17780 Arrow Blvd · Probate · Civil · Traffic
Fontana Courthouse
Bail Bonds Guide
The Fontana District is the West Valley probate courthouse and handles small claims, landlord/tenant, traffic, and civil harassment. Criminal matters — and therefore bail — are calendared elsewhere.
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Fontana Courthouse
17780 Arrow Blvd, Fontana, CA 92335
(909) 350-9322
Court hours Monday–Friday · Midnight Bail Bonds open 24 hours
Criminal matters and Fontana bail bonds run through other buildings and other facilities. Our San Bernardino office at 165 W Hospitality Ln handles them 24 hours a day.
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Table Of Contents
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Courthouse Overview
Hours Of Operation
Our Reviews
Charges We Handle
Parking And Directions
Departments & Case Types
How To Post Bail
Nearby Jails & Detention Centers
Bail FAQs
Courthouse Overview
The Fontana Courthouse sits at 17780 Arrow Boulevard, at the northeast corner of Arrow Highway and Alder Avenue. One address correction first, because it matters when you are driving to a hearing: the street is Arrow Boulevard. Arrowhead Avenue is in the city of San Bernardino, two cities east, and the two get mixed up constantly.
We checked the criminal question rather than assuming it. The Superior Court's current location listing for the Fontana District names five categories: small claims, landlord/tenant, probate, traffic, and civil harassment. Criminal does not appear on it. So while this building is a full working courthouse with a busy calendar, it is not the building where a Fontana arrest gets arraigned.
What Fontana is, definitively, is the probate courthouse for this side of the county. The court's own probate division states that decedents' estates, trusts, and conservatorships are filed and heard at the Fontana and Victorville Districts, and that CARE Act petitions are filed and heard at Fontana specifically. For Bloomington, Chino, Chino Hills, Colton, Fontana, and the surrounding zip codes, probate work comes here.
For criminal matters, the West Valley criminal calendar runs at the Rancho Cucamonga Courthouse and the county-seat calendar at the San Bernardino Justice Center. Which one applies depends on where the arrest happened and which district the case was filed in — read the district and department printed on your release paperwork rather than guessing.
Official court information: sanbernardino.courts.ca.gov
At A Glance
- Fontana Courthouse
- 17780 Arrow Blvd, Fontana, CA 92335
- (909) 350-9322
- San Bernardino County Superior Court — Fontana District
- Bail bonds posted 24/7, including nights, weekends, and court holidays
Hours Of Operation
Court hours and jail release timing are two different clocks. Fontana Courthouse runs on a weekday court calendar; the jail holding your family member runs 24 hours a day.
| Building hours | 8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m., Monday – Friday |
|---|---|
| Lobby doors open | 7:30 a.m. |
| Traffic & small claims windows | 8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. |
| Drop box cutoff | 4:00 p.m. on court days |
| Midnight Bail Bonds | Open 24 hours, 7 days a week |
The court publishes building hours of 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, with lobby doors opening at 7:30 a.m. Traffic infraction and small claims/landlord-tenant service run on the same 8:00 to 4:00 window.
A drop box at the front entrance accepts properly completed documents, program completion proofs, and fine payments by check or money order — no cash. Anything deposited before 4:00 p.m. is received that same date.
Court hours do not govern a jail release. Because there is no custody calendar here, release timing depends on the facility holding the defendant, and those accept bonds at any hour.
Our Reviews
Real feedback from families we've helped release loved ones across San Bernardino County — sourced live from Google.
Charges We Handle
Every charge type and financing option we write for defendants whose cases are calendared at Fontana Courthouse. Open any page for statutes, bail schedule figures, and payment terms.
1% Bail Bonds
Statutes, county bail schedule figures, and financing for 1% bail bonds.
1275 Hold Bail Bonds
Statutes, county bail schedule figures, and financing for 1275 hold bail bonds.
2% Bail Bonds
Statutes, county bail schedule figures, and financing for 2% bail bonds.
24-Hour Bail Bonds
Statutes, county bail schedule figures, and financing for 24-hour bail bonds.
Affordable Bail Bonds
Statutes, county bail schedule figures, and financing for affordable bail bonds.
Assault & Battery Bail Bonds
Statutes, county bail schedule figures, and financing for assault & battery bail bonds.
Burglary Bail Bonds
Statutes, county bail schedule figures, and financing for burglary bail bonds.
Domestic Violence Bail Bonds
Statutes, county bail schedule figures, and financing for domestic violence bail bonds.
Drug Charge Bail Bonds
Statutes, county bail schedule figures, and financing for drug charge bail bonds.
DUI Bail Bonds
Statutes, county bail schedule figures, and financing for dui bail bonds.
Elder Abuse Bail Bonds
Statutes, county bail schedule figures, and financing for elder abuse bail bonds.
Failure To Appear Bail Bonds
Statutes, county bail schedule figures, and financing for failure to appear bail bonds.
Felony Bail Bonds
Statutes, county bail schedule figures, and financing for felony bail bonds.
Gun & Weapons Charge Bail Bonds
Statutes, county bail schedule figures, and financing for gun & weapons charge bail bonds.
