The SL County jail – located at 3415 South 900 West in Salt Lake City, Utah - has various visitation schedules depending upon where your loved one is currently housed.  There are a number of different rules that you must adhere to when attempting to schedule a visit as well as when you arrive for your visit. The following list of nine items constitute the bulk of the visitation rules:

• You must arrive at least 45 minutes prior to the start of your visit. If visiting at Oxbow, you must arrive at least 15 minutes prior to your visit. Visitors are responsible to remember the date and time they are pre-scheduled.
• Prisoner workers (kitchen, server, etc.) will not be allowed visits during their scheduled work hours. The prisoner is responsible for notifying visitors of housing location changes and/or work assignments.
• Prisoners are permitted two (2) visits per week and three visitors will be allowed to visit a prisoner. (At Oxbow, due to space limitations, only two visitors are permitted per visit). Children 17 years and under must be accompanied by their parent or legal guardian. An adult must accompany a child wanting to visit their parent or legal guardian.
• Every visitor 16 years of age or older must have a government issued ID (Drivers License or State ID), Driving privilege cards and school ID’s are not acceptable forms of identification.
• No visiting is permitted during meal times beginning at 11:00 AM through 12:30 PM and from 4:00 PM through 5:30 PM.
• Visits may be pre-scheduled up to seven days in advance by calling 743-5000 or you may pre-schedule a visit in person at the Visiting counter.
• Visiting reservations must be made no later than 11:00 PM the day prior to the day of the visiting reservation. No same day telephone reservations will be scheduled.
• Cancellations and/or changes to existing visiting reservations must be made no later than one hour prior to the scheduled visit.
• Requests to visit outside of normal visiting hours and/or days will be handled on a case-by-case basis.
• There will be times when a prisoner is unavailable or refuses a visit. Visits also on occasion may be delayed or cancelled due to operational incidents in the jail.

Are you in Utah? Have you looked around and seen a thousand sites about how to become a “bounty hunter”?  Are you turned off?  Yeah me too!!

Some basic knowledge to get you started, here in Utah, the legal terms are Bail Enforcement Agent, Bail Recovery Agent and Bail Recovery Apprentice, each of these are different and thus have differing specific requirements. 

In order to get your license there are four main things, in addition to the specifics mentioned above, you will need to consider:

• First, are you 21 years old and a legal citizen or legal resident of these United States of America?
• Second, can you pass a background check? Yes? Good! No? Can you get your record expunged? If so, do so first.
• Third, you will be required to complete a Bail Enforcement Training course.  The class is typically conducted over a two day period – eight hours each day. (See below for additional information)
• Fourth, you will need to find a Bail Enforcement Agent willing to sponsor you during your time as a Bail Recovery Apprentice.

Bail Enforcement Training

Here in Utah there are only five authorized organizations that offer the Bail Enforcement Training – Click Here to See the List – (Note, in the interest of full disclosure, I am the owner of one of the five companies – Fox Force LLC! Apologies for the shameless plug). Anyhow, these classes are generally held once every three months, not very often I know, and this is the reason:

Once you have completed the Bail Enforcement Training course, you will submit your certificate of completion along with your application to the Utah Bureau of Criminal Identification for consideration at the next board meeting (yes there is a board) and this board meets once every 3 months. Therefore, the classes are typically offered to coincide with the board meetings. 

If you make it through your first two years on the job and you want to continue (I say IF because most people don’t) then it is time to renew or upgrade your license and you will need to get a $10,000.00 surety bond. This is fairly easy to get, and the cost depends entirely on your credit standing.  I have seen them go for as little as $100.00 and as much as $1,800.00.

I hope this has helped you in your search for answers. If you have any additional questions please don’t hesitate to contact Fox Force LLC at 801.332.9111 or send me an email to BountyHuntGal@yahoo.com

Reata Holt

Stay safe! Play well!

• If you are bailing them out yourself make sure you have the exact amount in cash!  While debit and credit cards are accepted as forms of payment, you will be assessed an excessively high fee when used as payment.   So again, make sure you have cash and exact change if you are forgoing a bail bond company.

• If you are using a bail bond company then it will be a lot different. While each Bail Agent is required to follow the guidelines set by the jail each Bail Agent differs slightly when dealing with the cosigners and defendant.

