Find Washington County Inmates

Washington County Jail Roster

The Washington County Sheriff's Office operates the county's only jail. The Jail Division houses adults awaiting trial and adults serving a sentence of less than 365 days. Jail staff work around the clock to maintain custody, safety, visiting, programs, records, and release functions. The jail is tied to the Sheriff's Office headquarters at 215 SW Adams Ave, Hillsboro, OR 97123, and the 24-hour jail phone number is 503-846-2600.

The public roster is the county's Who is in Custody? application. It is generally updated every two hours and requires a reCAPTCHA check before use. The roster is built for current county custody, not for every arrest record, old jail register, state-prison sentence, or federal hold. For people who were booked and released during the last day, the separate 24-hour arrest and release log may be the better first stop.

The Sheriff's Office homepage is the starting point for county jail and custody resources.

Source image: Washington County Sheriff's Office homepage.

Use Washington County Inmate Search

The custody search is alphabet based. After passing the reCAPTCHA prompt, users search by selecting the first letter of the person's last name. The county page also links to VISOR, Oregon's victim notification resource, and explains that the security amount shown in custody records means bail that must be paid. If the roster does not load, the jail phone and email listed on the custody page can be used for routing questions.

1. Open the Washington County Who is in Custody? portal.
2. Complete the reCAPTCHA challenge before trying to view results.
3. Select the first letter of the adult in custody's last name.
4. Review matching custody entries for name, charges, security amount, and status information shown by the portal.
5. Use VISOR registration when custody-change or criminal-case alerts are needed.

For recent jail movement, use the 24-hour arrest and release log. That tool also requires reCAPTCHA and offers an Arrest, Release, or All filter. It is useful when a person was booked and released before a roster search was checked.

Washington County Custody Fields

The research captured the public fields visible before a roster result is opened. Because the application is reCAPTCHA gated, a full live sample inmate profile was not captured. The search table below reflects the official public interface and the related 24-hour jail log fields.

Washington County Inmate Details

The current roster publicly confirms adults in custody, charges, and the security or bail amount. The Secretary of State inventory lists older jail-register fields such as booking identifiers, physical descriptions, arrest date, arresting officer, court, sentence, bail, and release date, but those historic fields should not be treated as current online roster fields unless they appear in the live portal.

For formal charges, pleas, disposition, and sentencing, use the related Circuit Court case file rather than the jail roster. Booking information and the full court record answer different questions.

Washington County Jail Facility

Washington County uses one county jail in Hillsboro. The jail is part of the Sheriff's Office and serves adults awaiting trial plus adults serving short county sentences. The Sheriff's Office background page also identifies countywide service responsibilities and the agency's public safety role across incorporated and unincorporated areas.

The Sheriff's Office about page provides agency context for the jail and county services.

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Washington County Booking Records

Booking begins after arrest or surrender. The jail inventories personal property, opens a jail account, and assigns custody rules. Cash found at arrest is deposited into the adult in custody's account. The county explains that each adult in custody has one property bin about the size of a recycle bin. Weapons, hazardous materials, illegal items, alcohol, food, and drinks are not held as normal property, and some items may be destroyed or stored by the arresting agency.

Property and account rules are part of custody information, not the court docket. Jail custody records may show current charges and bail, but the court file shows the formal case path. For court charges after arrest, the jail roster should be read together with the Circuit Court or Justice Court record.

The county custody information page gives booking, account, property, and deposit details.

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Washington County Inmate Visits

Adults in custody receive an orientation and manual with rules for mail, phone calls, and visits. The jail offers social visiting and video visiting during the same daily windows. Use of phones, messaging, and visits is at the adult in custody's discretion. For urgent self-harm concerns, friends or family should notify a deputy or jail staff member at 503-846-6374.

The jail visit page is the official route for social visits, video visits, mail, and phone information.

Source image: Washington County jail contact and visit page.

Washington County Inmate Contact

Mail rules are handled through Washington County jail mail directions, Viapath instructions, and the AIC mail guide referenced by the county. The county notes that the guides explain how to address envelopes, which items are allowed or banned, and how to send money. Because the mail PDFs were not extracted in the research, use the official jail page for the current list before mailing books, photos, papers, or other items.

Video visits and messaging use Viapath / GettingOut. To validate an account, users must provide full name, email address, date of birth, street address with city, state, and ZIP, the last four digits of Social Security number, a profile image, and photos of the front and back of valid ID. Accounts missing required information may be terminated. The person who schedules the video visit, whether the adult in custody or the visitor, is charged.

Professional visits, social visits, video visits, mail, and phone services all use jail rules rather than court rules. That distinction matters when a Washington County inmate record is being used to contact someone after arrest. The jail roster can show that a person is in custody, but it does not authorize a visit, approve a mail item, or set up a phone account. Those steps have to follow the current Sheriff's Office and vendor instructions. Staff also monitor video visits for rule compliance, and the county says adults in custody may have an unlimited number of video visits each week during video visiting hours.

The jail overview page links the custody, visit, bail, and service categories used by families and attorneys.

Source image: Washington County Jail Division overview.

Washington County Jail Money

Every adult booked into the jail has a jail account. Account funds may be used to post bail, pay fees, or buy commissary items such as hygiene supplies, writing materials, and snacks. Commissary orders are delivered weekly. Orders must be completed by 7:00 a.m. Tuesday for Friday delivery, and deposits should be made by Sunday evening to be available for that week's order. If an account has a negative balance, up to 60 percent of deposits can be applied to debt.

Washington County Jail Records

Some jail-related information is not shown in the public roster. The Sheriff's Criminal Records Section can process public-records requests, and the research notes that the section is open 24 hours a day, every day. Each report is reviewed before release. Active investigations, juvenile information, medical information, security-sensitive records, and records from another police agency may be limited or routed elsewhere.

County custody also differs from state prison custody. Sentenced Oregon state-prison custody should be routed to Oregon Department of Corrections channels or VISOR rather than the county jail roster. Police reports should be requested from the agency that created the report. When a jail record leads to a court case, the full case file belongs in the Washington County criminal court records system, not the roster alone.

The 24-hour jail log is a separate public tool for recent arrests and releases. It is useful when a person was just booked, released quickly, or no longer appears on the current custody roster. The log's Arrest and Release filter can narrow the event type, but it still has a reCAPTCHA gate and should be read as a recent jail activity record. For older jail-register research, the Oregon Secretary of State inventory points to historic Washington County jail registers and archived county records rather than the current custody site.