Before Your First Visit to Bay Regional: What to Bring, What to Leave Behind, and What to Expect
First visits can be stressful, especially when you're worried about getting turned away. This checklist helps you show up prepared for Bay Regional, get through check-in smoothly, and avoid common mistakes that can end a visit early.
Bring a valid photo ID every time you visit Bay Regional Juvenile Detention Center. Staff check it at entry, and you'll be turned away without one.
Parents, grandparents, and legal guardians are approved to visit at Bay Regional. Anyone else needs either a court order or specific approval from the Superintendent (or their designee).
Personal Items Prohibited
- ✓ Keys
- ✓ Purses
- ✓ Packages
- ✓ Other personal items
Contraband rules here are serious. Bringing any unauthorized item into the facility is a third-degree felony. If you're unsure whether something is allowed, leave it behind. Arrive with only what you need to enter.
Warning: Introducing any unauthorized items into the detention facility is a third-degree felony. Do not try to pass anything to a youth or bring items into the secure area that are not explicitly approved.
Expect screening when you arrive. All visitors go through an electronic search, and staff can deny entry if you refuse. Visitation happens in a designated area that's searched before and after each visit to ensure no contraband or hazardous items are present.
- Arrive ready for electronic screening. All visitors are subject to electronic search as part of the entry process.
- Keep your visit in the designated visitation area. Visits take place in rooms or areas chosen to support a safe, secure environment.
- Expect the room to be checked. Visitation rooms and areas are searched before and after visits to help ensure contraband or hazardous items are not present.
You'll sign in and out on the youth's Visitor's Log. Plan a few extra minutes for this at both arrival and departure so you're not rushed at the door.
Bay Regional can deny entry if you're disruptive, refuse to be searched, or won't follow officer instructions. You can also be turned away if you appear intoxicated, don't have proper photo ID, attempt to bring contraband into the secure area, or wear attire that violates facility rules posted at the entrance. Once admitted, your visit can still be ended if either your behavior or the youth's behavior becomes disruptive or noncompliant. Stay calm, follow directions promptly, and keep the focus on a steady visit to protect your time together.
- ✓ Being disruptive or uncooperative
- ✓ Refusing to be searched
- ✓ Refusing to comply with officer instructions
- ✓ Being under the influence, or appearing to be under the influence, of an intoxicating substance
- ✓ Failing to present proper photo identification
- ✓ Attempting to introduce contraband to the secure area
- ✓ Wearing inappropriate attire (as outlined in facility operating procedures and posted at the entrance)
Note: If a visit is terminated for disruptive or noncompliant behavior, it may lead to suspension of future visitation privileges at the Superintendent’s discretion.
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