Bad Boys Bail Bonds Agent – Katie Keller talks to the cosigner to ensure that the cosigner understands what he or she is liable for prior to proceeding with the bail process.  After Katie believes the cosigner understands their obligations she will then proceed with the paperwork.  Once the cosigner is done filling out the paperwork, Katie will then notify the jail that she is there and then proceed to meet with the defendant and have them fill out the same paperwork.  After she provides the jail her bond she waits with the cosigner for the defendant; once again helping them understand what lies ahead and to answer any questions they may have.

On average you can expect to wait around 60 to 90 minutes to complete the bail process and be released from the Cache County Jail.  This of course is an average and therefore at times it may be much quicker and some times it is much longer; it all depends on how many people are being held at the time.

Also, an important item to note is that the Cache County jail administers breathalyzer tests to anyone who plans on driving home any defendant that was drunk when they were arrested.  After passing the jail will have the person transporting the defendant sign a waver stating they understand that they are responsible for the defendant for the next 12 hours.

That is just about what you can expect when trying to bail your loved one out of jail in Cache County Utah. We hope this information has been useful, if we have missed anything or you would like to comment please fill out the form below. Additionally, we are willing to answer any questions you may have, click here for more information on how to get in contact with Bad Boys Bail Bonds Utah regarding anything related to the Cache County Jail.

Hopefully you will never find yourself in this tough spot; but if you do please don’t hesitate to call us to help you or your loved one get out of this unfortunate situation.

Utah DUI checkpoints can now be downloaded via multiple applications that offer map alerts, and an opportunity for people to report speed traps to other motorists. One application named “Fuzz Alert” has caused concern among some Democrat lawmakers, including Sen. Charles Schumer of New York and Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada. These top politicians are asking Apple, Research in Motion, which make the iPhone and Blackberry smartphones as well as Google to ban the sales of these apps.

The CEO of “Fuzz Alert” has actually seen in an increase in sales since the lawmakers have spoken out against such technology. Some Utah police agencies are not concerned, “It actually helps us do what we want to do.” said South Salt Lake police officer Gary Keller. “We want to deter DUI’s. We want people to know that, yeah, we are out there looking for them.”

Sgt. Ted Tingey of the Utah Highway Safety Office agrees in that he advertises its DUI enforcement in hopes of keeping drunk drivers off the road. He has noticed that when they put up DUI checkpoints many club and bar owners provide courtesy ride homes for patron on these particular nights.

Most people including the officers tend to think that a true drunk driver will not get into his vehicle flip on his app and search for local law enforcement checkpoints. Keller stated, “When people become intoxicated, the first thing that goes out the window is judgment, so a lot of times they may know about the DUI checkpoints. They may have these apps on their phone but they ignore them because of the lack of judgment.”

If you get a DUI, contact Steve DuBreuil at http://www.dubreuillawoffice.com, do not let this situation be worse than it already is, get representation.
 
Regardless, there is nothing wrong with having these apps; unless the laws change and make it illegal to do so.

http://www.duiblock.com/dui_checkpoint_locations/utah/

Now the Department of Insurance is once again attempting to negatively impact the free market system by eliminating financing of bail bonds.  This hurts the consumers, the bail bond companies and the tax payers of the state of Utah.  Here are just a few ways eliminating financing on bail bonds hurts the state of Utah.

• Without the ability to post bail suspects will be incarcerated until they see a judge.  This means they will lose their ability to make money at their jobs. This will lead to them being laid off or fired.  Then we have an individual who otherwise could have maintained employment – unemployed and likely unemployable for the foreseeable future.
• While they are incarcerated they need to eat and have shelter provided – this of course is paid for by tax revenue.
• When jails become over crowded individuals are released to tax funded programs like PTS or Over Crowd Releasing.
• When individuals fail to appear in court there is no bail company being held accountable and thus no bounty hunter to track down the criminal.  It then becomes the responsibility of warrant officers or local police agencies to locate these criminals, thus resources are now dedicated to chasing known criminals as opposed to preventing and investigating new crime.

