Locate ICE Custody Changes

Where ICE Transfers Lead

ICE detention is civil immigration custody administered by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. It is separate from a Daviess County criminal booking, a Kentucky DOC sentence, and federal BOP imprisonment. A person can finish or leave one custody episode and immediately enter another. That is why a DCDC release-to-detainer notation must not be shortened to “free” or “released home.”

An immigration detainer asks a law-enforcement agency to notify ICE before release and to maintain custody for a limited period so ICE can assume custody. The researched ICE explanation permits a hold of up to 48 hours beyond the time the person would otherwise be released, excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays. The local release record may therefore mark the end of DCDC authority while the ICE system begins a new detention trail.

DCDC Is Not an ICE Facility

No official source reviewed establishes Daviess County Detention Center as an ICE contract detention facility. DCDC’s official description says it holds county, state, and federal inmates, but that statement does not prove an ICE detention agreement. A federal population can include U.S. Marshals detainees or other federal custody categories.

The ICE page must therefore be read as a follow-up system for a possible immigration detainer or transfer, not as a claim that ICE operates beds at DCDC. The distinction protects against two common errors: describing every federal detainee as an immigration detainee, and describing a person who left the county roster as released to the community.

When the source record uses a broad label such as “released to another agency,” request the receiving-agency notation from DCDC. Do not infer ICE solely from citizenship, name, language, charge, or absence from JailTracker.

Search ICE Detainee Records

The ICE Online Detainee Locator System, or ODLS, is the official public search for people in ICE custody who are eligible to appear. It allows an A-number and country-of-birth search or a biographical search. The A-number route is usually more precise because spelling, name order, spacing, and transliteration can vary.

1. Open ODLS and choose the A-number or biographical search.
2. For an A-number search, enter the number and country of birth exactly as requested.
3. For a name search, use the person’s complete legal name, country of birth, and birth date when required.
4. Compare every returned identifier before relying on the result.
5. Record the facility or contact information displayed by ICE.
6. If no result appears, retry accurate variants and use the ICE information line or ERO channel.

ODLS does not include every person, and a record can reflect data timing or transfer. No result does not prove release, removal, or absence from ICE custody. Some people may be outside the locator’s public coverage. A recent transfer may also take time to appear. Call the official channel rather than converting silence into a status.

ICE Records and Contact Channels

The ICE Detention Reporting and Information Line is 1-888-351-4024. Research identifies its hours as Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Eastern. It can route detention questions and concerns, but callers should have identifying information ready and should expect privacy limits.

ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations, often called ERO, is the operational field-office route when the locator gives a facility or when a specific transfer needs follow-up. Use the current ICE contact information tied to the returned record. DCDC can speak to its own custody episode and records, but it cannot certify a later ICE location it does not control.

Request Daviess Transfer Proof

DCDC’s official past-inmate policy makes the executed local release date public. That date shows when the person became a past inmate at the county facility. It does not, by itself, state whether the person went home, entered ICE detention, moved under USMS authority, or transferred elsewhere.

When the online record is unclear, request the booking and release sheet for the specific custody episode. Include the full name, approximate arrest or booking date, and booking number if known. Ask for the actual release date and time, disposition, and any receiving-agency or detainer notation. A narrow request is less likely to sweep in protected material that does not answer the question.

DCDC accepts written, signed, and dated requests at openrecords@daviesscojail.org or by mail to Open Records Request, Daviess County Detention Center, 3337 Highway 144, Owensboro, KY 42303. Its office lists 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Central on weekdays except legal holidays and a five-business-day written response period. The request must include an address, Kentucky-residency statement, and enough detail to identify the record.

A response may redact protected information, deny an exempt part, state that no record exists, or provide a production schedule. The resulting notation should be quoted exactly. “Detainer,” “transfer,” and “released to agency” are not interchangeable unless the record treats them that way.

Daviess and ICE Records Compared

The strongest verification uses two systems. DCDC documents the end of the county-jail episode. ICE documents the civil immigration episode. Court records may explain the criminal order, but they do not necessarily control or disclose the later immigration action. Kentucky VINE may report a local custody change for a participating agency, yet it is not an ICE locator.

If the records conflict, verify identifiers first. Similar names, different custody dates, interface delay, and separate agency definitions can produce an apparent mismatch. Save the lookup date, the exact label, and any facility or agency named in the result.

ICE Release and Transfer Meanings

“Release” changes meaning with the source. DCDC may use it for release to another custodian. ICE may use it for the end of its detention, which can still involve conditions or an ongoing immigration case. A criminal court release order addresses criminal custody and does not necessarily prevent a separate ICE action.

Detainer

An ICE request tied to notice and temporary continued custody for potential assumption by ICE.

Transfer

Movement from one agency or detention location to another.

ICE detention

Civil immigration confinement administered by ICE, distinct from a criminal sentence.

Community release

An exit from secure detention that still may carry reporting or immigration conditions.

Do not call a person deported or removed merely because ODLS no longer returns a result. The absence can have several explanations. An official immigration record or appropriate legal representative is needed for that conclusion.

Separate Federal Custody Systems

The Bureau of Prisons locator is for federal prisoners, including historical released entries from 1982 forward. It is not an ICE locator. USMS manages many federal pretrial detainees and transports but has no public released-prisoner database. ICE ODLS serves the separate civil immigration system. Choosing the wrong federal tool can hide the very record being sought.

A DCDC federal detainee might be under USMS authority without any immigration connection. A state-sentenced person at DCDC belongs in KOOL and Kentucky DOC Daily Releases. A county detainee belongs in the DCDC past record. The person’s classification and receiving agency, not the word “federal” alone, determine the next search.

Use the Federal Bureau of Prisons system page when a federal sentence, BOP number, or USMS case applies. Use ODLS only when there is a supported immigration custody basis.

Confirm an ICE Custody Change

Begin with the known DCDC episode. Confirm the booking, the past release date, and any receiving-agency notation. Then search ODLS with the strongest available identifier. If the result is absent or unclear, call the detention information line and follow the ERO contact associated with the case or facility.

Keep a short log of each check: source, date, time zone, identifiers used, status wording, and office contacted. Preserve any written DCDC response. This record helps distinguish an update lag from a true change and gives the agency enough context to review a mismatch.

The Daviess County released-inmate search covers the broader county, state, court, VINE, federal, and records sequence. An ICE inquiry should join that sequence only when the facts support immigration custody.