White Settlement Inmate Search: Tarrant County Jail, Bond, Visits

To run a White Settlement inmate search, use the Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office online tool at inmatesearch.tarrantcounty.com. White Settlement’s police department operates only a short-term holding facility, so anyone arrested in the city who isn’t quickly released is transferred to the Tarrant County Jail in Fort Worth, where they appear in the county’s public lookup.¹

Why There’s No White Settlement Inmate Lookup

The White Settlement Police Department runs a holding facility at 8900 Clifford Street, reachable at 817-246-7070. Its job is booking and processing, not long-term custody.² Texas minimum jail standards define a holding cell as temporary detention not to exceed 48 hours, and state law requires that an arrested person be brought before a magistrate within that same 48-hour window.³

Arraignments at the facility are generally held daily, usually in the morning. A judge reads the charges, informs the person of their rights, and sets a bond.² If the charge is a Class B misdemeanor or higher, the arraignment has happened, the District Attorney has accepted the case, and the bond has not been posted, the person is moved to the Tarrant County Jail at 100 N. Lamar Street in Fort Worth.⁴ Because the holding facility is temporary, it does not publish an inmate list. In the first hours after an arrest, calling the department directly at 817-246-7070 is often the only way to confirm someone is there.

Searching the Tarrant County Jail

Once the transfer happens, the person shows up in the county system. There are three ways to look:

The online inmate search at inmatesearch.tarrantcounty.com accepts a name or a County Identification Number (CID) and returns custody status, race, and sex.¹
The inmate information line at 817-884-3000 will tell you whether a bond has been set and the amount.⁵
Daily booked-in reports covering the last 14 days of intake are posted as PDFs on the Sheriff’s Detention Bureau page. They aren’t searchable by arresting agency, so you’ll need to scroll.⁶

The county warns that the online data is a public service and may not be perfectly current, so anything you plan to rely on in a legal matter should be confirmed against official records.¹ The general county operator is 817-884-1111.

One boundary worth knowing: if the person you’re looking for was sentenced to state prison rather than held in a county jail, they won’t appear in the Tarrant County system. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice runs a separate statewide search at inmate.tdcj.texas.gov with unit location, offenses, and projected release dates.⁷

Posting Bond

Once bond is set, it can be posted 24 hours a day at the bond desk at 100 N. Lamar in Fort Worth. You can pay the full amount yourself or go through a Tarrant County licensed bail bond company.⁵

Visiting, Writing, and Sending Money

In-person visitation at the Tarrant County Jail runs on a schedule tied to the inmate’s last name. A through L visit Saturdays and Mondays from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Fridays from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. M through Z visit Sundays and Tuesdays from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Fridays from 3 p.m. to 9 p.m. Visits last 30 minutes, with a cap of two adults and two children. Visitors coming from more than 150 miles away qualify for a 40-minute visit, with residency verified on arrival.⁸

Visitors 18 and older need a valid photo ID (Real ID driver’s license, passport, or military ID). The jail enforces a conservative dress code and bars cell phones, cameras, bags, and tobacco.⁸

Non-legal mail no longer goes to the jail. Under the Smart Communications MailGuard program, letters, postcards, greeting cards, and photos are sent to a processing center in Florida, scanned, and delivered to inmates on tablets at no cost. The address is Smart Communications / Tarrant Co Jail, First and Last Name #Inmate Number, PO Box 9195, Seminole, FL 33775-9137. Legal mail is exempt and still goes directly to the facility.⁹

Money can be added to an inmate account online through Access Corrections (Visa and MasterCard), by phone at 866-345-1884, at lobby kiosks in the facilities, or in cash at Cash Pay Today locations in participating retailers such as Dollar General and Family Dollar. Cash is not accepted by mail or at the jail. The only mail-in option is a U.S. Postal or Western Union money order.¹⁰

Getting Arrest Records From White Settlement Police

For the arrest paperwork itself, the White Settlement Police Department’s Records Division handles offense, incident, arrest, and accident reports, which are generally open under the Texas Public Information Act unless an exception applies.¹¹ Court records are a separate category governed by Texas Supreme Court rules, not the Public Information Act.¹²

You can submit a request through the online portal at wstx.justfoia.com, email records@wspd.us, visit the department Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., or mail a request to Police Records at 8900 Clifford Street. Incident and offense reports cost ten cents per page, and a background check or clearance letter costs five dollars.¹³

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