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ICE Detainee Locator Transfer Records

Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody is federal civil custody. It is distinct from a Clark County criminal case, Missouri prison custody, and federal criminal imprisonment. No official source reviewed for Clark County identified the Clark County Jail as an ICE detention facility or an ICE contract jail. That absence should remain clear. An individual immigration detainer or federal pickup may still occur without turning the county jail into an ICE facility.

When Clark County reports a person as transferred to ICE, the county custody event ends because another authority takes control. That is not proof of release to the community. The sheriff's booking and release record should identify the public disposition and receiving agency. The ICE Online Detainee Locator and Enforcement and Removal Operations contact route then become the proper federal follow-up.

The record trail should preserve both events. The county record explains when local custody ended and who received the person. ICE records address the later federal custody status. Neither record should be silently used to describe the other agency's event.

Search ICE Detainee Locator Releases

The ICE Online Detainee Locator offers two search routes. The strongest uses the exact nine-digit A-number and country of birth. If the A-number has only eight digits, add a leading zero. The second route uses the person's exact name and country of birth, with date of birth as an optional matching field.

Spelling matters. Use the name form held by ICE when known, including the correct order and full surname. An A-number is more precise than a name, but the country-of-birth field is still required for that search route. Do not publish the full A-number or birth date simply because those details were used privately to match a result.

1. Ask Clark County Jail whether the person remains in local custody. If not, request the public release date, disposition, and receiving agency.
2. Open the official ICE locator. Choose the A-number route when the exact identifier and country of birth are available.
3. Otherwise, search by the exact name and country of birth. Add the date of birth only when needed to separate possible matches.
4. Compare the returned identity and custody details with the Clark County transfer record. Do not rely on a similar name alone.
5. Record the check time and the locator's exact wording. A current location, released result, or no-result each requires a different follow-up.
6. Contact ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations when the county names ICE as receiver but the locator does not resolve the custody trail.

For the full local search before the federal step, the Clark County released-inmate lookup explains the sheriff roster, weekly reports, court record, and written release-record request. Use the ICE route only after the custody classification points to immigration authority.

ICE Detainee Locator Search Fields

The locator fields are designed to identify one person within ICE data. They do not prove why Clark County custody ended, what a court ordered, or whether another agency later took custody. Keep the county disposition beside the federal result.

The locator excludes people under eighteen. It also does not act as a permanent public archive. ICE's official attorney resource says the system includes people currently in ICE custody or released from ICE custody within the prior sixty days. Older releases may require direct ERO contact and records held by the relevant federal office.

Note: A successful identity match answers an ICE custody question, while the Clark County sheriff record answers when and how county custody ended.

ICE Detainee Locator No-Result Limits

A no-result is inconclusive. Processing delays can separate a county pickup from a visible federal record. A spelling difference, name order, incomplete A-number, country entry, age limit, or the locator's short post-release window can also prevent a match. Do not convert no-result into proof that the person was never in ICE custody or has been released.

Start by rechecking the county record. Ask whether Clark County used the exact disposition “transferred,” which agency was named, and when the handoff occurred. Confirm the A-number and country of birth through an appropriate private source if available. Then search again and contact ERO when the county confirms an immigration transfer.

The sixty-day released-person scope is especially important for older Clark County events. The online tool may no longer return a past ICE release even when the transfer and federal custody were real. A dated county release sheet, ICE response, and any receiving-facility record form a stronger history than an unsupported inference from today's locator screen.

ICE Detainee Locator Contact Route

The locator is an online federal system, not a physical facility in Clark County. The related contact route is ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations. Use it when Clark County identifies ICE as the receiving authority, the online record needs clarification, or the person does not appear despite a supported federal transfer.

Have the person's exact name, A-number if known, country of birth, Clark County transfer date, and receiving-agency wording ready. Share sensitive identity data only through the appropriate official contact. Ask for the current custody location or the office that can confirm a recent release event.

Clark County Jail remains the source for the local custody record. Its main number is 660-727-2911, and its official contact page lists 518 N. Lincoln St., Kahoka, Missouri 63445. ICE should not be asked to certify the precise time the county jail completed its transfer.

Clark County ICE Release Trail

The Clark County current JailTracker client is built for current custody. A person who leaves that list may have been released, transferred, moved for court, or affected by a data change. Roster disappearance alone does not identify ICE. The sheriff's weekly reports sometimes state an immediate release method, but they are not a complete rolling discharge log.

Call the sheriff and ask for the public admission date, release date and time, release disposition, and receiving agency. When a durable record is needed, make a narrow written request under Missouri Chapter 610 for the public portions of the booking and release sheet. Include the name, approximate custody dates, and booking or case number if known.

The request should seek the transfer field rather than an entire investigative file. Missouri law permits closed material in some records, while section 610.024 requires separation of public and closed portions where possible. Ask the custodian to provide the segregable public fields and identify the legal basis for any withheld part.

The county and ICE records should be kept in order. A county release time can be accurate even when federal custody continues moments later. Calling the first event a community release would erase the receiving-agency handoff.

ICE Detainee Locator Custody Type

ICE custody is civil immigration custody. It is not a Clark County criminal sentence, Missouri parole, or a Bureau of Prisons term. Clark County belongs to Missouri's First Judicial Circuit, and Case.net may show a local criminal case or order, but that court docket does not function as the ICE locator.

MODOC covers Missouri prison residents and people under state probation, parole, or conditional release. Its Offender Search should not be used to find an ICE detainee. Likewise, the Hannibal Community Supervision Center verifies state supervision for District 3 and does not manage federal immigration detention.

The Bureau of Prisons locator covers people who actually entered BOP custody. It can show federal-prison release information, but it is not a general pretrial or immigration locator. The U.S. Marshals Service manages many federal criminal pretrial movements and does not offer a general public real-time detainee roster comparable to ICE's tool. Use the federal case and USMS route when the county disposition points to a federal criminal writ or transport rather than ICE.

ICE custody

Federal civil immigration custody handled through ICE and ERO.

ICE detainer

A federal immigration-related hold or request that may lead to an agency pickup; verify the actual transfer with the sheriff.

BOP custody

Federal criminal prison custody, searched through the Bureau of Prisons locator.

USMS movement

Federal criminal pretrial or court-related transport managed through the Marshals Service and federal case route.

MODOC custody

Missouri state prison or community supervision, separate from federal immigration authority.

Confirm an ICE Detainee Release

An ICE release shown within the locator's recent window concerns release from ICE custody. It does not rewrite the earlier Clark County disposition and does not by itself show whether a court case ended. Record the exact federal status and date, then contact ERO if the result needs confirmation.

A federal custody exit may also be followed by another authority's hold. For that reason, avoid assuming unrestricted return to Clark County. Ask whether another agency received the person and continue the trail when the federal response identifies a handoff.

If the locator is silent after sixty days, preserve the county transfer sheet and use the ERO contact directory. For the local side, the Clark County Jail release route explains how to verify the county event and request its release record. The two records together are more reliable than a roster subtraction or current no-result.

Note: Confirm each custody change with the agency that created it, and never merge a county transfer date with a later ICE release date.