El Dorado County Jail Mugshots Overview
The official El Dorado County Sheriff's Office roster is the Citizen RIMS "Incarcerated People" page. It is linked from the Sheriff's quick links as Current Inmates and is the correct online source for present jail custody at the El Dorado County Placerville Jail and the El Dorado County South Lake Tahoe Jail. The important mugshot fact is narrow and specific: the public El Dorado Citizen RIMS configuration inspected May 31, 2026 had inmatesPhotosEnabled=false. The software can support an inmate-photo field, but El Dorado's public setup disables booking photos.
That means the official current-inmates roster should not be described as an online mugshot gallery. The public roster can show booking number, name, booking date, arresting agency, arrest location, bail, custody status, and charge lines. It does not publicly show mugshots, date of birth, age, sex, race, height, weight, hair color, eye color, build, complexion, housing location, or court date in the inspected configuration. Citizen RIMS media bulletins may list selected incidents or arrests, but they are not a complete booking-photo feed. No official Sheriff's daily booking-photo PDF or recent-bookings mugshot gallery was located.
Public and not public: El Dorado's public roster identifies current jail custody and charges, but it does not publish booking photos online. A booking photo or fuller booking record must be requested through an official records channel and may still be withheld if a legal restriction applies.
How to Find or Request an El Dorado County Booking Photo
Start with the official roster even though photos are disabled. The roster provides identifiers that make a later records request more precise. If the person is not listed, the booking may not be complete, the person may have been released or transferred, the record may be juvenile or restricted, or the person may be in state, federal, or immigration custody rather than an El Dorado County jail.
- Open the Sheriff's Citizen RIMS incarcerated-people roster and search by first name, last name, or date range through the expanded options.
- Open the matching row and capture the booking number, full roster name, booking date and time, original arresting agency, arrest location, charges, total bail, and status.
- Do not expect an online booking photo on the profile. The public photo field is disabled for El Dorado County.
- Use the Sheriff's Public Records Request form for a booking photo or booking record that is not published online, subject to identity, fee, and release restrictions.
- For filed charges or sealing orders after the arrest, check court records after jail arrest because the court case is separate from the jail booking record.
The Citizen RIMS roster is useful because it shows current booking rows and expandable charge detail even without public photos. The screenshot below is closely matched to this page because it shows the official roster interface readers must use before making a photo or booking-record request.
The roster loads an initial set of current records and can filter by name or dates. Rows are clickable and keyboard-accessible for expanded detail. If no record appears, search with fewer name fields, check spelling, and consider the custody channel. A sentenced state-prison inmate belongs in CDCR CIRIS, not the county jail roster. A federal sentence belongs in the BOP locator. An immigration detainee may need ICE ODLS.
Sample Record Photo and Field Inventory
The public El Dorado County roster is less photo-heavy than many county jail pages. Its sample booking profiles showed custody and charge data, while the photo and demographic blocks were disabled. This matters for accuracy: a visible charge line or booking number is public roster information, but a mugshot is not promised by the official online view.
| Field | What It Shows |
|---|---|
| Booking Photo | Not shown in the public El Dorado configuration. Citizen RIMS supports a photo field, but public inmate photos were disabled. |
| Booking Number | Numeric booking identifier, such as the six-digit examples captured in current-roster inspection. |
| Name | Roster name in last, first, middle format when available. |
| Booking Date and Time | Jail booking date and time, formatted in the public interface. |
| Original Arresting Agency | Agency code such as EDSO, CHP, or another local or state agency tied to the arrest. |
| Original Arrest Location | Location string entered for the arrest. |
| Charges | Expanded table with counts, code, description, level, arresting agency, arrest date, arrest location, and per-charge bail. |
| Bail | Total bail in the main row and individual bail amounts in the charge table. |
| Status | Current custody status, with "In Custody" observed in inspected examples. |
| Demographics | DOB, age, sex, race, height, weight, hair, eyes, build, and complexion are supported by the software but hidden in El Dorado's public configuration. |
Are El Dorado County Jail Mugshots Public Record?
California law supports public access to contemporaneous arrest information, but it does not require every county to run a public online mugshot gallery. Government Code section 7923.610 requires state and local law-enforcement agencies to make public arrest information such as the arrestee's name and occupation, physical description, arrest and booking times, arrest location, factual circumstances, bail, release or holding information, and charges, unless disclosure would endanger safety or an investigation. Government Code section 7923.600 preserves exemptions for law-enforcement investigatory and security files.
