The lookup is a Power BI dashboard on the county's own website. A good routine:

1. Tap the lookup link and give the dashboard a moment to load.
2. Enter the surname. No hit? Try a clipped spelling, the middle name or an older surname.
3. Open the entry and write down the ID number. The jail asks for it when you add money, send mail or book a visit.
4. Return later if the arrest was just made.

People held by city police are on a separate Yakima City Jail roster, and the police also publish recent city jail releases. The county jail lobby takes walk-ins Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Work through these ideas before you panic:

• Paperwork in progress. Booking can take hours.
• A police holding cell. City officers sometimes keep someone briefly before a transfer.
• A ticket. Some people sign a citation and leave.
• Already free. A judge could have sent the person home on a written promise, or someone could have posted a bond.
• Another facility. Think of the city jails, the tribal jail, a neighboring county or the state.
• A teenager. Juveniles skip adult booking.

Phone 509-574-1700 and ask for the Booking desk. A jail in this state must record each person held, the reason, and the day of release. Staff can check that record.

Six places may have your person:

• Main County Jail, 111 N Front Street, Yakima, WA 98901, 509-574-1700. The main jail takes felony suspects and most arrests by deputies and troopers. It also houses women and inmates with special needs for the cities.
• County Annex, 111 N Front Street, Yakima, WA 98901. It shares the campus, and visitors check in at its lobby. Ask which building the person is in.
• Yakima City Jail, 200 S 3rd Street, Yakima, WA 98901, 509-575-3571. About 79 beds, used for men on city misdemeanors.
• Sunnyside City Jail, 401 Homer Street, Sunnyside, WA 98944, 509-836-6212. Roughly 91 beds. It takes Sunnyside's own arrests, plus contract inmates sent by Wapato, Zillah, Granger, Mabton, Grandview and Toppenish.
• The Wapato lockup. Longer Wapato stays shift to Sunnyside or the county jail, so ask the Wapato court at 509-877-6269 where someone is.
• Yakama Nation Correction and Rehabilitation Facility, 1020 Fort Road, Toppenish, WA 98948, 509-865-8911. About 70 beds for adults and juveniles facing tribal charges.

Toppenish closed its own jail in 2017. Someone picked up near a county line might sit in a jail listed on JE for Benton, Kittitas or Klickitat County.

The county page says nothing about photos, so call 509-574-1700 before counting on mugshots. RCW 70.48.100 treats booking pictures from jails in this state as private, and police may still use them in investigations. One narrow exception covers booking photos of people convicted of sex offenses.

• To ask for a booking picture, reach out to the arresting department: the Sheriff's Office at 509-574-2500 or city police at 509-575-6200.
• To get a photo that ICE took, use the ICE records page.
• Other federal booking pictures stay private. Only the U.S. Marshals Service may release one, as when it hunts for a runaway suspect.

Yes. Washington's VINE service, at vinelink.com or 877-846-3492, sends the alerts. A statewide group of sheriffs and police chiefs operates it. It costs nothing and answers day and night.

• Coverage reaches every city and county lockup, along with state prisons and the Nisqually Tribal Jail.
• Where someone is held refreshes about twice an hour.
• Juvenile detention and court dates sit outside the service.

Judges here follow state court rules that begin with freeing the person on a promise to return. They may add terms, such as a bond, check-ins or no-contact orders, only on proof of real risk: skipping court, scaring witnesses or a violent act. The terms have to be the lightest that work, and ability to pay counts. A cash-only order is off the table.

• A first court appearance normally comes before the close of the next day the courthouse is open.
• If the arrest involved domestic violence, the person is kept until a judge rules, and a no-contact order often follows.
• A judge may refuse bail only in rare cases, and a hearing comes first.
• To pay, call 509-574-1700 with the booking number and ask which counter handles that charge.
• A bondsman must have county approval to post in its courts, and the city court keeps its own list. Check the license and get all fees in writing.

Details live on our bail page. For a light look at state law, try Washington bail laws.

