The Placer County Sheriff's Office Corrections Division is currently accepting applications for Administrative Legal Clerk - Entry and Administrative Legal Clerk - Journey. Please review individual job postings for the minimum qualifications required at each level. To participate at the entry level, journey level, or both, you must complete and submit separate applications for each recruitment:

Administrative Legal Clerk - Entry #2026-12351-02

Administrative Legal Clerk - Journey #2026-12352-01

The Corrections Division (jail) of the Sheriff's Office is seeking several Administrative Legal Clerks. These positions perform a variety of administrative and clerical work and are responsible for working in warrants, booking, and the front office. In addition to base pay, positions in this division receive 5% Jail Incentive Pay, Night Shift Differential pay of 7.5% (when assigned to work the night shift), and a uniform allowance in the amount of $800 per year. This division requires working 12-hour shifts, including nights, weekends, and holidays. Positions are located in the jail at either the Auburn or South Placer facility. All jail shifts are rotational based on seniority.

This continuous recruitment will remain open for the calendar year, or until the final filing date, whichever occurs first. The eligible list established from this continuous recruitment will expire by the end of the calendar year. Applicants will be eligible to reapply and take an examination if a new recruitment opens the following calendar year.

Applicants who are hired as temporary/extra-help may be eligible to transition to permanent status. Temporary/extra-help positions are limited to 999 hours per fiscal year (960 hours for CalPERS retired annuitants). Extra-Help staff may not be required to work night, weekend, or holiday shifts.

Online examinations will be scheduled throughout the year as applications are received. Qualified applicants will be notified of their testing date via email once the examination date has been scheduled. Review the Selection Procedure section to review the tentative testing dates.

To be included in the next cut-off in this recruitment, please submit your application materials by Friday, September 25, 2026, at 5:00 p.m. The next testing session is tentatively scheduled for the Week of October 19, 2026.

Essential duties may include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Perform general and legal clerical duties related to assigned functional area and department including compiling data for, summarizing and maintaining a variety of statistical logs, reports, records, lists and files.
• Review legal documents, arrests or incident records, probation reports, Coroner reports, citations, and files to identify inaccurate, inconsistent, and unclear information; notify appropriate staff to resolve issue.
• Process records requests; maintain and purge records and files consistent with department policies.
• Receive and log inmate property; release property to inmates and/or family members consistent with department policies.
• Enter, modify and cancel warrants.
• Fingerprint the public, arrestees, and inmates; register sex, arson, and gang offenders.
• Type, proofread and process a variety of documents including general and legal correspondence, memos, and statistical charts from rough draft.
• Act as a receptionist; answer the telephone and wait on the general public and other law enforcement agencies, receive and respond to requests for information regarding department and assigned program policies and procedures in accordance with legal requirements governing release of information.
• Issue, receive, type and process various legal applications, and other forms; process bookings and other jail related documents; transmit recorded information to State of California and other states.
• Collect and process fees and charges; process bails and permits.  
• Schedule appointments as assigned.
• Perform a wide variety of clerical work including filing, checking and recording information on records.
• Sort and file legal and general documents and records, maintaining alphabetical, index, and cross-reference files.
• Maintain a variety of statistical records; check and tabulate statistical data; prepare routine statistical reports.
• Operate standard office equipment including word processing applications as assigned, may perform duties on computer spreadsheet programs; operate stand alone computer software programs or equipment as related to the legal obligation assigned.
• Compile data, summarize and maintain a variety of statistical logs, reports, records, lists and files.
• Operate and access automated criminal justice telecommunication information systems and subsystems.
• Screen for entrance/exit for visitors to and from secured areas.
• Enter, modify and retrieve data into local, state and national computer systems.
• Conduct record searches in a centralized data base.
• May be subpoenaed to testify in court.
• Receive, sort and distribute incoming and outgoing mail and packages.
• May act as secretary as necessary.
• Build and maintain positive working relationships with co-workers, other County employees and the public using principles of good customer service.
• When assigned to the jail, may process inmates into custody.
• Perform related duties as assigned.

Martin Rivera