El Dorado County Placerville Jail Inmate Search

El Dorado County Placerville Jail Overview

El Dorado County Placerville Jail is operated by the El Dorado County Sheriff's Office Custody Division under Sheriff Jeff Leikauf. The Sheriff's custody page identifies a two-jail county system: the Placerville Facility and the South Lake Tahoe Facility. Placerville is the primary and larger jail facility, while El Dorado County South Lake Tahoe Jail serves the Tahoe basin side of the county.

The Placerville jail holds adult county jail inmates. That includes pretrial detainees, people awaiting court in El Dorado Superior Court, people serving local jail sentences, and people booked on local warrants or holds. The Sheriff's public pages do not publish building-by-building male, female, pod, or classification breakdowns. The countywide roster also does not show a public housing-unit column, so a reader who needs to know whether a specific person is physically in Placerville should use the roster first and then call the jail when the location matters for visiting, legal mail, or travel.

The official Sheriff custody page gives the Placerville Facility a published capacity of 303 inmates and 8 outpatient medical beds. It does not publish a year built, public booking-desk schedule, accreditation status, jail floor plan, visitor parking rates, or detailed security-level categories. Those missing items matter because the absence of a public detail is different from an unverified detail. The safest public path is to rely on the Sheriff's custody page, the official Citizen RIMS current-inmates roster, and the facility phone line.

The Sheriff's custody page shows the county's two-facility structure and published capacities.

That custody page is the source for the Placerville capacity figure and for the countywide context that the jail is one part of a two-facility Sheriff's custody division.

El Dorado County Placerville Jail Capacity and Population

The sourced facility capacity is 303 inmates plus 8 outpatient medical beds, according to the El Dorado County Sheriff's custody page accessed in the research on May 31, 2026. The companion South Lake Tahoe jail has capacity for 158 inmates, making the combined published county jail capacity 461 jail beds plus the Placerville medical-bed notation. The research also found a Citizen RIMS public roster count of 268 records on May 31, 2026, but that count is countywide and point in time. It should not be described as a Placerville-only population or as a formal average daily population.

Countywide population context helps explain who may be in Placerville. Vera's El Dorado County fact sheet reported an average daily jail population of 280 people in 2021, with 69% pretrial and 51% identified as having mental-health needs. Those Vera figures are countywide and historical, not a current Placerville housing census. They are useful because Placerville has the larger local bed count and includes the only outpatient medical-bed figure published in the Sheriff's facility descriptions.

How to Look Up an Inmate at El Dorado County Placerville Jail

Use the official El Dorado Sheriff Citizen RIMS Incarcerated People roster for current county jail custody. The roster is countywide for both Placerville and South Lake Tahoe. It is not a separate Placerville-only roster, and the inspected public fields do not expose a facility or housing-unit column. The roster shows booking number, name, booking date, arresting agency, arrest location, bail, status, and expanded charge details. The public El Dorado configuration disables booking photos and demographic fields such as date of birth, age, race, sex, height, and weight.

1. Open the Sheriff's Current Inmates link or go directly to the Citizen RIMS incarcerated-people page.
2. Use the First and Last name fields, or expand the options to filter by start and end date.
3. Review the roster row for booking number, name, booking date, arresting agency, arrest location, bail, and custody status.
4. Open the matching row to review booking details and charge lines, then call Placerville Jail at (530) 621-6000 if the public roster does not show the location detail you need.

If no result appears, search with fewer name fields and consider timing or custody changes. A new booking may not appear immediately, juvenile offender information is not provided, an incomplete booking may be withheld, and a person may already have been released, transferred to CDCR after sentencing, moved into federal custody, or held through another channel. For notifications, California VINELink can be useful when a family member or victim wants custody-change alerts rather than a one-time roster check.

The Citizen RIMS current-inmate page is the official public roster for El Dorado County jail custody.

Because the roster is countywide and photos are disabled, it should be treated as a custody and booking-status tool rather than a Placerville housing list or mugshot gallery.

El Dorado County Placerville Jail Address and Contact

The public jail contact line is the practical fallback when Citizen RIMS does not answer a facility-specific question. Call before traveling for evening visits, before sending legal or medical mail, and before relying on an online record that may have changed. The Sheriff's Placerville headquarters and Records Unit are separate from the jail address, so use the jail address for jail business and the Records Unit address for report or booking-record requests.

Visiting Someone at El Dorado County Placerville Jail

Placerville in-person visits are first come, first served. Proper identification is required before visiting. Only one visitor may visit an inmate at a time, with an exception for a minor escorted by a parent or legal guardian. Each visitor is limited to three 30-minute visits per week and one visit per day unless jail administration approves otherwise. Each inmate is also limited to three 30-minute visits per week. Legal holidays are closed, and posted hours can change.

