Check ICE Detainee Releases

ICE Release Paths in San Jacinto

No ICE detention center or contract facility was verified in San Jacinto County. ICE is a receiving-custodian route only when a sheriff record, detainer, court file, or agency notice supports it. A county book-out to ICE ends local jail custody while immigration confinement continues. Conversely, release from ICE ends only the detention that ICE reports. It does not rule out another criminal authority or supervision.

Confirm an ICE Detainee Release

Search the ICE Online Detainee Locator System with a nine-digit A-number and country of birth, adding leading zeroes when needed. The alternate search requires exact name, date of birth, and country of birth. Minor errors can prevent a match.

1. Obtain the San Jacinto County book-out destination or another document showing an ICE connection.
2. Search by A-number and country of birth when possible.
3. Try the exact biographical route if no number is known.
4. Record the wording and date of the result.
5. Contact the proper Enforcement and Removal Operations office if documented ICE custody remains unresolved.

ODLS omits minors and can omit or delay other records. Security exclusions, agency discretion, spelling, processing time, and limited retention can cause silence. Do not treat no result as proof of release.

ICE Recent Release Coverage

ICE attorney guidance says ODLS focuses on current detention and can include people released from ICE within roughly the prior 60 days. That is not a permanent archive. The exact live result controls, and later disappearance does not establish that detention never occurred.

A-number

The immigration file number entered as nine digits in ODLS.

Detainer

A request or authority that can lead a jail to transfer a person to ICE.

Transfer

A change of custodian while confinement continues.

ICE release

The end of ICE detention, not proof all legal restraints ended.

Preserve a dated notice or result when it matters, then confirm with the agency. A locator display is not a certified record and does not promise that the same entry will remain available.

San Jacinto ICE Transfer Records

The sheriff's booking/release sheet is the first record for a local handoff. Request book-in and book-out time, disposition, releasing authority, destination, and receiving agency. If the destination names ICE, continue in ODLS. If it names USMS, BOP, TDCJ, or another county, use that system instead.

Texas Government Code Chapter 552 governs a county request subject to exceptions. The office need not create a report. Call the sheriff at 936-653-4367 to confirm the submission method because no dedicated release portal, records hours, or public-information email was found.

The San Jacinto County release-record path connects local exit evidence with the court and receiving custodian. ODLS should not replace the sheriff record when the question is how county custody ended.

ICE Versus Federal Custody

ICE, BOP, and USMS are separate channels. BOP covers federal sentenced custody. USMS commonly controls federal pretrial detention and transport but has no public prisoner locator. ICE covers immigration detention through ODLS. A person absent from one belongs in another only when the case or transfer record supports that route.

Matching the authority prevents an immigration transfer from being mislabeled as a federal prison release or a local bond-out.

ICE Detention Contact Scope

There is no verified ICE detention site or county ICE release desk in San Jacinto County. ODLS is the public starting point. The appropriate ERO field office is the follow-up when a documented immigration connection exists but the locator is silent. Exact release logistics belong to the facility holding the person.

Note: Confirm the receiving facility before travel because the county booking location does not identify where ICE processing will occur.

Documenting an ICE Release

Preserve the A-number, exact name, country of birth, status, and date checked when ODLS returns a match. The locator is not permanent. ICE guidance allows some recently released people to appear for roughly 60 days, but the live record and exclusions control. Later silence does not erase earlier detention or exclude another authority.

When ODLS is silent despite a documented transfer, verify spelling and nine-digit A-number format. Minors do not display. Security exclusions, delay, discretion, and limited retention can hide a record. Contact the proper ERO office with identifiers and evidence of ICE custody. Avoid a broad name question when the sheriff record supplies a destination.

Store the local and federal events separately. The San Jacinto release sheet shows when county custody ended and whether ICE received the person. ODLS or an ICE record shows immigration detention. A court order explains authority in its case. Together they form a chain, but no item proves every agency's status.

Travel requires facility confirmation. The county where arrest began does not identify the ICE holding or release point. Transfers may occur after the first ODLS result. Confirm current public instructions near the event and never use the county jail as an ICE pickup place unless an official record directs it.

After ICE release, reporting duties or another case may remain. ODLS does not give a full account of those obligations or replace a criminal docket, BOP result, or state record. Follow only the documented authority. This keeps “released from ICE” accurate while allowing the county transfer and later event to be verified.

ICE Locator Identity Checks

The A-number route is stronger than a common name, but it must be entered as nine digits with country of birth. Add leading zeroes when needed. The biographical route needs exact first and last name, date of birth, and country. Hyphens, multiple surnames, spelling, and date errors can change the result. Compare known documents before concluding there is no match.

ODLS excludes people under 18 from public display. ICE also describes security and other limits. A no-result is therefore not an event field called “released.” It can mean no match, delay, exclusion, custody outside ICE, or a recent record no longer retained. Only a stated result or agency record should be described as an ICE release.

A detainer is the local trap. The sheriff may book a person out and list ICE as the destination. That is a release from county custody and a transfer into federal immigration custody at the same time. Request the receiving agency field. Without it, disappearance from IVSS-Counties cannot distinguish community release from the handoff.

ICE release has the same boundary in reverse. It shows the end of immigration detention but cannot exclude a state warrant, county case, BOP custody, USMS action, or court supervision. Check another system only when a record points there. Random name searches across systems can join unrelated people.

For a formal local request, give the San Jacinto sheriff a name, identifier, booking range, and the exact existing records sought. Ask for the book-out time, disposition, authority, and destination. For an ICE inquiry, use the A-number and the documented transfer. Narrow requests reduce mistaken identity and make the custody sequence easier to verify.