Clark County 72 Hour Booking
Clark County 72 hour booking records cover every person held at the main jail in Vancouver during the past three days. The Clark County Sheriff's Office runs the corrections branch and posts a live online jail roster you can search any time. With a county population near 503,000, Clark is one of the busiest jails in southwest Washington. This page shows you how to search Clark County 72 hour booking records on the Sheriff's site, what fields the roster shows, how to file a public records request, and where to find related court info.
Clark County Jail Quick Stats
Clark County Jail Roster Online
The Clark County Sheriff posts a public jail roster that lists every person currently in custody. You click an inmate name on the roster to open a detail page with charges, booking date, and bond data. The page works on a phone or a desktop browser. The roster is updated through the day, which makes it the fastest way to find a recent booking.
The roster lives at Clark County Jail Roster and is the main public window into who is held at the main jail or the Jail Work Center.
The Sheriff's main page lists corrections contacts, the records request form, and links to inmate services. You can find phone numbers for visitation, commissary, and property pickup all in one spot. The Vancouver location at 707 W. 13th Street is the central booking site for the county.
The Sheriff page at clark.wa.gov/sheriff is the central hub for booking and jail records info, and it links straight to the live roster.
Main Jail and Jail Work Center
The Clark County main jail has 714 beds. It is an indirect supervision facility and serves as the intake site for every Clark County arrest. The facility houses pre-trial inmates and locally sentenced people at medium and maximum security levels. Custody levels run from minimum to maximum, with classification done at intake. The Jail Work Center on NW Lower River Road in Vancouver houses minimum security inmates and runs the work release program. Both sites fall under the Sheriff's corrections branch.
Visitation is video only. There are no in-person visits. Onsite video visits are free, and remote video visits use a third-party paid service. Visit times rotate by housing pod across Saturday and Sunday. The jail has commissary, phone service through Securus, video visits, medical and mental health care, religious services, and substance abuse treatment. None of those services change what shows on the public booking roster, but they do give you a sense of how the jail runs.
Note: Click an inmate name on the roster for the detail view, since the main list only shows the basics, while the detail page lists each charge and bond amount.
Clark County Sheriff Contacts
The Corrections Branch is at 707 W. 13th Street, Vancouver, WA 98660. The phone is 360-397-2211 and the fax is 360-397-6043. The Sheriff's Office handles records requests under RCW 42.56, the state Public Records Act. You can send a request to the records division and expect a five business day reply. Add the inmate name, the booking date, and a clear list of records.
For general county info on departments, courts, and forms, the Clark County website is the central hub.
The county site links to the Sheriff, Superior Court, District Court, and Clerk pages, which speeds up any records search.
Public Access to Booking Data
Jail booking data is open under RCW 70.48.100. That law lists the basic facts a jail must release on demand: name, charges, booking date and time, the bond, and the holding facility. Some details are pulled before release. Victim contact info is shielded by RCW 4.24.550. Nonconviction data has separate rules under RCW 10.97.
Sheriff fingerprint and identification data may be subject to other handling rules under RCW 36.28A.040. The county Sheriff is the records custodian for jail data and can answer questions about what is and is not part of a public booking sheet.
Court and Statewide Tools
For court records tied to a Clark County booking, the Washington Courts public site lets you search by name. The Odyssey Portal hosts case files for many Washington courts. The Find My Court Date tool shows scheduled hearings statewide. Use those alongside the jail roster for the full picture.
For statewide booking, the Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs runs JBRS. The WASPC main site hosts JBRS and other tools. State criminal history sits at the Washington State Patrol. Prison data is at the DOC inmate search. State warrants live at the DOC warrant search. Federal court files use PACER, which covers the Western District of Washington for Clark County. The MRSC guide at MRSC walks through the records request rules.
Tip: Send money to inmates online through Access Corrections, by kiosk in the jail lobby, or by money order in the mail, since cash is not accepted at the front desk.
What a Clark County Booking Record Shows
A Clark County 72 hour booking sheet lists the inmate's full legal name, the booking number, the booking date and time, and each charge. It shows the bond set for each charge, the arresting agency, and the holding facility. Many records include a booking photo. The detail page on the Sheriff's online roster mirrors what appears on the printed sheet for the same person, so the online tool often gives you what you need without a formal records request.
Most arrests in the county come from the Sheriff, the Vancouver Police Department, the Camas Police Department, the Battle Ground Police Department, and the Washington State Patrol. Each agency books arrestees into the main jail in downtown Vancouver. The booking sheet always names the arresting agency, which helps you find the right department for any incident report request. Incident reports live with the agency that wrote them, not with the Sheriff in most cases.
People in alternative custody programs like work release at the Jail Work Center may not show on the main roster the same way as people in the main jail. Always call corrections at 360-397-2211 if you cannot find a person you expect to be in custody. Names sometimes get logged with a different spelling, an alias, or a middle name first, so a phone call helps you confirm what the public list shows.
Clark County is also part of the Western District of Washington for federal cases. Federal arrests by the FBI, U.S. Marshals, or Border Patrol may not show on the county jail roster, since those people often go to a federal holding site. The PACER system is the place to look for federal court files in those cases.
Note: Federal arrests by federal officers may not appear on the county jail roster, since custody can transfer to a federal site soon after booking.