Check ICE Release Status

Levy ICE Transfer Records

A county release and a community release are not the same event. LCSO can end a booking because another authority assumes custody. When the release or movement record names ICE, the person has left the Levy County Sheriff’s Office Detention Bureau, but civil immigration detention may continue. The LCSO final release date establishes the end of that county custody episode. The event code, destination, and receiving authority establish what happened next.

Ask the Detention Bureau for the booking movement event, exact date and time, code description, destination, and any public hold or detainer field. Then search the ICE Online Detainee Locator System. A current ICE result and a county transfer event form a coherent sequence. If ODLS says recently released, identify what ICE custody ended and corroborate the date. If there is no result, do not recast the county transfer as a community release.

Search ICE Detainee Records

ODLS offers an A-number route and a biographical route. An A-number is the immigration identifier. The search requires nine digits, so add leading zeroes when needed, and pair it with the person’s country of birth. The name route requires the exact biographical details shown by the interface. Variations in spacing, hyphens, order, or transliteration can block a match.

1. Obtain the exact name, country of birth, and nine-digit A-number when lawfully available.
2. Search by A-number and country of birth first because the identifier is more precise.
3. Try the biographical route with the exact spelling used in immigration records if needed.
4. Read whether the result describes current custody or a recent release.
5. When no result appears, contact the appropriate ERO field office and provide the identifiers without publishing them.

The ICE locator scope explanation documents the system’s purpose and limits.

The locator is a current and limited recent-release tool, not a complete county release archive. Use the county record for the LCSO event and ICE for the receiving custody stage.

ICE Release Search Limits

ICE describes ODLS as covering people currently in ICE custody and, in its attorney resource material, people released from ICE custody within the last 60 days. People under 18 are excluded from the public locator. A no-result may reflect an age restriction, spelling or country mismatch, a new intake not yet visible, a transfer, or the end of the recent-release window. It is not conclusive proof that ICE never held the person.

The locator also does not explain every immigration case event. It is a custody tool. Immigration court information, removal proceedings, bond, and legal case documents have separate sources. A result showing release from ICE custody does not by itself say where the person went or whether another authority took custody. Ask ERO for current status when the public display is unclear.

Save the exact spelling, search route, date checked, and wording of any result. Those details help ERO resolve a later question and make clear which public status was visible at that time. Do not post an A-number or other sensitive identifier in a public county request. Give LCSO only the information needed to locate its own booking event, and provide immigration identifiers privately to ICE.

A-number

A unique immigration identifier used by ODLS, formatted as nine digits for search.

Detainer

A request or notice connected to another authority’s custody and possible handoff.

ERO

ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations, the component handling immigration custody and field-office confirmation.

Transfer

A change of custodial agency or facility, not release into the community.

Levy ICE Release Facility Limits

No ICE detention facility in Levy County was verified through the official sources reviewed. No current LCSO detention-services contract was verified either. ICE Detainee Locator is therefore a system page, not a profile of a local building. Do not send someone to the Levy jail expecting ICE visiting, mail, bond, or release-desk services after the receiving authority has taken custody.

ODLS may identify a detention site. Use the current ICE facility or ERO contact information shown for the case. Facilities and field-office responsibilities can change, so confirm before travel. The county Sheriff can explain its own movement event, but it cannot establish current immigration custody once the handoff is complete.

Likewise, the Florida Department of Corrections and the Federal Bureau of Prisons are not alternate ICE locators. Search each only when the movement record identifies that custody system.

Request Levy Transfer Proof

The county movement record is essential when the public Levy result supplies only a final release date. Submit a focused request through the LCSO records portal. Identify the person and booking, then ask for the release or movement event, exact timestamp, event code and description, destination or receiving agency, and releasable hold or detainer fields. Avoid asking LCSO to explain the immigration case, which is outside its record role.

For same-day status, the Detention Bureau can answer whether the person remains in county custody and may identify a transfer. A written event is better for a durable timeline. If the record says ICE, use ODLS and ERO. If it says USMS, BOP, FDC, or another county, switch to that actual receiving system. The Levy County release lookup path provides the broader cross-system sequence.

Florida public-record law may permit redaction of protected data. Ask for releasable fields and let the custodian state the applicable exemption. An absent public field should not be filled with assumptions about nationality, status, or destination.

Historical Levy ICE Release Agreement

A 2019 Warrant Service Officer agreement between LCSO and ICE documents a historical local handoff process. It described how a scheduled criminal release could become an ICE custody transfer. Under those terms, continued physical presence at LCSO was limited to no more than 48 hours absent a reimbursable agreement.

The agreement is evidence of how a past Levy handoff could work. It is not proof that the program remains active in 2026 or that the same terms govern a current booking. Verify present participation and request the actual movement record before making a current claim. Even under the historical process, the key point remains: ending county criminal custody could begin ICE custody rather than result in release to the community.

This distinction also protects against reading an old agreement as a standing facility contract. The project’s official-source sweep did not verify a current Levy ICE detention center or current detention-services contract.

Separate ICE Release From BOP

ICE civil immigration detention, BOP federal prison custody, and USMS federal pretrial or court custody are separate systems. BOP’s locator can show a past federal prison release date. A person might then transfer to ICE, but the BOP result alone cannot show current immigration custody. USMS has no comparable public historical locator, so court and agency records play a larger role.

For the county stage, the Levy County Sheriff’s Office led by Sheriff Bobby McCallum controls the LCSO movement record. FDC controls Florida prison and state supervision records, while FCOR decides parole and specified Commission release matters. Neither FDC nor FCOR can confirm current ICE custody. ODLS and ERO remain the correct immigration sources after an ICE handoff.

A Levy booking can also end in transfer to FDC after a state sentence. That event belongs in the FDC offender record, not ODLS. Read the county destination first and choose the matching system. If the destination is missing, request it. Searching every locator without a custody sequence can produce same-name errors and a false narrative.

Confirm ICE Release With ERO

When ODLS cannot resolve the record, use the current ICE ERO contact path. Supply the exact name, A-number when known, country of birth, date of birth, and the county transfer date privately to the responsible office. Ask whether ICE presently holds the person, whether a transfer occurred, or whether ICE custody ended within the recent period. ERO confirmation addresses the immigration custody stage. LCSO remains the source for the earlier Levy County movement event.

Keep a simple timeline: last confirmed LCSO custody, county transfer time, first confirmed ICE custody, later ICE transfer, and ICE release if one occurred. This avoids merging two agencies’ dates. If ICE identifies another detention facility, verify contact and visitation information from the current official facility directory before traveling. Do not rely on an archived contract, an old facility list, or a same-name result.

Note: Current agency records should always outrank an old facility list, archived agreement, or unsupported claim about where a person went.