With the next legislative session right around the corner we ask that you closely examine the proposed change that would eliminate financing of bail bonds. Once you have done this then speak with your state legislators in the House of Representatives and Senate to determine if you also believe, like we do here at Bad Boys Bail Bonds, that the proposed changes are in fact bad for the state of Utah. 

Once you have examined the language and made your determination please let us know if you too believe that the proposed change to Rule 590-164 is unnecessary and in fact bad for the State of Utah.

Every jail in the State of Utah is a little different in how they do their procedures and how they process bonds. The Salt Lake County jail, better known as the Adult Detention Center or ADC, is located at 3415 S 900 W in West Valley Utah the number to the jail is 801-743-5000. The SL County ADC has an inmate lookup tool which is updated daily.

The SL County ADC is the main jail located in the Salt Lake valley and houses the majority of the inmates for the cities located in the county. The ADC is unique in how they handle processing compared to other county detention facilities within the State of Utah; this article is intended to help answer questions and set the expectation for bailing an individual out of the SL County ADC.

Posting Bail: Bailing an individual out of jail can take anywhere between three to eight hours depending upon any number of factors. The following steps are how the bail process typically works for the SL County ADC:

1. The bail bondsman is contacted by an individual representing the inmate or possibly the inmate themselves
2. The bail bondsman arranges all the necessary paperwork, references, credit checks, etc. Estimated Wait: less than 30 minutes
3. The bail bondsman faxes the bond to the Jail, care of the Court Liaison. By this time the inmate has been through the booking process, as well as pre-trial services and is now waiting in the Second Pit for the administrative process to be completed (see below for more info) Estimated Wait: anywhere between two to four hours
4. About 10 minutes before you are released you will be allowed a phone call to arrange transportation
   

These are the four main phases of the SL County ADC booking process. The first three phases outlined below typically happen prior to Step 1. mentioned above.

• Booking Room – estimate 30 minutes
• First Pit – estimate 60 minutes
• Pre-Trial Services – estimate 20 to 30 minutes
• Second Pit – time varies, prepare to wait anywhere from two to four hours
• Note: If you are arrested on a new charge, and it is a felony, you will get an automatic No Bail, for 24-48 hours.

Booking Room: This is where the suspect waits until the arresting officer has finished all the legally required paperwork. The suspect is handcuffed to a rail along the side of cement benches. Typically an individual will spend no more than 30 to 60 minutes in the booking room; some of the issues that can speed up or prolong the process are uncooperative and or intoxicated inmates, the number of inmates being processed, etc.

First Pit: The suspect is then taken into the “first pit”, which consists of six feet high cement walls with no ceiling. Above the walls is a catwalk, this is how the guards can view the inmates while they wait. Inside the pit there is a payphone which can be used to notify family and friends, a single toilet, and another cement bench for the inmates to sit on while they wait. The booking officers will continue the process within an hour or so at which time the suspect will be fingerprinted, have their pictures taken, and booking information entered into the system; i.e. identification and contact information, references, etc. One can expect to wait around 60 minutes in the first pit.

Pre-Trial Services: Once the booking process has been completed, the suspect will be taken in front of Pre-trial services (they are open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year). Pre-trial conducts an interview at the end of which they decide if bail is required or if an individual can be released on their own recognizance. If bail is required the inmate is taken to the “second pit”.

Second Pit: The second pit is the place where the inmate can make calls to family and loved ones to try to make bail, assuming they were not released during the pre-trial phase. On the wall in the pit is a list of all the Utah Bail Bond companies with their phone numbers. The process in the ADC for booking usually takes between 2-4 hours, depending on how busy they are at the time. If the inmate is posting bond, they will allow he or she to stay in the pit area rather than dressing them out and putting them into a cell.

We hope this information has been useful, if we have missed anything or you would like to comment please fill out the form below. Additionally, we are willing to answer any questions you may have, click here for more information on how to get in contact with Bad Boys Bail Bonds Utah regarding anything related to the Salt Lake County Jail.

Hopefully you will never find yourself in this tough spot; but if you do please don’t hesitate to call us to help you or your loved one get out of this unfortunate situation.

Thanks,

Larry Nowak and Richard Rose

THANK YOU

LARRY AND THE BAD BOYS TEAM