Locate ICE Custody Releases

ICE Detention Release Paths

ICE can receive a person after local, state, or federal custody when case-specific authority supports the handoff. The immigration detention event is separate from the Kanabec booking and from any criminal court case. ICE may keep the person detained, transfer the person among facilities, or release the person from ICE custody under the applicable immigration process. The public locator addresses only part of that chain.

No official evidence was found that Kanabec County operates an ICE facility, holds a 287(g) agreement, or contracts jail beds to ICE. Roster disappearance must not be turned into an immigration claim. Use ICE only when a detainer, jail or court record, family information, or another case-specific fact points to immigration custody.

Search an ICE Detention Release

The ICE Online Detainee Locator offers two main search paths. The strongest uses the exact nine-digit Alien Registration Number, or A-number, and country of birth. Add a leading zero to an eight-digit A-number. The alternate search uses exact first name, last name, date of birth, and country of birth. Exact spelling and identity data matter.

1. Choose the A-number search when the identifier and country of birth are known.
2. Enter all nine digits, adding a leading zero to an eight-digit number.
3. Otherwise use exact name, birth date, and country of birth.
4. Read the returned custody or recent-release information exactly as displayed.
5. If no result appears, check spelling and identifiers, then contact the proper ERO field office.
6. Reconcile any ICE result with the Kanabec release-to-agency record and the underlying court or immigration documents.

Children under 18 do not appear in ODLS. A miss can reflect spelling, data lag, transfer, exclusion, or the passage of time after release. It is not proof that ICE never held the person.

ICE Recent Release Window

ICE guidance says ODLS includes people currently detained and certain people released from ICE custody during the preceding 60 days. That creates a limited recent-release path that differs from Kanabec County’s current-only jail search. The ICE window is not a permanent archive, and it should not be advertised as one.

Record the exact status and retrieval time. Do not infer why ICE released a person or what terms apply from a compact locator result. Those questions belong to the case record and authorized agency channels.

Note: The 60-day period concerns certain ICE releases, while Kanabec publishes no 24-hour, 72-hour, or former-inmate release archive.

ICE St. Paul Field Contact

Kanabec County falls within the St. Paul Enforcement and Removal Operations field-office area. The office is the researched official contact when ODLS cannot resolve a case connected to Kanabec. It is not a Kanabec jail and should not be listed as the physical detention site unless the individual record says so.

Provide the exact name, date of birth, country of birth, A-number when known, and last known custodian. Ask for the correct public locator or case channel. Do not send a speculative inquiry based only on disappearance from the Kanabec locator. Establish a reason to believe ICE is involved first.

Kanabec Jail to ICE Transfer

The Kanabec current-inmate detail can show holds and a holding agency when populated. If a public record identifies ICE as the receiving authority, request the actual county departure date and time, public disposition, releasing authority, and destination field. That record closes the local event. Continue in ODLS for current or recent ICE status.

Kanabec Jail Housing at 320-679-8402 is available 24/7 for a narrow custody question. Sheriff Records at 320-679-8418, or Sheriffrecords@co.kanabec.mn.us, handles the durable booking and release record. Staff need not create a new explanation. Ask for existing fields and request the statutory basis for any redaction.

The Kanabec County Jail release page explains how to preserve the county booking identifiers and distinguish community release from any receiving-agency transfer. ICE should be the next step only when that evidence points here.

ICE Release Versus Other Custody

An ODLS release result answers whether ICE custody ended within the displayed recent period. It does not establish that a state, local, or federal criminal custodian did not receive the person next. Conversely, a BOP release may be followed by ICE custody, and a county release-to-agency event may begin it. Trace each handoff as a separate event.

The BOP Locator covers sentenced federal prison custody. USMS manages federal pretrial prisoners and has no public historical released-person search. MNDOC covers Minnesota state prison and supervision jurisdiction. County jails use their own rosters and release records. Minnesota VINE covers county jails but not MNDOC prisons and is not the ICE locator.

Detainer

A request or legal basis that may affect release and route a person to another authority.

Handoff

The actual transfer of custody between agencies.

ICE release

The end of ICE detention, which does not answer every other system’s status.

Community release

A departure from physical detention rather than a transfer to another custodian.

ICE Locator Identity Checks

Name variation is a common reason for a failed exact search. Immigration and jail systems may format compound surnames, spacing, or aliases differently. Start with the identifier when available. Compare date and country of birth and never join two records on name alone. The Kanabec booking number does not replace an A-number because the systems issue different identifiers.

ODLS excludes children under 18. Records can also lag or leave the recent-release window. If a person was once known to be in ICE custody but no longer appears, preserve any old facility, A-number, notice, and release date. Contact the field office rather than assuming release, removal, or transfer. Each is a different outcome.

When the public record is unclear, a legal representative may have access to case-specific channels that are not general public search tools. The public-facing conclusion should remain limited to what ODLS and the available agency records actually say.

ICE Release Record Limits

ODLS is a status locator, not a certified historical release record. A durable confirmation may require the immigration case record, release paperwork held by the person, an authorized agency response, or the prior custodian’s handoff record. Privacy and safety limits can restrict what officials disclose to a third party.

No public Kanabec evidence supports claiming that the county jail has an ICE contract or 287(g) program. That negative research finding matters. It prevents a generic immigration section from becoming an invented local practice. Use the St. Paul ERO contact because it is the researched field office for the area, not because it proves any named person was sent there.

Describe each verified boundary in plain terms: left Kanabec custody, entered ICE custody, remained detained, or was released from ICE custody. Do not collapse those stages into one release date. Keep arrest, criminal charge, immigration detention, transfer, release, and later supervision distinct.

ICE Detention Transfer Records

ICE detention can involve movement between facilities, and ODLS may reflect a current location without giving a full historical route. A prior county or federal booking record can show when the sending custodian closed its event. The receiving immigration record must then confirm the next stage. If another ICE facility appears, treat the change as an internal transfer unless an affirmative release event says otherwise.

Keep the A-number, exact name format, country of birth, last known facility, sending-agency event, and retrieval date together. These bridge fields reduce false matches and help the St. Paul office route a question. A county booking number is still useful for the Kanabec record, but it is not interchangeable with the federal immigration identifier.