Final check-in is part of the schedule, not an optional suggestion. Morning check-in closes at 10:30 AM, afternoon check-in closes at 3:30 PM, and evening check-in closes at 9:30 PM. The Sheriff's visiting page also says to call before evening visiting to confirm it has not been cancelled. This is especially important for visitors coming from Tahoe, rural county communities, or U.S. Highway 50 travel corridors where winter weather and traffic can affect arrival time.

Do not bring cell phones, cameras, electronics, handbags, writing supplies, books, food, or beverages into the visiting area. Clothing rules bar bare backs, exposed chests or abdomens, tank tops, half tops, spaghetti straps, bathing suits, short shorts, skirts or dresses shorter than mid-thigh, sheer fabric, exposed undergarments, gang attire, and most headwear. Shoes are required. Visitors with CDCR prison history or current parole, PRCS, or probation status may need prior written approval from the Jail Commander or supervising officer.

The official Sheriff's visiting page publishes separate schedules for Placerville and South Lake Tahoe.

Use the Placerville-specific lines on that schedule, since the Tahoe jail has different evening visiting days.

Mail, Phone, and Money at El Dorado County Placerville Jail

Routine personal mail for Placerville inmates does not go to Forni Road. The Sheriff's inmate correspondence page routes routine physical mail to a processing address in Longview, Texas, where mail is scanned, delivered electronically, and destroyed after processing. Legal and medical mail are different. Legal and medical correspondence must be sent to the actual facility where the inmate is housed, so call the jail first if the roster does not confirm the location.

Mail must include the inmate name, Sheriff's booking number, and return address. The correspondence page limits accepted mail to 8.5 inches by 11 inches, front side only, with a maximum of five pages and one photo per mailing. Mail over the page limit will not be sent and will be returned. More than one photo causes the entire mailing to be returned. Do not send magazines, bulk mail, newspapers, money, books, legal mail, or medical mail to the Texas processing address.

The Sheriff's inmate correspondence page explains the mail-processing, NCIC phone, video, and CorrectPay messaging rules.

The most important facility-specific distinction is that routine personal mail uses the Texas scan-mail address, while legal and medical mail must be routed to the actual jail facility.

Booking and Intake at El Dorado County Placerville Jail

A typical El Dorado County jail booking starts with an arrest by the Sheriff's Office, California Highway Patrol, Placerville Police, South Lake Tahoe Police, tribal police, or another agency. The Sheriff's Custody Division then creates the jail booking record. The research sample records showed that booking agency and arresting agency can differ, with EDSO as the booking agency while the original arresting agency may be CHP or another local agency. That distinction matters because a police report, a jail booking record, and a court case file are different records.

During booking, staff identify the person, enter arrest and charge information, record bail or hold status when available, screen for medical or mental-health needs, classify housing, and provide access to phones and messaging. The Placerville capacity listing includes 8 outpatient medical beds, but the Sheriff's public pages do not provide a public medical-classification manual. The roster may lag behind intake because the public Citizen RIMS configuration requires booking completion before a person appears.

For records after release, the Sheriff's Records Unit is the fallback. The Records page states that some reports are released under California public-records rules, some releases are discretionary or legally restricted, and report copies cost $0.25 per page. The office says it responds to public-records requests within 10 working days. Local CORI requests are separate subject-history requests under Penal Code sections 13300-13326 and include 10 years of El Dorado booking and release dates when available.

Programs and County Jail Context

The Sheriff's Inmate Services page describes countywide jail programs rather than a Placerville-only class schedule. Programs may be added or removed at jail management discretion. Adult education is run with the El Dorado County Office of Education and El Dorado Adult School, with classes that may include GED preparation, English as a Second Language, adult basic education, high school diploma work, adult enrichment, and career awareness. Inmates must want to learn and be in custody at least six weeks to enroll in the education program described in the research.

Other countywide programming includes HEARTS, a three-month substance-abuse education program focused on Health Education, Addiction Recovery Toward Self-Responsibility; chaplain and religious services; Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous; parenting classes; MRT, listed by the Sheriff's page as Moral Recognition Therapy; and anger management. The program page frames these services as constructive use of jail time and reentry support.

The Sheriff's inmate services page lists education, recovery, religious, and reentry-oriented programs for the county jail system.

These programs apply as county jail services, so availability for a particular Placerville inmate can depend on custody status, length of stay, classification, and jail management decisions.