Placerville Jail Release Lookup

Placerville Jail Releases

The El Dorado County Sheriff's Office Custody Division operates the Placerville facility. The official custody page identifies Placerville as one of two El Dorado jail facilities and lists capacity of 303 inmates plus 8 outpatient medical beds. Alpine County names El Dorado as a contract jail-service county, so this facility can be the physical custodian even when the arrest or court case began in Alpine County.

A release from Placerville can lead to several places. The person may leave on bond, own-recognizance release, time served, citation, court order, sentence completion, or transfer. If the person is no longer in El Dorado current custody, do not treat the missing listing as the final answer. Confirm through El Dorado Records, California VINE, and Alpine Superior Court if the release was tied to an Alpine case.

The El Dorado custody page is the source for the two-facility custody structure. The screenshot below shows why Alpine release research often has to leave the Alpine County site and use El Dorado custody tools.

Use the custody page for active custody direction, then switch to records channels for a former detainee.

Confirm a Placerville Release

Placerville release confirmation should start with the live custody tool only if the person may still be held. El Dorado links to Current Inmates through Citizen RIMS. Current lists are useful before release, but they are not the same as a historical release archive. After release, El Dorado Records is the stronger source.

1. Search El Dorado Current Inmates by name while custody may still be active.
2. Check California VINE if a release, pending release, or transfer alert is needed for a specific person.
3. Request the booking/release record from El Dorado Records if the person has dropped from current custody.
4. Ask for booking date, release date and time, arresting agency, charges, holds, release reason, and transfer destination.
5. Check Alpine Superior Court for the case event that caused release, such as bail, dismissal, sentence, time served, or transfer.

Placerville Records Contact

The El Dorado Records Unit states that it maintains reports, booking records, warrants, and restraining orders. Public records requests can be submitted in person, by fax, or by mail, and the office states a response within 10 working days. Report copies are listed at $0.25 per page, cash or check only.

Alpine Cases at Placerville

For an Alpine arrestee housed in Placerville, the records can be split. El Dorado may hold the booking number, jail dates, custody facility, release reason, and any booking photo. Alpine Sheriff may hold the arrest or transport report. Alpine Superior Court may hold the order that explains why custody ended. A complete release confirmation often needs all three.

Government Code section 7923.610 is the useful public-records anchor because it covers public arrest information and includes the time and manner of release or current holding location. Requesters should ask for that field in plain terms. If the record says released to CDCR, another county, ICE, or a federal agency, the next search belongs in that receiving system.

Note: El Dorado states it does not confirm warrants to the public over the phone, so warrant questions may require court or in-person records verification.

Placerville Request Wording

A strong Placerville request names both the person and the Alpine connection. Use the full legal name, date of birth if known, arrest date, booking date if known, arresting agency, and the Alpine court case number if one exists. Ask for the booking and release entry, not just a general incident report. The clearest requested fields are booking date and time, release date and time, release reason, charges, bail or bond status, holds, and transfer destination. If the person was released to another custodian, ask for the receiving agency name.

For the subject of the record, El Dorado's local CORI route is important because the research states it can show El Dorado County Jail booking and release dates for 10 years, arresting agency, and charges. That route is not a public browse list of all released people. It is a subject-history product with identification and fee requirements. For a public-purpose request, the records unit may instead provide the public arrest and release information allowed by state law, with redactions when a limit applies.

Placerville records should also be compared with Alpine court records. If the court minutes show time served, dismissal, bail posted, probation, or a prison commitment, that court record explains the jail release reason. If the jail entry says transfer, use the destination system next. A transfer to CDCR points to CIRIS and parole records. A transfer to ICE points to ODLS. A transfer to federal custody points to BOP only after the person is in BOP custody or sentenced federally.

Placerville Release Checklist

Before contacting records staff, gather the person's full legal name, date of birth, approximate arrest date, suspected Alpine case number, and any known booking number. If the name search is uncertain, include aliases or spelling variants from the court record. Ask for the release entry tied to the booking, not a broad search of unrelated records. If a booking photo is part of the request, ask whether El Dorado holds it and whether a fee or redaction review applies.