ORS 169.076).

• Jails can bill a health care fee, but only when care is given to everyone who needs it, money or not (ORS 169.150).
• Jails must turn away anyone brought in unconscious (ORS 169.105).
• Someone on staff must check every person no less than hourly (ORS 169.076).

If the person needs medicine or has a serious health problem, tell jail staff at 503-325-8641. Beyond state inspections, many Oregon jails volunteer for an Oregon Jail Standards review as well.

Warrants for the whole county are kept at the jail, so the Sheriff's Office can answer questions at 503-325-8635. A case behind a warrant appears in the state court search. For fugitive lists, see the DOC Most Wanted page (tip line 877-831-0389), the Marshals' top 15 and the FBI's Portland office, 9109 NE Cascades Parkway, Portland, OR 97220, 503-224-4181. A warrant usually spells out the security for release. Clearing one usually means hiring a lawyer and then walking into the jail with them to surrender, or phone the court to seek a new date. The court clerk works at 749 Commercial Street, Astoria, OR 97103, 503-325-8555.

Upcoming circuit court hearings appear on the free Oregon circuit court calendars. The criminal desk at 503-325-8555 (press 3) can also look up a date.

• People in custody usually go before the judge by video at 1:15 p.m. on a court day.
• Anyone released without a date gets their arraignment time from jail staff.
• In jailed cases, the following hearing tends to land roughly three weeks after arraignment.
• City courts set their own calendars, so call the city court for those.

Our criminal court guide walks through the full case.

Federal cases from the North Coast are filed in the Portland Division of the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon, 1000 Southwest Third Avenue, Suite 740, Portland, OR 97204 (Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse), 503-326-8000.

1. Within days, a magistrate judge rules on whether they stay locked up or go home, using 18 U.S.C. 3142.
2. Jail beds for federal defendants awaiting trial get picked by the U.S. Marshals Service. Its Portland staff at 1000 Southwest 3rd Avenue, Room 401, Portland, OR 97204, can say where the person is at 503-326-2209.
3. Detainees may be kept at FCI Sheridan, 27072 Ballston Road, Sheridan, OR 97378, 503-843-4442. A county jail with a past Marshals agreement, like Columbia County's jail in St. Helens (901 Port Ave, St. Helens, OR 97051, 503-366-4630), may hold them instead.
4. A lawyer at no cost to qualifying defendants comes through the Federal Public Defender, 101 SW Main, Suite 1700, Portland, OR 97204, 503-326-2123.
5. After sentencing, look them up with the Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate locator.

An immigration hold is federal business, apart from the county case. Here is how it tends to unfold:

1. To ask for a hold, ICE files a paper called Form I-247A at the jail.
2. On it, ICE asks for them to be kept for up to 48 hours after they would otherwise be released (8 CFR 287.7(d)).
3. Oregon's sanctuary laws (ORS 181A.820 to 181A.829; HB 3265, 2021) step in. Oregon police and jails need a judge's signature before they can honor an immigration request. So a detainer alone generally won't keep anyone in the Warrenton jail, and staff won't share release details to help immigration enforcement.
4. When ICE itself takes the person into custody, look them up on the ICE Online Detainee Locator using name and country of birth.
5. You can also reach the Portland ICE office, which reports to the Seattle Field Office, at 4310 S Macadam Ave, Suite 300, Portland, OR 97239, 503-326-4165.

When a judge imposes a prison term, the Oregon Department of Corrections takes over. Coffee Creek Correctional Facility, 24499 SW Grahams Ferry Road, Wilsonville, OR 97070, handles intake. It takes about 30 days. Women serve their full term there; men are reassigned to another prison.

• Type their name into the Oregon Offender Search, a DOC lookup.
• In-person visits aren't allowed during intake, though calls and letters are. Mail them at the Coffee Creek address, and include the person's State ID (SID) number.
• DOC's general number is 503-945-9090.
• Our Oregon state prisons pages list each facility.

Kids 12 to 17 who are picked up are the Juvenile Department's responsibility, and none of them go to the adult jail. When a teen needs a secure bed, this county rents one at the Yamhill County Youth Services Center, 535 NE 5th Street, McMinnville, OR 97128, 503-434-7407.

• Phone the Juvenile Department first: 800 Exchange St., Suite 200, Astoria, OR 97103, 503-325-8601.
• Juvenile court sits within the circuit court. Call 503-325-8555, option 7.
• Youth cases are kept off the state's online court search.
• A judge can commit a teen to a facility run by the Oregon Youth Authority.

The county is home to roughly 40,926 residents, a Census estimate for July 1, 2025. Town sizes below come from PSU's certified July 1, 2025 estimates. All of these agencies take adults to the one jail in Warrenton.

• Sheriff's Office, 1190 SE 19th St., Warrenton, OR 97146, 503-325-8635; non-emergency 503-325-2061. Deputies handle calls across the rural county.
• Sheriff's Nehalem Valley Substation, 79532 Oregon Highway 202, Jewell, OR 97016, 503-755-2359.
• Sheriff's Columbia River Substation, 92435 Svensen Market Road, Knappa, OR 97103, 503-458-7054.
• Astoria Police Department (city of 10,247), 555 30th Street, Astoria, OR 97103, 503-325-4411.
• Seaside Police Department (city of 7,334), 1091 S. Holladay, Seaside, OR 97138, 503-738-6311.
• Warrenton Police Department (city of 6,506), 225 S. Main Avenue, Warrenton, OR 97146, 503-861-2235.
• Gearhart Police Department (city of 1,975), 698 Pacific Way, Gearhart, OR 97138, 503-738-5501.
• Cannon Beach Police Department (city of 1,541), on duty 24 hours a day, 503-436-2811.
• Oregon State Police, Astoria Area Command Center, 2320 SE Dolphin Avenue, Warrenton, OR 97146, 503-861-0781.

For an arrest at Clatsop Community College, ask the Sheriff's Office which agency took the call.