Key Statutes:
California Government Code § 7923.610 requires public release of specified contemporaneous arrest information unless a safety or investigation concern applies.
California Government Code § 7923.600 preserves exemptions for investigatory and security records, which can limit release of reports or details.
California Penal Code § 851.91 allows eligible people whose arrest did not result in conviction to petition the court to seal arrest and related records.
How to Request a Booking Photo from Sheriff's Records
The Sheriff's Records Unit maintains reports initiated by the Sheriff's Office, booking records made throughout the county, warrants, and restraining orders issued by El Dorado County courts. For a booking photo or booking record that does not appear online, use the Sheriff's Public Records Request form. The Records page says report copies cost $0.25 per page, the office responds within 10 working days, and legal restrictions may prohibit release of some reports. Identification is required before a report is released.
| Request Item | Details to Include |
|---|---|
| Requester information | Name, phone number, mailing address, email, and delivery preference such as email, mail, or pickup. |
| Association to report | Victim, suspect, reporting party, contact, witness, attorney, or other. |
| Record description | Ask specifically for the booking photo or booking record tied to the listed arrest. |
| Incident details | Date of report or incident, address or location, person involved, case or incident number, DOB if known, and additional details. |
| Roster identifiers | Place the booking number in the case or incident number field if appropriate, or in Additional Details if it is only a jail booking number. |
| Signature and ID | Sign the request and provide identification because the form says ID is required before release. |
Submit the form through the channels named by the Sheriff's records materials: in person, by fax, or by mail. The form also lists RecordsPV@eldoradosheriff.gov, phone (530) 621-5703, fax (530) 626-8163, and 200 Industrial Drive, Placerville, CA 95667. The Placerville Records Unit is at 200 Industrial Drive and is listed Monday through Friday, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM, closed county holidays. The South Lake Tahoe Records Unit is at 1360 Johnson Boulevard and is listed Monday through Friday, 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM, closed county holidays.
The Sheriff's Records Unit page is the official route for report-copy rules, booking records, fees, and release limits. The screenshot below is included because mugshot requests, when photos are not online, route through the Sheriff's records process rather than a separate public photo gallery.
How Long a Mugshot Stays on the Roster
Because El Dorado's public Citizen RIMS roster has booking photos disabled, no official online photo-retention window was identified for the roster. The practical question is not how long a public roster mugshot remains visible, but whether the Sheriff's Office may release a booking photo through records after applying California law, identity requirements, and any local restrictions. Current roster entries themselves may change as people are released, transferred, sentenced, or removed from public current-custody view.
What is and isn't public: The public can use the roster for current custody and charge information, but the online profile does not show mugshots or most demographics. A records request may reach more information, but the Sheriff's Office can withhold records when CPRA exemptions, safety issues, investigation concerns, juvenile status, sealing, or other restrictions apply.
Mugshot Removal, Sealing, and Arrest Records
No El Dorado Sheriff's page located a local mugshot-removal policy, and the official roster does not publish public inmate photos in the inspected configuration. For official record relief, the most relevant California route is Penal Code section 851.91, which allows an eligible person whose arrest did not result in conviction to petition the court to seal arrest and related records. A sealing order can restrict public access to eligible arrest records, but it does not automatically control every private copy that may already exist outside the agency.
Use court records to confirm whether a case was dismissed, declined, resolved by acquittal, or otherwise ended without conviction. Use the court process for sealing or dismissal orders rather than trying to treat a booking-photo question as a simple website removal request. The Sheriff's Records Unit and the court clerk are separate offices: the Sheriff handles booking records and reports, while the Superior Court handles filed cases, dispositions, and sealing orders.
Federal, State, BOP, and ICE Booking Photos
A person arrested in El Dorado County may not remain in county jail custody. If the person is sentenced to state prison, search the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation CIRIS locator, which is for CDCR custody and can show name, CDCR number, age, current location, commitment county, admission date, and parole-hearing information. CIRIS is not the same as the El Dorado County jail roster.
Federal and immigration systems have different public records. The Bureau of Prisons inmate locator generally focuses on register number, name, age, race, sex, release date, and location for sentenced federal inmates from 1982 forward. It is not a county-style mugshot gallery. ICE Online Detainee Locator System searches by A-number or biographical information for eligible detainees, and it is not a public mugshot gallery either. If a roster search fails, identify the custody system before assuming an El Dorado booking photo should be online.