Luis Rico

I worked the 11 A.M. to 8 P.M. shift. From 11 to 5 I would work security at the county courthouse/courthouse annex. This would consist of multiple jobs including running every public visitor through a metal detector to make sure no weapons are being brought into the building; sometimes you would be assigned as a Bailiff to a courtroom; making walks around the building to make sure doors a secure and employees are alright.

At the courthouse annex our main jobs are to do routine walks around the building to check on the different departments located inside to make sure employees are alright; responding to to the probation office whenever one of the probationers checking in has a warrant; working as a Bailiff inside the juvenile court room across the street.

We are making warrant arrest and judgement and sentence arrests on a regular basis at these different locations.

There are several positions inside the jail including:

- Control room

- Housing unit officer

- Roamer

- Central Book in

- Solitary Housing Unit

- Medical segregation

Most of these positions include hitting routine security checks to make sure the inmates are not doing anything they're not supposed to and to make sure things are running in compliance.

The control room consists of running the entire facility with a partner, duties including; opening doors, watching inmates, controlling different alarms.

Central book in consists of booking in people that are being brought in by the different peace officers throughout the county.

Roamer duties include escorting inmates throughout the facility to places such as visitation, nurses station, etc.; also bringing supplies to housing units, conducting shakedowns, etc.