Find Crockett County Jail Releases

Crockett County Jail Release Paths

Crockett County Jail is the county lockup operated by the Crockett County Sheriff’s Office. A person may leave after posting bond, receiving a personal bond, completing a county sentence, receiving time-served credit, or because a court orders release or dismisses a case. Each path can return the person to the community, although court conditions may continue. The physical jail transaction is the best source for the date, time, reason, and destination.

Departure can also mean transfer. A sentenced person may enter the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, while another case may lead to another county, the United States Marshals Service, or ICE custody. None of those movements is a community release. Ask whether the jail’s “released” value includes transfers and request any “released to,” destination, or receiving-agency field that the existing record maintains.

Confirm a Crockett Jail Release

The official Crockett County Sheriff page provides the jail’s contact and sends custody-status users to VINELink. It does not publish a county roster, rolling release list, or historical release archive. That makes direct confirmation important. Absence from any current list proves only that the person is not displayed there. It does not identify the event that ended the listing.

1. Collect the full legal name, known date of birth, booking or cause number, and approximate booking period.
2. Call the sheriff and ask whether the person remains at the county jail. If not, ask for the release type, time, authority, and destination that can lawfully be given.
3. Check VINELink Texas for a participating custody event, then verify any alert with the sheriff.
4. Use the correct clerk for the court order, judgment, sentence, or disposition. A court order and the jail-door time are separate events.
5. If the answer is transfer, continue with TDCJ, BOP, ICE, another county, or the actual receiving custodian.

Crockett Jail Records Contact

Sheriff Victor De La Garza’s office is the originating custodian for the jail booking and release transaction. No dedicated online release-record form, public fee schedule, or records-office hours were found in the official pages reviewed. Contact the office before visiting and ask which written-delivery method it currently accepts.

A narrow written request usually works better than a broad question. Identify the person and date range and request existing booking and release records, including booking date and time, release date and time, release authority or reason, bond data, destination or receiving agency, and the booking photograph if maintained and public. Ask for an estimate before copies are produced. Texas charge rules may permit labor, copying, programming, or overhead charges in defined cases, and an itemized estimate generally applies when estimated charges exceed $40.

Crockett Release Record Fields

A jail release sheet can tie a departure to the original booking. Exact field names depend on the sheriff’s jail-management system, so a requester should seek the maintained record rather than demand a new report. Useful fields include the booking identifier, legal name, booking time, arresting agency, charge, bond, release time, release type, releasing authority, and destination.

Release type

The recorded reason custody at this jail ended, such as bond, time served, court order, or transfer.

Release authority

The court, order, sentence calculation, or other authority behind the transaction.

Destination

The community or receiving custodian, if the system stores it.

Time served

A disposition or credit reflecting time already spent in custody; the court record gives its legal context.

The sheriff controls the transaction record, while the court controls its orders and judgment. A clerk can confirm that an order exists but cannot replace the jail’s record of when processing ended. Likewise, a newspaper summary may help locate an event but usually lacks the exact jail timestamp and booking fields.

Crockett Court Release Records

Felony judgments, sentences, revocations, and related filings generally route through the 112th District Court and District Clerk. County-level misdemeanor records route according to the actual cause through the constitutional county court and County Clerk. Fine-only or magistrate-stage material may sit with the justice court that handled it. Identify the cause and court before sending a request.

The County and District Clerk pages list Ninfa Preddy at P.O. Drawer C, Ozona, Texas 76943, phone 325-392-2022, fax 325-392-3742, and ninfa.preddy@co.crockett.tx.us. Request the docket sheet, bond or release order, judgment, sentence, jail-credit finding, dismissal, revocation order, or order ending supervision as relevant. The County Clerk’s linked iDocket is labeled for property records, not a general criminal-case search. Judicial records also follow court rules and other law rather than the executive-agency public-information process in exactly the same way.

Historic and Active Jail Addresses

Search results can mix two different places. The Texas Historical Commission Atlas has a landmark entry for the historic Crockett County Jail, and older directories may show Avenue D addresses. The active sheriff page lists the operational contact at 121 S. Highway 163.

Use the Highway 163 address for current jail business unless the sheriff directs otherwise. Confirm before traveling because the official page states neither lobby hours nor release-processing hours. Historical architecture material can identify the old building, but it cannot confirm a current detainee, a release transaction, or the place where records are accepted.

Crockett Jail Oversight Records

The Texas Commission on Jail Standards regulates county jails and publishes inspection and population material. Its records help establish that Crockett County Jail is the regulated county lockup. They do not identify individual releases and should not be presented as a person locator.

For a named release, stay with the event custodian. Use TCJS for facility-level oversight, the sheriff for booking and release, the court for orders, and the receiving agency for any later custody. This source hierarchy prevents a facility report from being mistaken for a release ledger.

A careful timeline keeps related events distinct. Booking begins the local custody event. A court may later set bond, enter a judgment, credit jail time, or issue an order. The sheriff records bond posting and the actual release transaction. A receiving agency records transfer intake. Those entries may share a date without sharing a timestamp or legal meaning. Ask each office for its own record when precision matters.

If two sources conflict, do not select the more convenient result. Preserve each value with its source and date, then ask the originating custodian for review. Full name alone is not enough to combine records. Use a known date of birth, booking or cause number, TDCJ or SID number, agency, offense, and booking period to resolve identity. When a public record omits a needed identifier, provide the identifier privately to the custodian rather than publishing an unsupported match.

After a Crockett Jail Transfer

A Crockett County felony commitment can lead to a TDCJ unit outside the county. TDCJ’s online offender search covers people currently incarcerated in its facilities, using name, TDCJ number, SID number, gender, and race. Former prisoners are excluded from that public form, so a no-match cannot prove discharge. For prior incarceration history, use TDCJ’s no-fee email information channel with enough identifiers.

Federal defendants may be held for USMS in a local or contract jail before entering BOP. BOP’s locator preserves many post-1982 records and may show a release date, but “Not in BOP Custody” does not answer whether state, local, ICE, or supervision authority continues. ICE’s locator covers current detention and may include some recent releases within its stated window. An ICE detainer or transfer means a new custodian took control.

Return to the full Crockett County released inmate search when the destination is unknown. It separates county, state, federal, immigration, court, and notification channels without treating one system’s no-match as a universal release.