Search Asotin County Booking Reports

Asotin County booking reports come from the Asotin County Sheriff's Office and the Asotin County Justice Complex and Jail in Clarkston. The jail is the main hold facility for the City of Asotin and the City of Clarkston. The sheriff's office is the place to start when you need a booking report or want to look up a person held at the jail. The agency keeps a public jail register and takes public records requests for the rest. You can call the office, mail a request, or stop by the front desk during posted hours.

Asotin County Sheriff's Office Records

The Asotin County Sheriff's Office is the agency in charge of booking reports for the county. Sheriff John Hilderbrand leads the office. Undersheriff Jody Brown helps run daily work. The mailing address is P.O. Box 130, Asotin, WA 99402. You can call the main line at 509-243-4717. The fax line is 509-243-4719. Office hours are Monday through Thursday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday hours are 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. The records side of the office handles booking and incident records.

Tammy Leavitt is the Evidence and Records Manager. She is the contact for most public records requests. The dispatch center can be reached at 509-758-2331 or 509-243-4171. The dispatch line is open all hours. For jail-specific calls, the jail direct line is 509-758-1668. The jail sits at 2950 6th Ave in Clarkston, on the east side of the county near the state line. Visit the Asotin County Sheriff Directory for the full staff list.

The directory page is the easiest way to find the right person for a request. Most booking-related calls go to dispatch or to the records manager.

Asotin County Jail Booking Records

The Asotin County Justice Complex and Jail holds adult offenders and pre-trial arrestees. The facility has space for 144 inmates. Staff include one commander, four sergeants, sixteen corrections officers, four control room techs, and one administrative aide. Nate Uhlorn is the Jail Commander. The jail also rents bed space to the Washington Department of Corrections for some probation cases. Medical, mental health, and dental care are provided through outside vendors.

Each booking creates a file in the jail records system. The file holds the inmate name, the date and time of intake, the cause of confinement, and the date and time of release. Per RCW 70.48.100, that part of the file is public. Other items in the booking file are not public by default. Things like medical screens, in-jail discipline, and victim data fall under privacy rules. The sheriff can release those items only with the inmate's written consent or a judge's order.

The jail also runs work crews for community projects. Inmates with the right risk level help with the Asotin County Landfill, the courthouse grounds, the Fair Board, litter control, and weed control. None of that work shows up on a booking report, but it is part of how the jail runs day to day. For the full description of jail programs, see the Asotin County Jail page.

The jail page is the official source for facility data. It also has phone lines for visits, mail rules, and a list of jail programs.

How to Get Asotin County Booking Reports

To get a booking report, send a written request to the Asotin County Sheriff's Office. Include the person's full name, the date of birth if you know it, and the date of the arrest if you have it. The records staff will pull the file. Some items will be open. Some items will be redacted. The office must respond within five business days under RCW 42.56, the Washington Public Records Act. The first response may be the records, an estimate, or a clarification request.

You can mail your request to P.O. Box 130, Asotin, WA 99402. You can also call 509-243-4717 to ask about the request process. Fees apply for paper copies. State law caps copy fees, and the office may charge a flat per-page rate. There is no fee to inspect records in person. If you only need to confirm that a person is in jail right now, dispatch can often answer that on the phone.

Note: Confidential parts of a booking file can be released to the inmate, to a person with the inmate's written permission, or by court order from a judge.

Court Records Tied to Asotin County Bookings

Each charge listed on a booking report has a matching court case. Asotin County Superior Court hears felony cases. Asotin County District Court hears most misdemeanor cases. Both courts file cases with their own clerks. The Washington Courts public case search at courts.wa.gov covers Superior Court files for the county. You can search by name, by case number, or by case type. The system shows the docket, the next hearing, and the case status.

For state-level criminal history, the Washington State Patrol runs the WATCH system at watch.wsp.wa.gov. WATCH is a fee-based name search. It shows conviction data from courts across the state. It does not show people held in local jails right now. For people in state prison, use the Washington DOC Offender Search.

Privacy Rules for Asotin County Booking Files

State law sets the line on what jail data is open and what is sealed. The jail register is public under RCW 70.48.100. The register lists names, the cause of the hold, and the time of intake and release. Booking photos are exempt from public release in most cases under RCW 10.97, the Criminal Records Privacy Act. The exemption has narrow exceptions, like an active investigation or a sex offender notice.

Medical files, mental health screens, and victim contact data are sealed. The sheriff cannot release those items to the public. The same is true for in-jail discipline files and any data that ties to a confidential informant. The sheriff's records team will redact those items from any booking report sent in response to a public records request. The rest of the report goes out under the standard rules.

Local and State Resources

Asotin County is a small rural county on the east side of Washington. It shares a border with Idaho. The county has two cities: Asotin and Clarkston. Most of the jail bookings come from those two cities and from the unincorporated areas around them. The state-level tools at courts.wa.gov, watch.wsp.wa.gov, and doc.wa.gov add to the local sheriff's data. Together, they cover most of what a person needs when looking up a booking record in this part of the state.

For records held by the city police, you can also contact the Clarkston Police Department or the Asotin Police Department. Each city agency keeps its own incident records. Once a person is booked into the county jail, the jail file moves to the sheriff's records side. The county is the source for anything past the booking step.