Use any phone or computer and follow this order:

1. Open the online roster.
2. Enter only the surname. Adding a first name trims a long set of matches.
3. Click the matching row to see the charges, bond and booking date.
4. Copy those details onto paper. Then ring 865-992-6262 to double check, because a website can trail the real cell block.

Type the name as it reads on a state ID. Nicknames will not match.

Finding nothing does not prove they are out. Possible reasons include:

• Booking is still underway, which can drag on for hours.
• An officer has them at a station and has not driven them to Maynardville yet.
• They were handed a citation with a court date and sent home.
• Someone already paid bond, or the judge allowed a promise to appear.
• Another county's cells or a state agency may hold them.

Test other spellings. Then call 865-992-6262 and ask for Booking. If staff do not know the name, learn which department arrested the person and ring it next.

The main stop is the Union County Jail at 130 Veteran's Street, Maynardville, TN 37807, reachable at 865-992-6262. It holds adult men and women arrested in the county.

Our research turned up no second building here, such as a work release site or town lockup. Still, ask jail staff whether your person was shifted anywhere.

Someone arrested over the county line could be sitting in that county's jail. Ask the officers who arrested them where they went. People held for the federal government, immigration officers or the state could also be elsewhere, and later answers explain how to search for them.

The search is set up to show charges and bond amounts. We could not confirm that it also shows mugshots. Call the Sheriff's Office at 865-992-5212 and see if a booking photo can go out.

Tennessee's open records act covers pictures that public offices keep. Many sheriffs post photos with their lists. Yet no rule names booking photos, so the office that took the shot decides.

A person in ICE hands can be photographed for records you request on the ICE records page. Other federal agencies hold booking photos back, though the U.S. Marshals Service sometimes releases one, as it might for a fugitive.

Sign up with Tennessee VINE. It follows custody status and location and can text, call or email you. Register at vinelink.vineapps.com under the Tennessee choice. A live operator is on the line day and night at 888-868-4631.

VINE may not cover every local jail, so confirm with the jail at 865-992-6262.

A judge or magistrate picks the bail amount. Jail staff cannot change it. The person goes before the court without unnecessary delay, and the judge reads the charge aloud and explains the right to counsel.

Cash bond goes, in full, to the Circuit Court Clerk, 901 Main Street, Suite 220, Maynardville, TN 37807, phone 865-992-5493. Offices run weekdays, about 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. A bondsman is another path. The fee runs about a tenth of the bond amount, and you do not get it back.

Paying does not always mean walking out right away. Certain domestic abuse or stalking arrests carry a cooling-off wait, so ask the jail about it. We lay out each step on the bail page, with Tennessee's bail laws as background.

Booking staff and the roster show the original charge. It can change once the state's lawyers read the police report.

For case papers, ring the Circuit Court Clerk at 865-992-5493 with the full name and birthday. Early hearings are handled through General Sessions Court at 865-992-5484. The District Attorney General for the Eighth Judicial District files the formal charges, and the clerks can help you find that office.

Often yes, but the person has to ask the court. At the first hearing they can say they want counsel and cannot pay. The judge reviews their money and rules.

The Eighth Judicial District Public Defender's office serves this area at 423-563-9701. It gets cases by court appointment, so the judge's order comes first.

Families may also hire a private attorney. Hand that attorney the booking date, charges and next hearing time.

The jail sets the visiting days, hours, dress rules and guest lists. Read our visitation page, then phone 865-992-6262 to learn whether visits happen in the building or over video.

Carry photo ID. Ask about children and whether the inmate must put you on a list. Rules shift after incidents, so call every time before leaving home.

Phone the jail first to learn which deposit methods it accepts. Our money page and commissary page describe common options.

Funds on a jail account never buy freedom. Bail goes to the clerk or a bondsman. Walk away from anyone promising faster release for a deposit.