Booking staff at 509-574-1700 can tell you the arrest charge. Once prosecutors file, Washington's free court case search displays the filing and points to the court holding it.

• County misdemeanors: the District Court clerk, 509-574-1804. City misdemeanors: that city's court clerk.
• Felonies: the County Clerk, 128 N 2nd Street, Room 323, Yakima, WA 98901, 509-574-1430.
• The Prosecuting Attorney, 128 N 2nd Street, Yakima, WA 98901, 509-574-1210, decides the formal charge. City attorneys file city cases.

Ask the judge to appoint a free lawyer at the opening court appearance. A screening follows. RCW 10.101.010 sets the test. A person qualifies on certain public benefits, on income of no more than 1.25 times the poverty guideline, or by lacking the money for a private attorney's price.

• County cases: Department of Assigned Counsel, 104 North 1st Street, Yakima, WA 98901, 509-574-1160.
• City cases: the city court clerk can name the city's contract defender.
• Attorney visits inside the jail: 509-574-1652.

Families can hire their own attorney instead. Learn about public defense statewide from the Office of Public Defense.

Visitors report to the Annex Lobby, 111 N Front Street, Yakima, WA 98901. The county's rules:

• Visits run Monday through Friday. For slot times, call 509-574-2929 on a weekday between 8 a.m. and 3:30 p.m.
• Reserve two business days ahead.
• Each inmate gets two half-hour visits a week, with at most two visitors, children included.
• Bring a photo ID.
• Video visits go through the Securus website and app, or the county visitation center, and only for people on the approved list.

Our visiting guide has more. For a city jail, use its number from the jail answer above.

Use the kiosk in the Main Jail lobby, or TouchPay online or by app, which the county's trust account page names for families. TouchPay's line is 866-232-1899. Keep the person's R Number and facility locator number 298907 handy. Fees apply. The county page is unclear about cash, so call 509-574-1700 and ask if the kiosk takes it.

See our deposit guide and commissary guide. A deposit never pays for release.

The county offers an inmate phone service, and the TouchPay app helps families add funds. Ask the jail at 509-574-1700 about call prices, text options and tablets. Assume that anything said on a jail line might be recorded.

Talks with an attorney follow other rules, so let the lawyer set those up. Further reading: our pages on jail telephone rules and jail email and texting.

Ordinary letters pass through a mail vendor. Print the person's name and six-digit ID number, with leading zeros, then add this address:

Yakima County WA, PO Box 20888, Tampa, FL 33622

• Greeting cards, stickers and magazines are refused.
• Books are accepted only from the publisher.
• Legal mail goes to the county Department of Corrections, 111 N Front Street, Yakima, WA 98901, with the name and booking number, marked "Legal Mail."

Never enclose cash. For questions, phone 509-574-1700, and see our mailing guide.

The jail keeps clothing and other items from booking until the person leaves. Ask about drop-offs and pickups at 509-574-1700. Go in person to 111 N Front Street, Yakima, WA 98901, during lobby hours (Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.) with photo ID. A form signed by the inmate could be required.

Call 509-574-1700 and ask for the jail's nurses. Tell them the full name, every pill with its strength and the prescriber. Inside, your loved one may also submit a clinic request.

A true emergency means 911. If someone seems close to a breakdown, say that clearly on the call.

Deputies act on warrants in unincorporated areas, while town police do so within their towns. Call the Sheriff's Office at 509-574-2500 or city police at 509-575-6200, since the county says it does not release warrant details itself. Trace a filed case with the statewide court search, or ask the District Court clerk at 509-574-1804. To resolve one, consult an attorney, then reach the issuing judge's court. The County Clerk's office is at 128 N 2nd Street, Room 323, Yakima, WA 98901.

Every court runs its own calendar, and dw.courts.wa.gov can show a date too. Read the stages on our court page.

