Check ICE Detainee Releases

ICE Transfers After Clay Release

ICE describes an immigration detainer as a request to a confinement facility concerning an impending release so the agency can assume custody. That definition changes how a Clay County release sheet must be read. “Released to ICE” can be accurate about the end of CCSO custody while the person remains confined. It should be recorded as a transfer from Clay to ICE, not as release to the community.

The next location may be an ICE detention facility outside Clay County. Current federal facility directories do not establish the Green Cove Springs jail as a present ICE detention site. A family or representative should use the ICE locator, note the current facility when returned, and contact the responsible ICE field channel for a recent case. The Clay record remains useful because it documents the handoff date, reason, hold, and receiving agency.

A detainer is not itself the physical transfer record. CCSO must still process the county exit, and ICE must accept custody for the handoff to occur. Ask for both steps when the sequence matters. A court order ending the Clay criminal hold may explain why the person became available, but it does not decide the immigration case or certify the later federal release.

Search ICE Release Records from Clay

The ICE Online Detainee Locator System, or ODLS, offers two search methods for adults. The strongest uses an A-number and country of birth. The second uses exact first and last name, country of birth, and date of birth. ICE warns that names must match exactly, including hyphens. An A-number must be entered as nine digits, so shorter numbers need leading zeros.

1. Review the Clay release sheet for an ICE hold, A-number, handoff date, or receiving agency.
2. Search ODLS by the nine-digit A-number and country of birth when those facts are available.
3. If needed, search the exact first and last name with country and date of birth, preserving hyphens and spelling.
4. Record the returned custody status and facility. A result must be read as an ICE event, not a Clay jail event.
5. If no recent adult record appears, call the Detention Reporting and Information Line and provide the identifying facts.

ODLS does not search minors. Current ICE guidance says it includes people in ICE custody and people released from ICE within the last 60 days. That recent window is not a promise of permanent access. A record can age out even though the underlying agency file still exists.

Note: An exact-name failure may reflect spelling, a hyphen, the recent-release window, or a person outside ODLS coverage.

ICE Detainee Lookup Fields

The locator asks for only enough information to identify and locate a person. It does not act as a full immigration case docket or certified release packet. Keep the search inputs and the returned custody or location information separate from the Clay release event.

A Clay County criminal docket may show why the county case ended or what the judge ordered, but it does not certify ICE detention or immigration release. Likewise, ODLS does not provide the county booking-room timestamp. The Clay County release-record path explains how to keep the local and receiving-agency events linked.

ICE Release Help for Clay Cases

When ODLS does not find a recent adult record, use the ICE Detention Reporting and Information Line, known as DRIL. The line can route detention concerns and help locate a person when the web search is inconclusive. Prepare the full name, aliases, A-number if known, country and date of birth, Clay booking number, handoff date, and any receiving location named by CCSO.

Ask a narrow question: whether the person is now in ICE custody, which facility or field office controls the record, and how to request the detention or release document. If the person was released from ICE, ask which office owns the completed event and what identifying data the request needs. Do not treat a phone routing answer as a substitute for the written record when exact dates matter.

For the local segment, CCSO Public Records can supply the release event, detainer disposition, and receiving agency. The ICE segment must come from the federal custodian. One broad request sent only to Clay will not produce the later ICE file.

Language access or a representative may help with a complex inquiry, but the locator inputs still need to match the agency record. Keep a copy of the A-number and each facility name. If the person moves again, ask which field office now owns the file and whether a new locator check is needed.

Clay ICE Detainer Record Chain

A focused county request should identify the booking and ask for the actual physical release date and time, release reason, every hold or detainer and its disposition, receiving agency, and transfer document. These fields show whether ICE actually assumed custody rather than merely lodging a request. Florida public-record law applies to the CCSO segment, subject to specific exemptions and redactions.

Then request the ICE custody segment with the A-number, full identity, transfer date, and known facility. The useful records can include intake, location history, transfer, and release data that are available under federal rules. The Clay court docket may add the local sentence or bond order, but immigration detention is civil and does not become part of the criminal court's release log merely because the paths touch.

Detainer

An agency request concerning impending release so ICE may assume custody.

Handoff

The physical transfer from the county custodian to the federal agency.

ODLS

The public ICE locator for covered adults in current custody and a limited recent-release period.

Note: Request both the detainer disposition and receiving agency because a lodged detainer alone does not prove a completed ICE transfer.

Clay ICE Detention History Explained

A historical ICE document discusses immigration detainees at the Green Cove Springs jail in 2003. It is evidence about that dated arrangement only. Current ICE detention directories and inspection sources found during the research do not establish Clay County Jail as a current ICE detention facility. The old document must not be converted into a present-tense facility or contract claim.

ICE also publishes 2025 cooperation agreements with CCSO. A Task Force Model memorandum is dated February 26, 2025, and a Warrant Service Officer agreement is dated February 24, 2025. Those records establish a current enforcement relationship. They do not, by themselves, prove that the jail houses ICE detainees under a detention contract or that any named person was transferred.

The correct test remains person-specific. Inspect the Clay release sheet for an ICE hold and completed handoff, then search ODLS and request the federal record. If current contract status itself matters, request the agreement and recent billing or booking records from CCSO and ICE instead of relying on the 2003 file.

ICE, BOP, and FDC Differ

ICE civil detention is not the same as a BOP federal prison term or an FDC state sentence. BOP uses a locator that retains most federal prisoner records from 1982 forward. FDC uses statewide prison, release, supervision, and absconder databases. ODLS has a much shorter recent-release window and separate identity inputs.

A Clay transfer sheet determines which branch to follow. “FDC” leads to the state offender search. “USMS” leads to the federal court and Marshals path, followed by BOP only after designation. “ICE” leads to ODLS and DRIL. The county roster should not be used to claim that custody ended once the receiving agency is named.