Inmates start the calls, often collect or from a prepaid balance. Families cannot dial in. Our phone page and email page show how accounts, texts and video get set up.

Ask 865-992-6262 which service the jail uses, then open an account ahead of time. Assume the line is recorded.

Get the exact mailing address and the rules from the jail first at 865-992-6262. Letters that break a rule often come back to you.

Our mail page shows the usual layout. Put the whole name plus booking number on the outside. Leave out cash, stickers and tape.

The jail holds items taken during intake. Call 865-992-6262 to ask when a relative may pick things up, and bring ID.

A release slip signed by the inmate could be required. Cash and valuables have separate steps, so ask which paperwork fits.

Phone 865-992-6262 and ask for the jail's medical staff. Share the problem, daily medicines and allergies. Staff may not talk about records, but they will take your message.

Tell the inmate to file a sick call request. In an emergency, they should wave down an officer at once. Jot down when you called.

The Union County Sheriff's Office serves warrants. Call 865-992-5212, at 130 Veteran's Street, Maynardville, TN 37807. Town police may serve some too, so ask dispatch at 865-992-4062 which agency has the paper.

For court files, ask the Circuit Court Clerk at 865-992-5493, in the courthouse at 901 Main Street, Suite 220, Maynardville, TN 37807. To deal with one, see a lawyer first and next get in touch with the judge's court that put it out. Do not simply walk in without a plan.

The judge sets it at the first appearance, and the clerks can repeat it. General Sessions Court, 865-992-5484, handles early appearances, misdemeanors and felony preliminary hearings. Felony trials are tracked by the Circuit Court Clerk, 865-992-5493.

Both sit in the courthouse at 901 Main Street, Maynardville, TN 37807. Verify the room and time before driving over. Our court page shows the road from arrest to verdict.

Federal prosecutions of people from here start in the district court at 800 Market Street, Knoxville, TN 37902, in the Baker federal courthouse. Its region is the Eastern District's Northern Division. The clerk is at 865-545-4228.

Under 18 U.S.C. 3142 a detention hearing decides whether the accused goes home or stays held. The U.S. Marshals office is at 800 Market Street, Suite 320, Knoxville, TN 37902, phone 865-824-3801.

A federal lawyer may be assigned through Federal Defender Services of Eastern Tennessee, 800 South Gay Street, Suite 2400, Knoxville, TN 37929, 865-637-7979. Once sentenced, look in the BOP inmate locator.

ICE uses Form I-247A, a detainer, when it writes to the jail. Under 8 CFR 287.7(d), it asks that the person stay up to 48 hours after they would otherwise be released, which gives ICE time to collect them.

Look for detainees with the ICE Online Detainee Locator. Tennessee falls under ICE's New Orleans office. On its immigration enforcement page, the county appears on the state's list of 287(g) participants. Ask the jail at 865-992-6262 whether a detainer exists.

Once sentenced to state time, a person is moved to a Tennessee Department of Correction intake unit, where staff choose the right prison. Some wait in the county jail first, so call to ask.

The TDOC offender search can list a picture, custody status, place held, crime and term. The agency is at 320 Sixth Avenue North, Nashville, TN 37243, 615-741-1000. Our Tennessee prisons page adds more.

Young people are heard in Juvenile Court and housed away from adults. Act fast.

Ring the Circuit Court Clerk at 865-992-5493, 901 Main Street, Suite 220, Maynardville, TN 37807, to learn the child's location and the detention hearing time. Ask for a court lawyer there. Youth records are guarded, so staff may share little by phone.

Deputies from the Union County Sheriff's Office patrol the area, and the same office operates the jail. Records is at 865-992-5212, 130 Veteran's Street, Maynardville, TN 37807. Non-emergency dispatch is 865-992-4062, and Criminal Investigations is 865-992-9407.

If a town or campus officer made the arrest, dispatch can name the agency. Troopers of the Tennessee Highway Patrol cover state routes. Find the district for this area on the THP contacts list.