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Metro Court Holding Role

The KCSO Metro Court Holding page describes a facility at 1415 Truxtun Avenue in Bakersfield. KCSO identifies it as the former Central Receiving Facility and states that it no longer houses incarcerated persons. Its current function is court holding. People scheduled for court are transported daily from Lerdo facilities to Metro Court Holding for appearances and then returned or otherwise handled according to court orders.

This distinction is critical. Metro Court Holding Facility is not where a family should send personal mail, plan a jail visit, or assume overnight housing. A person may be physically present there for court movement during the day, but the public roster should still be used to find the assigned jail. The nearby criminal court location makes Metro important for court records after a jail arrest, but the facility is not the same as a jail roster housing site.

The matched KCSO image below shows the official Metro Court Holding source used for the court-holding and parking details.

The source confirms that the page should be written around court transport and holding rather than overnight custody.

Metro Court Holding Status

Metro Court Holding has no supported housing capacity figure in the research because it is not a current housing facility. KCSO states that it no longer houses incarcerated persons. The correct population statement is therefore a status statement: people may be held there for court appearances, but they are transported from Lerdo facilities and are not housed overnight at Metro. Any active custody count belongs to the person's roster-listed jail or to broader KCSO Detentions Bureau figures.

KCSO reports about 1,700 average daily inmates across the Detentions Bureau, but that figure should not be assigned to Metro Court Holding. It belongs to the county jail system overall. The court-holding status also means visitation, mail, and commissary details should be routed through the actual housing facility, usually a Lerdo facility shown on the roster profile.

Search Metro Court Custody

The county roster remains the first step. Open the KCSO Inmate Information roster, search by name or booking number, and open the profile. The Jail field tells where the person is assigned for custody. Hearing details may show court dates and locations, but the court record itself should be checked through the Kern Superior Court portal. KCSO's accuracy notice says court results may be more current through the court system.

1. Search the KCSO roster for the person in county custody.
2. Open the profile and note the Jail field, booking number, hearing details, and court case number if present.
3. Use the Kern Superior Court portal to confirm court records after a jail arrest.
4. Do not send mail, money, or visitors to Metro unless KCSO or the court gives a specific instruction.

Metro Court Holding is not CDCR, BOP, or ICE. If the person has left county jail for state prison, federal prison, or immigration detention, use the correct outside locator. If the person is still in county jail but attending court downtown, the KCSO roster and court portal together provide the clearest picture.

Metro Court Holding Contact

Use the Metro contact number for court-holding and facility-location questions. For release, housing, visitation, or commissary issues, call the roster-listed jail. For court-case records, use the Kern Superior Court online case search or records request channels. The facility and the court are close in purpose and location, but they answer different questions.

Metro Court Visitor Limits

Metro Court Holding is not a public visiting jail. A person may be transported there for court, but family visits should be scheduled through the housing facility shown in the KCSO roster. For Pre-Trial, that means last-name visiting days and phone appointment scheduling. For Justice, that means Securus video visitation. Courtroom access is controlled by court rules, not jail visitation rules.

KCSO gives concrete parking guidance for Metro. Drivers enter off L Street south of Truxtun. Weekend public users may use employee parking south of the facility, while weekday public parking nearby can have limits and tickets. That is more specific than the parking detail found for many Lerdo pages.

Metro Mail Money Rules

Do not treat Metro Court Holding as the place to send ordinary personal mail, money, or care packages. Since KCSO says it is not an overnight housing facility, mail and deposit services follow the person's active jail location. For KCSO detention facilities, personal mail uses the Securus Digital Mail Center, phone and video use Securus, and money deposits use Access Corrections, but those services depend on a live inmate profile and booking number.

The roster can show booking number, charges, bail, and hearing details. That does not mean Metro can accept property or payments. When in doubt, confirm with the housing facility before sending funds, mail, or family members downtown.

Metro Court Transport

The custody flow for Metro is arrest, booking or housing at a KCSO facility, transport to court, court holding, then return or other court-ordered handling. Remand means a judge orders a person into custody. A hold or detainer means another legal reason may keep the person in custody. Those issues may affect whether someone returns to Lerdo, is released, or has another agency involved.

Metro is also useful for court-record research because the downtown criminal court location is tied to the court case. A jail roster profile may show hearing location links, but the official case activity is a court record. For court records after a jail arrest, readers should distinguish the KCSO custody record from the court's register of actions, charging documents, hearings, and disposition.