Releases from Lassen County Adult Detention Facility
Lassen County Adult Detention Facility, often called the Lassen County Jail, is the local custody facility for county bookings in Susanville. The sheriff's official jail page identifies it as a Type II facility that houses pretrial and sentenced inmates. That matters for release research because the person may leave the jail after bail, own-recognizance release, citation release, a court order, time served, sentence completion, probation-related action, PRCS action, transfer, or another agency hold. A jail release is not the same record as a CDCR prison discharge from High Desert State Prison or a federal BOP release from FCI Herlong.
The first place to check is the Lassen CitizenRIMS Incarcerated People page. Research found that CitizenRIMS is a current in-custody and recent-bookings source for the Lassen County Jail, not a separately labeled 24-hour or 72-hour released-inmate list. If the person still appears with an in-custody status, the jail has not publicly shown a completed local release. If the person no longer appears, that absence is only a clue. It can mean release, transfer, a timing gap, a non-public status, or a move into another custody system.
Lassen is unusually easy to misread because many custody systems sit in or around the county. A person booked into the county jail may have been arrested by the Sheriff's Office, California Highway Patrol, Susanville Police, Lassen County Probation, CDCR, Cal Fire, Herlong Security, FBI, or another agency with arrest authority. That agency mix means the release route may point to a local court case, a state-prison handoff, a federal process, a probation violation, or a simple local release. Always read the booking or arresting agency before assuming the person walked out into the community.
How to Confirm a Jail Release
Use a short verification chain rather than relying on one public roster screen. CitizenRIMS can help you identify the booking while the person is still current or recent, but the durable proof comes from the jail, court, or sheriff records process.
- Search the Lassen CitizenRIMS jail page for the person by name if the interface provides search controls, or browse recent booking entries by date.
- If the person is listed as in custody, treat that as current jail custody only. It is not a release record.
- If the person is missing, check the CitizenRIMS Arrests page for the arrest event, date, agency, and charge context. The arrest page is not proof of release, but it can identify the case.
- Search the Lassen Superior Court Case Index & Calendar Portal for the criminal case. Court records may show bail, own-recognizance release, arraignment, disposition, sentence, probation orders, and later dismissal entries.
- Call the Adult Detention Facility at 530-251-5245 when the release date, current status, transfer destination, or release manner is needed.
- Use California VINE at vinelink.vineapps.com/state/CA for custody-change notifications if the person and facility are participating.
- For an older or official release record, ask the Sheriff's Office for the booking and time-and-manner-of-release information under the California Public Records Act and Government Code section 7923.610.
California law makes the time and manner of release a key public arrest-information field, subject to safety and investigation limits. A practical request should identify the person's name, approximate booking date, date of birth if known, arresting agency if known, and the specific record needed: booking number, booking date and time, charges, bail if public, release date and time, release manner, and whether the person was transferred to another agency.
Lassen County Jail Records and Contact
The official local contact path is the Lassen County Sheriff's Office and the Adult Detention Facility. The county jail source lists the facility on the sheriff campus at Sheriff Cady Lane in Susanville, and the sheriff contact page provides the jail phone and main sheriff phone. Because the research did not confirm a dedicated online sheriff records-request form for jail releases, the safest route is to call first and ask for the current procedure for a booking, release, or booking-photo request.
Contact Card
Lassen County Sheriff's Office
1415 Sheriff Cady Lane
Susanville, CA 96130
Main phone: 530-251-8013
Adult Detention Facility: 530-251-5245
Dispatch: 530-257-6121
For court records tied to the same jail stay, use the Lassen Superior Court records process at the Hall of Justice, 2610 Riverside Drive, Susanville, CA 96130. The court's online portal covers non-confidential, non-sealed cases filed after 1994 and is reference-only, while official copies come through the clerk. The court copy page lists 50 cents per page, possible search fees for non-party searches over 10 minutes, up to 10 court days for many in-person copy requests, and several weeks for mailed requests.
About the Lassen County Jail
The Adult Detention Facility is a county jail, not a prison. It receives people arrested or sentenced for state crimes occurring in Lassen County and holds both pretrial and sentenced inmates. The sheriff's jail page gives three useful scale markers: rated capacity of 156, about 1,400 bookings per year, and an average daily population around 120. Those numbers explain why local turnover exists even though Lassen does not publish a verified rolling release list.
| Facility fact | What it means for release research |
|---|---|
| Type II local detention facility | Handles pretrial and sentenced county jail custody, including people awaiting court action. |
| Rated capacity 156 | The public roster reflects a relatively small jail, but turnover can still be steady. |
| About 1,400 bookings per year | Recent bookings may move quickly from intake to release, transfer, or court outcome. |
| Average daily population about 120 | A missing roster entry should be confirmed before being treated as a community release. |
What the Jail Record May Show
CitizenRIMS and sheriff records can contain different levels of detail. The public schema observed during research included booking number, booking agency, original arresting agency, booking date and time, original arrest date and time, arrest location, released boolean, status, age, sex, race, height, weight, hair, eyes, complexion, scars or tattoos where enabled, charges, bail, and total bail. Photos are disabled in the Lassen CitizenRIMS inmate configuration, so the public web portal should not be treated as a booking-photo source.
The release portion is the part many people need after a person leaves the roster. It may show release date and time, release manner, transfer destination, bail or bond, court order, sentence completion, or a hold resolution. If the public portal does not show that release event, the jail and sheriff records request are the direct path. If the release followed an arraignment, bail decision, sentence, probation grant, or dismissal, the court file may explain the outcome better than the jail entry alone.
When the Jail Is the Wrong Search
Do not use the Lassen County Jail page to verify a CDCR prison release from High Desert State Prison or the deactivated California Correctional Center. Those are state records and belong in CIRIS, CDCR public records, DAPO parole records, and BPH material when parole hearings apply. Do not use the jail roster for a federal BOP release from FCI Herlong either. Federal releases are checked through the BOP Inmate Locator, and a BOP result may show Released or Not in BOP Custody even when another agency or supervision system still matters.
The county jail becomes relevant to those other systems only if the person was separately booked in the local jail. That can happen through a local arrest, warrant, hold, court transport, probation violation, or agency handoff. In that case, confirm each custody event in its own system: the local jail for the local booking, the court for the case outcome, CDCR for state prison, BOP for federal prison, ICE ODLS for immigration detention, and probation or parole for post-release supervision.