Video Visit Rules at Placerville Jail: What Can Get Your Call Terminated
Scheduling an NCIC video visit with someone at Placerville Jail? A few small mistakes can end your session mid-call—or cancel it before it starts. Here are the rules that trip people up most often, and how to avoid them.
Video visits at Placerville Jail are recorded and monitored by El Dorado County Sheriff's Office personnel. By using the system, you're consenting to that recording and monitoring. Assume everything on screen - and everything said - can be reviewed.
Note: The El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office can deny, cancel, or terminate a video visit before or during the session if they determine there’s visitor or inmate misconduct.
Letting faces drift off-camera is one of the fastest ways to lose a video visit. Placerville Jail requires both the inmate and visitor to keep their faces visible on camera throughout the entire call.
Reminder: If the inmate and/or visitor doesn’t maintain their face within camera view, the visit can be terminated - and the Sheriff’s Office also has the authority to end visits based on misconduct.
Dress Code and Consequences
- ✓ No nudity
- ✓ No tight-fitting clothing
- ✓ No provocative clothing
Placerville Jail enforces its video-visit dress code. Show up in the wrong clothes, and your visit gets cancelled. Worse, dress-code violations can bar you from future remote video visits entirely. Change outfits beforehand rather than risk a cutoff. The El Dorado County Sheriff's Office also reserves the right to deny, cancel, or terminate any video visit based on visitor or inmate misconduct.
If the visitor is under 18, a parent or guardian must be present during the video visit. Plan ahead so an adult can be on-camera for the session from start to finish.
Each inmate gets one remote video visit on days when video visitation is available. Miss your slot or get cancelled? There may not be another remote visit for that inmate until the next eligible day.
Each scheduled video visit is limited to a maximum of 30 minutes. Treat it like a hard stop: get set up a little early, keep the call focused, and avoid anything that could trigger an early termination.
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