• Superior Court (felonies), 128 N 2nd Street, Room 314, Yakima, WA 98901, 509-574-2710.
• District Court, 128 N 2nd Street, Suite 217, Yakima, WA 98901, 509-574-1804. The Grandview branch is at 1313 W Wine Country Road, Grandview, WA 98930, 509-574-1800.
• Yakima Municipal Court, 200 S 3rd Street, Yakima, WA 98901, 509-575-3050.
• Sunnyside Municipal Court, 401 Homer Street, Sunnyside, WA 98944, 509-839-4427. Toppenish cases come here too.
• Other city courts, by phone: Selah 509-698-7329, Zillah 509-829-3543, Granger 509-854-0238.

The valley sits inside the Eastern District of Washington. The federal courthouse nearest home is at 25 South 3rd Street, Room 201, Yakima, WA 98901, 509-573-6600. Because the district's main office is in Spokane, call that clerk at 509-458-3400 (920 West Riverside Avenue, Room 840, Spokane, WA 99201) to learn where the case sits.

1. A detention hearing chooses between custody and release (18 U.S.C. 3142).
2. Before trial, the Marshals pick the bed, frequently one in a local jail. The Marshals' Spokane office sits at 920 West Riverside Avenue, Suite 200, Spokane, WA 99201, 509-842-1400.
3. The same clerk can point you to a federal defender.
4. For anyone now in a federal prison, search the Bureau of Prisons locator.

1. The jail receives ICE's detainer paperwork on Form I-247A.
2. Federal rule 8 CFR 287.7(d) lets a jail keep the person up to 48 hours after they would otherwise be released.
3. Limits come from RCW 10.93.160, a state law with the title Keep Washington Working Act. It tells local jails not to keep a person on a civil ICE warrant or detainer alone, and not to keep anyone just to learn immigration status.
4. ICE needs the person's written consent before a civil interview in jail. Under the same state law, no city or county here may sign a 287(g) deal with ICE.
5. Use the ICE Online Detainee Locator, or phone the Seattle Field Office, 12500 Tukwila International Boulevard, Seattle, WA 98168, 206-277-2000.
6. One ICE site in the state is the Northwest ICE Processing Center, 1623 E J St SE, Tacoma, WA 98421, 253-396-1611.

People given prison time start at a state Department of Corrections intake unit, which picks the placement. Until the ride happens they could stay at the county jail, so ask at 509-574-1700.

• Use the state's incarcerated individual search. Results list location and housing, with no photo.
• DOC headquarters: 7345 Linderson Way SW, Tumwater, WA 98501, 360-725-8213, weekdays 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
• Browse our Washington state prisons page.

Juvenile Court, not an adult jail, deals with anyone below 18. The Juvenile Justice Center is at 1728 Jerome Avenue, Yakima, WA 98902, 509-574-2090, and it has a page on JE. Court rule JuCR 7.3 sets a three-day review (72 hours, weekends and holidays excluded) for a child held with no charges. A child who gets no review is let go. The Yakama Nation facility may hold juveniles on tribal charges. Alerts do not reach juvenile detention, so ring the center.

The officers who made the arrest know where they dropped the person off. Numbers to try:

• Sheriff's Office, 1822 S 1st Street, Yakima, WA 98903. Round-the-clock lines: 509-574-2500 and 800-572-0490. Patrols the unincorporated areas.
• Yakima Police, 200 S 3rd Street, Yakima, WA 98901, 509-575-6200.
• Sunnyside, Law and Justice Center, 401 Homer Street, Sunnyside, WA 98944, 509-836-6200.
• Toppenish Police, 220 W 1st Avenue, Toppenish, WA 98948, dispatch 509-248-4020.
• Yakama Nation jail control, 1020 Fort Road, Toppenish, WA 98948, 509-865-8911.

Departments in Selah, Wapato, Zillah, Granger, Grandview, Union Gap, Moxee, Mabton, Tieton, Naches and Harrah can be reached by asking the Sheriff's line for a referral. The State Patrol contact page lists the nearest district office.