Locate Immigration Detention Custody

Where ICE Transfers Go

An ICE detainer asks a local custodian to notify or hold for possible federal immigration action under applicable law. When Hood County hands a person to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Sheriff’s record can correctly show a local release even though the person did not enter the community. ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations or a contracted facility may then hold the person. The physical location may be outside Hood County and can change.

Later outcomes are distinct. ICE may release a person under an immigration process, continue detention, transfer the person between facilities, or carry out removal from the United States. A bond or release order in the criminal case does not by itself defeat a separate immigration hold. Likewise, departure from one ICE facility may be a transfer. Use precise language: “released by Hood County to ICE,” “currently detained by ICE,” “released from ICE custody,” and “removed” describe different events.

Confirm Immigration Detention Status

The official Online Detainee Locator System is the first search for current ICE custody. It accepts an A-number with country of birth, or exact biographical details. The biographical route uses name, country of birth, and date of birth. An A-number is the immigration registration number and usually provides the most specific match.

1. Get the full name, date of birth, country of birth, and A-number if known. Preserve spelling and name order from official papers.
2. Search ODLS by A-number and country of birth. If that fails, use the exact biographical option.
3. Compare the identity before relying on a location. Call the listed facility to confirm current procedures rather than assuming an old location remains valid.
4. If no result appears, call the ICE Detention Reporting and Information Line at 888-351-4024.
5. Request the Hood County release record to verify when local custody ended and whether ICE or another authority was named as recipient.

Reading the ICE Locator

ODLS is a current detention-location tool. It is not a list of people released from Hood County, and it is not a complete historical ICE custody archive. A positive result can corroborate present immigration detention and identify a facility. It does not replace the county booking sheet or explain every step between the Hood County Jail and the current site.

A missing result remains weak evidence. The person may have been released, removed, recently transferred, entered under different spelling, fallen outside the public locator’s displayed population, or moved to another authority. Names can include multiple surnames, and date or country entries can vary. Recheck the A-number from immigration paperwork. The information line can assist when the locator fails, but a definitive history may require agency records through the applicable federal request process.

Hood Release to ICE

The Hood County Jail booking desk can confirm point-in-time local custody. A maintained booking and release sheet may include the actual departure time, status, release type, or destination. Send a narrow written request to the Hood County Sheriff Records Division at pialaw@hoodcounty.texas.gov, by fax at 817-573-7372, or by mail or in person at 400 Deputy Larry Miller Drive, Granbury, TX 76048. Include the full name, date of birth, booking number if known, booking date, precise record fields, and desired format.

Ask for existing information rather than demanding a new explanation. A useful request seeks the booking/release record and maintained fields for actual release date and time, release status or destination, and releasing authority. Texas Government Code Chapter 552 requires access to existing responsive public information subject to applicable exceptions; it does not force an agency to create a new report. The Sheriff’s response establishes the county stage. ODLS or ICE records establish what followed.

Criminal and Immigration Cases

A Hood County criminal case and an immigration matter run in separate legal systems. The County Clerk or District Clerk can provide the local disposition according to misdemeanor or felony jurisdiction. A dismissal, bond, time-served judgment, or completed county sentence can explain why the Sheriff no longer held the person. It does not establish what ICE then did.

Immigration custody, bond, removal proceedings, and release conditions require the appropriate federal immigration source. The county clerk does not maintain the immigration case, and the Sheriff does not decide immigration status. Avoid treating a criminal-court release order as an ICE release order. Match the county exit record with ODLS, immigration notices, court records where available, and agency information. This layered method prevents a local transfer from being mistaken for community release.

ICE Detention Contacts

ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations uses federal and contracted facilities. Research identified no specific ICE detention facility inside Hood County, so this page does not assign a local detention address. ODLS supplies the person-specific location when a public result is available.

Before visiting or sending documents, verify the current facility and its procedures. Transfers can make an earlier address obsolete. For a history that the public locator does not show, determine whether an ICE or immigration-record request is appropriate and include the A-number, full identity, and a narrow description of the records sought.

ICE Release Evidence

“Released from ICE custody” should rest on an ICE record, immigration order, facility confirmation, or another reliable federal source. A county sheet that says “released to ICE” proves the opposite point at that moment: county custody ended through handoff to immigration authorities. A later ODLS absence does not fill the gap. It cannot distinguish release, removal, transfer, spelling problems, or an excluded record.

When documenting the sequence, record the date and source for each step. First, note the Hood County actual exit and recipient. Second, capture the ICE location while current. Third, obtain the later order or custody record that explains the end of ICE detention. Finally, check for another custodian if the record names one. This approach recognizes that “release” is agency-specific and avoids claiming more than a source proves.

County, State, Federal Boundaries

Hood County’s live bond report reflects current local listings. Texas IVSS-Counties can provide participating county custody or court-event notifications. TDCJ covers Texas state prisons and state parole. BOP covers federal prison custody. ICE ODLS covers current immigration detention. Each tool has a defined population, and no one locator searches all five systems.

A person can move through several systems. Hood County may release to TDCJ, USMS, ICE, another county, or a contract jail. That movement ends one agency’s custody while confinement continues. The Hood County released-inmate search provides the local starting point. Then follow the named receiving authority. If the county record does not name a destination, ask for the maintained release or transfer field rather than inferring it from a vanished roster entry.

Removal Is Not Release

Removal means the federal government carried out an immigration order sending the person from the United States. It should not be described as ordinary community release. Similarly, voluntary departure, immigration bond, an order of supervision, parole under immigration law, and transfer are legally different events. Use the exact term shown in the official document and avoid translating all outcomes into “released.”

The public locator is not designed to explain these legal distinctions. Immigration paperwork and case records are needed. A local criminal record may remain public even after immigration custody ends, subject to Texas law and any later expunction or nondisclosure order. Neither the immigration result nor the criminal record alone supplies a full custody history. Keep identifiers aligned and verify the issuing agency for each event.

About Immigration Detention Facilities

Immigration detention is administered by ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations and may occur in federal service-processing centers or contracted facilities. It is civil federal custody, not a Hood County sentence and not TDCJ confinement. A person can enter it after a county handoff, a federal operation, or another immigration event. The correct locator and records path therefore differ from the county and state-prison routes.

No ICE detention facility was identified within Hood County during the research sweep. The “Immigration detention facilities” entry represents a nationwide follow-on system serving people transferred from local custody, not a claim that ICE operates a jail in Granbury. Use the live location returned for the person. Confirm changes promptly because transfer, release, or removal can end the usefulness of an earlier facility address.