Where Jail Releases Go
Tehama County Jail is the county's adult jail at 502 Oak Street in Red Bluff. The Sheriff's Custody Division describes it as the main jail for both sentenced and pre-sentenced inmates, with a 227-person capacity. A person can leave this facility in several different ways: pretrial bond, a court-ordered release, a citation release before longer custody, the end of a local sentence, transfer to another county on a warrant, transfer to CDCR after sentencing, release to probation or parole reporting, or transfer to immigration authorities when California law allows it.
The public online route is the Tehama Sheriff's Current Inmates page and the linked current listing at inmates.tehamaso.org. That listing is not labeled as a 24-hour or 72-hour release feed. If a person disappears from the current-custody list, that may support a release, but it can also mean transfer, a spelling issue, a data delay, or another agency taking custody. Use the broader Tehama County released inmate search path on the home page when the release type is unclear.
The strongest Tehama answer is usually a chain of records rather than one public page. The jail record can show the booking and custody event; the court case can explain the release authority; VINE can provide a custody-status alert; probation or parole can explain reporting after release; and CDCR or another county can explain a transfer. That split is especially important in Tehama because the county also contains CDCR conservation camps. A person leaving the Red Bluff jail after sentencing to state prison is not the same as a person released from Salt Creek or Ishi.
Confirm a Tehama Jail Release
Use the current roster first for a still-in-custody signal. If the person appears, review the name, book date, charges, bail, and any scheduled release date field or linked detail page. If the person does not appear, confirm what happened through a second source before relying on the absence.
- Check the Sheriff's current-inmates page and search name variants.
- Review Tehama Superior Court criminal records for release orders, bail, sentence completion, probation terms, dismissal, warrant status, or future hearings.
- Use California VINE at vinelink.vineapps.com/state/CA for custody-status changes and notifications.
- Contact the Sheriff's Records Division for a booking or release record if the exact release date, reason, booking number, or transfer destination matters.
- If the facts point to state prison, check CDCR CIRIS instead of the county roster.
Tehama Superior Court is a particularly useful second source because a court case can outlast the jail stay. The Criminal Division conducts hearings in Red Bluff at 1740 Walnut Street, and court records can explain whether the release came from bail, dismissal, sentence completion, custody credits, probation, a warrant issue, or a later CDCR transfer. If the roster no longer lists the person but the court still shows a pending hearing or a recent order, read the court event together with the jail release record rather than assuming the person is fully clear of the case.
VINE should be treated as a notification and custody-status tool, not a complete booking archive. It can help when the issue is whether custody changed, and it can be useful for alerts when a person moves between county custody and CDCR. For exact release paperwork, however, return to the Sheriff's Records Division, the court file, or the receiving agency. That is the safest way to distinguish a community release from a transfer, parole pickup, PRCS routing, or another agency hold.
Tehama County Jail Contact
The jail phone listed by the Sheriff's Office is 530-529-7910, and the main Sheriff's number is 530-529-7900. For release records, the more formal route is the Sheriff's Records Division, which maintains booking logs, calls for service, investigations, contacts, and transactions. Records requests are processed through the division at 22840 Antelope Boulevard, Red Bluff, CA 96080, during public hours of Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
When requesting a release record, identify the person, date of birth if known, and the approximate booking or arrest date. Ask for releasable fields such as booking number, booking date and time, release date and time, release type or reason, charges listed at release, bail or bond disposition, transfer destination if any, and any releasable booking photograph. Records applications may be emailed to records@tehamaso.org, and the Records Division phone is 530-529-7940.
Keep the request narrow and records-based. Tehama research identifies release paperwork, release logs, unit sheets, daily census logs, account and property records, and release authorization documents as the kinds of jail materials that may support a release confirmation. The Records Division may redact or withhold material when California law requires it, especially if a record is investigatory, sealed, juvenile, victim-sensitive, medical, or otherwise exempt. If part of a record is withheld, ask for all reasonably segregable nonexempt information and for the exemption being applied.
About the Red Bluff Jail
The official facility name is Tehama County Jail. The address is 502 Oak Street, at Oak and Madison in Red Bluff, California. Mail for inmates is listed in the research as PO Box 490, Red Bluff, CA 96080. The operating agency is the Tehama County Sheriff's Office, Custody Division.
| Facility fact | Local detail |
|---|---|
| Facility type | County adult jail / Type II local detention |
| Population described | Sentenced and pre-sentenced inmates |
| Capacity | 227 inmates |
| Construction history | Built in 1974, with additions completed in 1994 |
Release Timing and Checks
Tehama's custody manual gives useful local context for why a scheduled release date is not always the same as the exact walk-out moment. End-of-term and court-ordered releases are scheduled at staggered times on the release date to avoid congestion. Staff escort a scheduled release to the transfer/release area 30 minutes before the scheduled release time, and the manual says people are not released or moved during count, shift change, or when movement would create a safety threat or disrupt operations.
Before release, staff verify identity against intake records, confirm release-authorizing paperwork, review good-time calculations and release-date adjustments, check warrants or detention orders, address property and account records, and handle supervision-reporting instructions when needed. Those steps explain why a current roster entry, court order, VINE notice, and Records Division response may not update at the same moment.
The same release checks also explain why a scheduled date can move. The custody manual requires staff to review good-time calculations and release-date adjustments before release, and county jail credits are governed by local-custody rules rather than CDCR's state-prison date labels. A new warrant, unresolved paperwork, another agency pickup, safety issue, shift-change timing, count, medical planning, or court order can change the practical release time. For family or case tracking, the jail phone can answer immediate logistics, while Records or the court can document the later record.
Property, Supervision, and Transfers
The custody manual also documents release details that matter after the person leaves the booking system. Personal property is returned during release with a signed receipt, and inmate account balances are handled through scheduled-release accounting. If a person needs to report after release, the next office may be Tehama County Probation, CDCR parole, or another agency depending on the case.
For immigration-related transfers, Tehama's manual says staff may not transfer someone to immigration authorities unless defined legal conditions exist, such as a judicial warrant or probable-cause determination, a qualifying conviction under Government Code section 7282.5(a), or current California Sex and Arson registry status. In practical terms, "released from Tehama County Jail" can mean release to the community, but it can also mean a lawful transfer. That is why the release record and court record matter.
Tehama's reentry details also matter for local sentences. The research identifies Tehama County Probation's Day Reporting Center and Work Release and Education Program at 780 Antelope Boulevard as part of the county's reentry landscape, with Probation reachable through 530-527-4052. A person released from the jail may have probation, mandatory supervision, PRCS, community service, or other court-ordered requirements. Those conditions are usually confirmed through the court and Probation, not through the jail roster once the person has left custody.
Jail History and Reentry Context
The facility's age and capacity are not just local color. Tehama's jail history, later additions, and local reentry infrastructure help explain why release research may cross from the jail to probation or state supervision. Local reporting and county materials describe adult local criminal justice and reentry planning tied to jail expansion and AB 109 responsibilities. For a released person, that can mean the jail record is only the first record in a chain that continues through Tehama Superior Court, Tehama County Probation, CDCR parole, or CDCR CIRIS.
AB 109 is a practical reason to keep the county and state tracks separate. Tehama Probation's materials describe PRCS and Mandatory Supervision as local supervision categories that can follow custody, while CDCR parole remains a state supervision route. A person sentenced locally under a split sentence may have one kind of post-release obligation, while a person sent to CDCR may later return to Tehama under PRCS or parole. The facility page therefore uses the jail for the custody-release record, the court for the legal authority, and the supervision agency for what follows.