Who Can Visit Your Child at Bay Regional Juvenile Detention Center — and How to Add Visitors

Three groups are automatically approved to visit at Bay Regional Juvenile Detention Center: parents, grandparents, and legal guardians. If you're in one of these categories, you're already on the approved list for your child.

Legal counsel can visit a youth at Bay Regional as needed. These visits can also happen outside regular visitation hours when necessary.

Probation officers, law enforcement, clergy, and similar professionals may also visit youths as needed. Professional visitors still follow the same basic requirements: sign in and follow contraband rules.

Want to get a friend or extended family member approved? There are two paths at Bay Regional: a court order, or specific approval from the superintendent (or designee). Start by contacting your child's assigned Juvenile Probation Officer (JPO). The JPO handles visitation list additions and special arrangements.

• ✓ Contact your child’s assigned Juvenile Probation Officer (JPO) to ask about adding the person to the visitation list.
• ✓ Be ready to provide whatever information the JPO needs to process the request.
• ✓ If the visit requires it, be prepared to provide a court order.

1. Decide who you want to add: Make sure you are clear about the person’s relationship to your child and why you are requesting the visit.
2. Contact the assigned JPO: The youth’s Juvenile Probation Officer is the person you should contact to approve visitation list additions and special visitation arrangements.
3. Provide any required paperwork or court order: If the request needs documentation or is based on a court order, share that through the process the JPO provides.
4. Wait for the approval decision: If the visitor is not automatically approved, the visit can only happen if it is ordered by the court or specifically approved by the superintendent or designee.

Approval isn't automatic for non-immediate-family visitors. The visit only happens with a court order or superintendent approval, so timing and requirements depend on which route applies to you. For a clear answer on what to submit and what comes next, contact your child's assigned JPO.

Sign Search Contraband Denial

• ✓ Bring a photo ID to every visit.
• ✓ Be prepared to show your photo ID at entry.
• ✓ Sign in and sign out on your child’s Visitor’s Log each time you visit.
• ✓ If you do not present proper photo identification, you can be denied entrance.

All visitors go through an electronic search. You cannot bring personal items into the secure area (keys, purses, packages, etc.). Take this seriously: introducing unauthorized items into a detention facility is a third-degree felony.