Locate ICE Detention Network Records

Garrett County ICE Custody Paths

An entry marked RELEASED in the Garrett County Sheriff’s Arrest Log describes the Sheriff’s public classification. It does not state the hour, reason, destination, or receiving agency. If local criminal custody ended because a person was handed to ICE, that event was a transfer between sovereigns. It was not a confirmed return to the community. Conversely, an ICE release does not settle the status of a state case, a federal criminal matter, or local supervision.

The reviewed official directories did not identify a dedicated ICE detention center at a Garrett County address. They also did not establish a current county contract to hold ICE detainees. A person taken into immigration custody may therefore be moved outside Garrett County and may change holding locations. The relevant trail is the ICE locator and regional ICE contact path, supported by the county release or transfer record when one exists.

Search ICE Detainee Records

The official Online Detainee Locator System is the correct public starting point for civil immigration custody. ICE accepts a nine-digit A-number with country of birth, or a biographical search. If the A-number has fewer than nine digits, add leading zeroes. The locator excludes people under eighteen from public results. Match every returned detail with care because spelling, spacing, aliases, and date formats can affect a search.

1. Gather the legal name, known aliases, country of birth, and A-number if it is available from an authorized record.
2. Search by A-number and country of birth first. Use the biographical option when the number is not known.
3. Compare the displayed identity and custody details. Do not select a person on name alone.
4. Record the date and time of the check, since ICE custody and location can change.
5. If the result is missing or unclear, use the ICE Baltimore Field Office path and provide precise identifiers.

ICE states that the locator covers current detainees and people released from ICE custody during the preceding sixty days. That short history window is useful but limited. A no-result can reflect an old release, a data issue, a spelling problem, an excluded juvenile record, or custody held by another agency. It is not proof of community release.

Biographical searching deserves a second pass when the first query fails. Try documented name forms and aliases separately, check the order of given and family names, and confirm the country-of-birth entry. Do not broaden the query until an unrelated person appears and then assume a match. When the A-number is available, the number route is usually the best identity control, but the country-of-birth field still has to match the record used by the system.

For the county side of the event, ask Garrett County Detention Center whether the departure was a release or a transfer and request an existing booking or release sheet when needed. The full county search and records-request sequence appears on the Garrett County released-inmates home page.

Note: Use at least two identifiers, and treat an empty locator result as a prompt for more checks, not a final custody finding.

ICE Transfer Record Contacts

Different offices hold different parts of a Garrett County immigration-custody event. ICE controls the federal civil detention record. The Sheriff controls its local booking, release, and transfer records. Maryland court records may explain the disposition of the local criminal case, but a docket is not a transfer receipt and does not identify each physical movement.

A focused Maryland Public Information Act request can ask for the existing booking and release record, actual departure date and time, release type or authority, status history, and receiving agency if the event was a transfer. Garrett County provides a public-information request form. The county contact is the Public Information Officer, c/o County Administrator, 203 South Fourth Street, Oakland, MD 21550, at 301-334-8970. A requester may also copy the Sheriff and ask the county contact to route the request.

Federal access is separate. Ask ICE for the immigration-custody information it can lawfully release. Privacy and law-enforcement limits may restrict details about another person. A narrow request with an A-number, full name, date range, and the exact record sought is more useful than asking an office to determine a legal result or create a new report.

Garrett ICE Release Scope

ICE detention is civil immigration custody, not a sentence in the Garrett County Detention Center. The county jail holds a mixed population that includes people waiting for transfer to another jurisdiction. That fact makes the destination question vital. A name can leave Garrett activity because local custody ended, while another agency’s custody began without a gap.

Do not use the Maryland DPSCS Incarcerated Individual Locator for this task. That state tool is for specified people currently held in parts of the Maryland correctional system. It is not an ICE locator, and it expressly omits people no longer in state custody. The BOP locator is also a different system for federal criminal custody.

Maryland VINE is also not a replacement for the ICE search. VINE connects several Maryland custody, court, parole, and probation sources, but the research did not establish it as a federal immigration locator. A Garrett VINE notice may document a local change while saying nothing about later ICE custody. Read the reporting agency on each event and move to the federal source once the local system no longer controls the person.

Garrett ICE Release Agreement Change

Garrett County once participated in an ICE 287(g) arrangement. Official county and Maryland sources report that state legislation ended that arrangement in February 2026. The Sheriff’s 287(g) update said legally appropriate coordination about impending releases would continue, while the Governor’s signing announcement describes the statewide change.

That history should not be presented as proof of a current Garrett detention contract, a dedicated ICE wing, or a present transfer in any individual case. Coordination about an impending release does not itself establish that ICE assumed custody. Only the event-specific county record, ICE record, or direct agency confirmation can support that conclusion.

Note: Historical participation in 287(g) does not show that a current Garrett County release resulted in federal immigration detention.

After an ICE Release

A locator entry showing a recent ICE release speaks only to ICE custody. Immigration proceedings may continue after release, and conditions or reporting duties may apply. The relevant federal case or immigration channel supplies that context. A local Maryland case can also remain open, and Garrett County Pre-Trial Services, Home Detention, probation, or another court order may have a separate role.

Keep the systems in order. First identify which agency had custody. Next identify the event, such as local transfer, ICE detention, ICE release, or return to another custodian. Then use the matching record for the date and authority. This avoids the two most common errors: calling any county departure a community release and treating an ICE no-result as a complete history.

Preserve the source date with each result. Dynamic locators can change, and the ICE history window is brief. A dated note should identify which search method was used, which identifiers were entered, and whether the result named a current location or recent release. If the matter later moves to another system, keep the older result as evidence of that earlier stage rather than overwriting it with a claim that one screen describes the whole custody history.

Detainer

A request or notice tied to another agency’s claimed custody interest; it is not itself proof of the final transfer.

Transfer

A move from one custodian to another rather than an unconditional release into the community.

A-number

An immigration identification number used in the ICE search and related records.

Community release

Departure from physical detention, which may still carry legal conditions or reporting duties.