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Livingston ICE Record Cross-Check

Keep the A-number private when sharing status with people who do not need it, but use it for the most precise official search. Record the McCracken transfer time, receiving-agency wording, ICE locator access time, and exact custody result. If the transfer is recent and no match appears, use the information line rather than concluding that the person returned to the community. Later release from ICE is a separate event from the earlier county transfer. A court order in the Livingston criminal case may explain the county hold, but it does not decide a separate federal civil immigration matter.

ICE Locator Release Scope

Use the ICE Online Detainee Locator only when a jail record, court file, or other official source documents immigration custody. Search with a nine-digit A-number and country of birth, or use exact name, date of birth, and country of birth. The locator covers people currently detained and certain people released from ICE custody within the prior 60 days, subject to limits and data delays.

The locator excludes minors under 18. No match does not prove community release. The identifiers may be wrong, a transfer may be too recent, or the record may fall outside public scope. No authoritative source identified Livingston County or McCracken County Jail as an ICE contract detention facility.

ICE Transfer Versus Release

An ICE detainer is a request for notice and custody for up to 48 hours beyond the ordinary release point so the Department of Homeland Security can assume custody. The county event and ICE event are separate. Ask McCracken for the release reason code, receiving agency, and timestamp. Then match that handoff to ICE.

Immigration custody is civil federal custody. It should not be confused with a BOP sentence or USMS pretrial custody. Each has a different search and contact path.

Confirm an ICE Release

Use exact identifiers and preserve the wording from each system. A county roster disappearance cannot establish ICE custody.

1. Obtain McCracken’s release or transfer entry and confirm ICE is named.
2. Search the A-number with country of birth when available.
3. Otherwise use exact name, date of birth, and country of birth.
4. Record the displayed status, location, and update information.
5. Call the ICE Detention Reporting and Information Line when a recent documented transfer is missing.

The information line is 1-888-351-4024 and operates weekdays excluding holidays, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Eastern. The Livingston County release search covers the McCracken and court records needed before the ICE step.

Get Livingston Jail Records

For a historical event before closure, contact the records custodian identified by Livingston County and describe the existing record precisely. Useful identifiers include full name, aliases, date of birth when appropriate, arrest date, booking number, and arresting agency. Ask whether older material has moved to archive and which Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives schedule controls it.

For a current Livingston arrest, send the physical-custody request to McCracken’s official records custodian. Ask for the booking summary and release portion, including booking and release time, release type or reason code, code legend, releasing authority, public bond fields, and receiving agency when the event was a transfer. A separate Livingston Jailer request can seek transport or routing records. The Livingston court clerk, not the closed jail, supplies court orders.

Release

An authorized end to that facility’s custody.

Transfer

A move to another custodian while confinement continues.

Disposition

The court’s outcome or action in a case, which is not always the release event.

Expungement

A legal process that can change the public availability of eligible records.

Livingston Jail Contact Record

The address associated with the continuing Jailer’s Office is not an active detention address. It is a routing and administrative contact. The office can help identify a destination and may keep transport, fee, or locally maintained records. It should not be described as a walk-in jail lobby or current inmate records desk.

The elected office survives Kentucky’s jail closure. Officeholders may change, so address a request to the current records custodian rather than assuming the named jailer personally processes it. For present confinement and release details, call McCracken County Regional Jail at 270-444-4730.

Note: Confirm the receiving office before sending a request, since Livingston transport, McCracken custody, and Livingston court records have different custodians.

Livingston Jail Closure History

The May 2005 closure is more than local history. It changes every current release search. Livingston still has an elected jailer who transports arrested people to another jail and takes detainees to court and appointments. The county page reports more than 1,100 inmate transports per year. Those movements explain why an administrative Livingston record can coexist with a McCracken booking and a Livingston court case.

Nearby Kentucky State Penitentiary adds another source of confusion. It is in Eddyville, Lyon County, not Livingston County. A Livingston sentence can result in placement there or at another DOC institution, but only the individual KOOL record identifies the actual state location. Never infer the facility from geography. Likewise, no federal prison or ICE detention center was identified in Livingston County. Those systems become relevant only when a federal case, register number, detainer, or transfer record supports the connection.

The closed-jail fact is the page’s distinctive local angle: the name survives, the constitutional jailer remains active, and custody takes place elsewhere. Each part produces a different record.

Livingston Bond Release Routing

Livingston’s official page says bonds are posted at the Livingston County Justice Center during normal business hours. After normal hours, a bond may be posted at McCracken County Jail. Property bonds can be completed only at the Justice Center and require judicial authorization. This location split reflects the same divide between case authority and physical custody.

Recognizance, surety, unsecured, cash, partially secured, and property bonds can all lead to pretrial liberty when the required authority is processed. Bond does not end the case and does not establish innocence or guilt. Another hold may also prevent physical departure after a bond is posted. Confirm the court order, ask the jail whether all holds cleared, and obtain the release timestamp. If the jail released the person to another agency, record that as a transfer.

A precise record request works better than asking whether someone “got out.” Request the bond posting event, release reason code and legend, releasing authority, timestamp, and receiving agency field. Those pieces distinguish community release from continued custody.