Manslaughter Bail Bonds
Statutes, county bail schedule figures, and financing for manslaughter bail bonds.
Misdemeanor Bail Bonds
Statutes, county bail schedule figures, and financing for misdemeanor bail bonds.
Murder Charge Bail Bonds
Statutes, county bail schedule figures, and financing for murder charge bail bonds.
No-Collateral Bail Bonds
Statutes, county bail schedule figures, and financing for no-collateral bail bonds.
No Money Down Bail Bonds
Statutes, county bail schedule figures, and financing for no money down bail bonds.
Online Bail Bonds
Statutes, county bail schedule figures, and financing for online bail bonds.
Probation Violation Bail Bonds
Statutes, county bail schedule figures, and financing for probation violation bail bonds.
Robbery Bail Bonds
Statutes, county bail schedule figures, and financing for robbery bail bonds.
Theft Bail Bonds
Statutes, county bail schedule figures, and financing for theft bail bonds.
Traffic & Vehicle Code Bail Bonds
Statutes, county bail schedule figures, and financing for traffic & vehicle code bail bonds.
Parking And Directions
Directions below follow the court's own published route to the Fontana District. We do not invent access instructions.
From the I-10
Exit at Sierra Avenue and go north — turn right if heading west, left if heading east — to Arrow Highway. Turn right (east) on Arrow Highway to Alder Avenue. The courthouse is at the northeast corner.
Drop box
A drop box at the front entrance takes completed documents, program completions, and fine payments by check or money order. Deposits before 4:00 p.m. count for that court day.
Kiosks
The court operates self-service kiosks at the Fontana, Rancho Cucamonga, and Victorville Districts for handling certain matters without a clerk window.
Security screening
Everyone entering passes through screening. Arrive early on probate calendar mornings — the filing windows here serve a large share of the West Valley.
Departments & Case Types
The case types the Superior Court lists at the Fontana District, plus the work that is heard somewhere else.
Probate — West Valley
Decedents' estates, trusts, guardianships, and conservatorships for the West Valley region. The court's probate division names Fontana and Victorville as the two filing and hearing locations.
CARE Act petitions
The court states that CARE Act proceedings — petitions seeking court-assisted mental health treatment — are filed and heard at the Fontana District.
Small Claims
Small claims filings and hearings, with a dedicated filing fax and email address published by the court for this location.
Landlord / Tenant
Unlawful detainer and landlord-tenant matters for the Fontana service area, listed separately from general civil.
Traffic and civil harassment
Traffic infractions and civil harassment restraining orders. An unresolved infraction is a common route to a bench warrant, which is where a traffic matter becomes a bail matter.
Not Heard Here — Criminal
Arraignments, bail motions under Penal Code §1275, preliminary hearings, and trials are not on this building's listed case types. Check your paperwork for the district — Rancho Cucamonga or the San Bernardino Justice Center.
How To Post Bail At Fontana Courthouse
Bail review and reduction motions in California run under Penal Code §1270.1, and the starting figure comes from the San Bernardino County Felony and Misdemeanor Bail Schedule (effective January 1, 2026).
No bail is set or posted at this courthouse. That is not a technicality about courthouse counters — this building simply does not carry a criminal calendar.
For a Fontana arrest, the bond goes to the facility holding the defendant. In the first hours that is usually the Fontana Municipal Detention Center run by the city's own police department; after transfer it is the West Valley Detention Center in Rancho Cucamonga.
The amount comes from the San Bernardino County Felony and Misdemeanor Bail Schedule adopted under Penal Code §1269b(c). A judge may raise or lower it under Penal Code §1275 after weighing public safety, offense seriousness, record, and probability of appearance, and In re Humphrey (2021) requires the court to consider ability to pay and less restrictive alternatives before setting an amount that results in detention.
Call us first with a name and date of birth. We confirm custody location and amount before anyone drives anywhere, and the premium is the statutory 10% filed with the California Department of Insurance.
Every bond we write is issued by a California Department of Insurance licensed bail agent under Cal. Ins. Code §1800, at the statutory 10% premium.
If A Court Date Here Is Missed
A missed appearance at Fontana Courthouse can mean a forfeited bond and a bench warrant the same day. There is a statutory window to bring the defendant back before forfeiture becomes a judgment against the cosigner — call us immediately. Failure to appear bail bonds →
Nearby Jails & Detention Centers
No defendant is produced from custody at this courthouse. These are the facilities that actually hold people arrested in the Fontana area.
Fontana Municipal Detention Center
17005 Upland Ave, Fontana, CA 92335
Fontana runs its own police department and municipal detention facility. Arrests inside the city are booked here first, and a bond posted before the county transfer ends the custody question without a West Valley intake.
West Valley Detention Center
9500 Etiwanda Ave, Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91739
The county's largest detention facility and the destination for most West Valley transfers, roughly fifteen minutes northwest. Bonds for county custody are posted here.
View PageCentral Detention Center
630 E Rialto Ave, San Bernardino, CA 92415
The downtown county intake facility. Cases filed in the San Bernardino District rather than West Valley may route custody here instead.
View PageBail FAQs
Questions specific to Fontana Courthouse — the calendar, the bail process here, and how release timing actually works.