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The website is as current as our local system. Some of the information is first entered into a state system and then transferred back to the local system early the next business morning. Normally the information is entered into the state system about 4 hours after filing, but it can take as long as 24 hours. So basically you should see the information the next or following business morning.

As of now, visiting information for the jail is not available on the LINX page. We hope to include that along with more jail related information in the future. But for now, you'll have to call the Jail Reception Desk at 798-4590 to find specific visiting times.

"Concurrent" means that the bail or sentence for that charge is running at the same time as another charge. For example, if someone had two charges, and received a 10 day sentence for each crime, he or she would spend 10 days in jail, because the inmate would be serving both sentences at the same time.

"Consecutive" is the opposite of concurrent. If the same person had received two 10 day sentences, and they were consecutive, the second sentence wouldn't start until after the first one ended, so the inmate would end up spending 20 days in jail.

Concurrent is also used for bail amounts. Sometimes the judge will see a defendant who is arrested on several charges, and instead of giving a separate bail amount for each charge, he or she will issue one bail amount that will release the defendant on all the charges from that court. When this happens, the bail amount is shown for one charge from that court, and the rest of them will say either "CRNT" or "Concurrent", depending on what you're looking at in LINX.

Historical jail release dates information is not available on the Internet. You will need to contact the jail at (253) 798-4668.

LINX is a locally developed system available only in Pierce County.

The Washington State Courts JIS-Link system provides access to case information for all Washington Courts. JIS-Link is a fee-based system. The current fee schedule is a one-time installation fee of $100.00 and connect time charges of $25.00 per hour (approx. 42 cents per minute).

Washington State Patrol allows anyone to obtain Washington State criminal history conviction information using the Watch search engine. A non-refundable fee of $10.00 is charged for every search.

The Clerk of the Superior Court makes all non-sealed Superior Court records available for public review in Room 110 in the County-City Building (930 Tacoma Avenue South). Copies of court documents are available for $2.00 for the first page and $1.00 for each additional page of the document. For more information call the Clerk's Records & Copies Division at (253) 798-7717.

If you are a victim or witness contact:

PIERCE COUNTY PROSECUTING ATTORNEY
JUSTICE SERVICES DIVISION - VICTIM WITNESS ASSISTANCE
930 Tacoma Avenue South, Room 946
Tacoma WA 98402-2171
Main - (253) 798-6875

When a law suit is filed, an Affidavit of Service is also filed by the messenger service or by the person delivering the documents, stating copies of the documents were properly served as required by law on the other parties of the lawsuit. This is a signed, sworn statement that must be notarized.