Find Foard County Detention Releases

Foard Detention Is Qualified

“Foard County detention” describes the Sheriff's arrest, booking-record, placement-coordination, and release-record function. It is not a claim that a currently operating county jail stands at a commercial directory address. The official Foard County Sheriff page names Sheriff Perry Shaw and provides contact details, but it does not identify a jail building, rated bed count, physical release gate, contract detention partner, roster, visitation schedule, or release policy.

Dated Texas Commission on Jail Standards evidence supplies needed context. The agency's incarceration-rate report listed Foard with zero rated capacity and an average daily population of three during its November 2020 through October 2021 measurement period. A separate February 1, 2021 report listed three Foard inmates housed elsewhere. Those numbers explain the records route. They are not today's occupancy, current contract, or annual release total.

Note: Historical official figures explain the workflow but do not identify Foard County's receiving jail or inmate count in 2026.

Where Foard Releases Go

A closed Foard booking entry can reflect several events. A receiving jail may physically discharge the person after bond, dismissal, time served, sentence completion, or another order. Another jail, warrant agency, TDCJ, ICE, or USMS may instead assume custody. A court may authorize release before the jail completes gate processing. Only a physical discharge into the community is a community release.

The Foard County release record should identify the placement or destination agency. The receiving-jail record should show the physical exit. If those records disagree, keep the timestamps and ask each custodian to explain its own event code. A bare “released” status is less useful than the release type, authority, and destination.

Confirm a Foard County Release

The Foard County released inmate search and records path begins with direct agency confirmation because no official local roster or recent-release feed was found. Use one person's identifiers instead of relying on a missing name.

1. Call the Sheriff's Office at 940-684-1501 and give the exact booked name, date of birth if known, and approximate arrest date.
2. Ask for the booking number, arresting agency, physical receiving jail, transfer date, and whether Foard coded the event as release or transfer.
3. Contact the named receiving jail. Request the gate date and time, release type or authority, and any later custodian.
4. Obtain the court docket, judgment, bond or release order, dismissal, sentence, and completion entry from the correct Foard clerk.
5. If the person moved into TDCJ, federal, or immigration custody, use that system's official locator and record channel.

A registered Texas IVSS-Counties release alert may corroborate a custody change if Foard participates. It is not a permanent release archive and does not replace a release-type record. A judicial order proves legal authority, but the receiving jail's discharge log proves gate processing. Together, they answer both the legal and physical questions.

Foard Sheriff Records Contact

The official point of entry is the Foard County Sheriff's Office. The reviewed page provides a postal address, telephone, fax, hours, and web contact form. It does not label that form as formal public-information intake or confirm a physical records counter. Call before attempting hand delivery or email submission.

The official Sheriff contact page is the source for these details and the web inquiry form.

The page confirms how to reach the agency, while its lack of a linked jail roster or receiving-facility name makes a direct holding-location question essential.

Note: The county courthouse address should not be described as the Sheriff's physical records counter without current official confirmation.

Request Foard Release Records

A written Texas Public Information Act request can seek existing booking and release documents. It cannot require the Sheriff to create a new 24-hour list, calculate facts the agency does not keep, or answer a questionnaire. Address a mailed request to Foard County Sheriff, P.O. Box 309, Crowell, TX 79227. Call first for a currently accepted email or physical-delivery address.

Identify the full booked name, date of birth if known, approximate booking period, and arresting agency. Ask for the booking number and time, charge and bond entries, holding facility, release date and time, release authority or type, transfer destination, later custodian, and booking photograph. Request electronic copies and an estimate before costs exceed a chosen amount. If another office holds part of the record, ask Foard County to identify that custodian.

Under Government Code Chapter 552, the office must handle a request promptly. The usual ten-business-day rule is a response or ruling deadline, not a promise that all records arrive within ten days. An active case, confidentiality law, safety concern, expunction, or another exception may affect disclosure. No Foard-specific fee for this record package was found, so do not borrow a deed, vital-record, or another county's fee.

Pair Court and Exit Records

The court file survives after a current roster entry vanishes. Felony records generally route through the Foard District Clerk. County-level misdemeanor files route through the County Clerk, while fine-only cases may be in justice or municipal court. Paula Moore serves as both County Clerk and 46th District Clerk at 101 S. Main, Crowell, but the shared contact does not merge those record sets.

Ask by court and cause number for the docket, judgment, dismissal, bond or release order, sentence, and completion or discharge entry. Then compare the order with the receiving jail's exit timestamp. An order may authorize release before processing finishes. Conversely, the Foard record may close due to a transfer when no community release occurred.

The County Clerk page and District Clerk page identify the local contacts. The 46th Judicial District spans Foard, Hardeman, and Wilbarger counties, but a Foard case record remains a Foard clerk request.

Follow the Next Custodian

If the Sheriff reports a TDCJ transfer, use the TDCJ inmate search while the person is currently imprisoned. The search accepts a last name plus first initial, a seven-digit TDCJ number, or SID, with optional identifying filters. It does not keep a persistent released or discharged profile. After state release, use TDCJ information and public-record channels, state IVSS, the Wichita Falls District Parole Office when supervision applies, and the sentencing file.

A federal route requires system matching. The BOP locator can show a past release date and `RELEASED` for many sentenced federal prisoners, though another custodian or supervised release may follow. USMS has no comparable public pretrial locator, so use the federal court and holding facility. ICE ODLS handles current and some recent immigration custody. A handoff to any of these agencies is a transfer, not proof that the person entered the community.

Release

Physical discharge into the community after the holding facility completes processing.

Transfer

A change of custodian while confinement may continue.

Parole

Conditional release after TDCJ imprisonment under state supervision.

Probation

Court-ordered community supervision, administered locally rather than by the parole office.

Is Foard County Jail Open?

Commercial directories describe a “Foard County Jail” building and publish conflicting addresses or capacity claims. Those pages are not enough to establish a current operating jail. The strongest official evidence located is older TCJS reporting that gave Foard zero rated capacity and showed its detainees housed outside the county. The current Sheriff page does not resolve the name of the present receiving facility.

That conflict is useful local history, but it must remain qualified. An old building can remain in maps or copied directories after its detention role changes. A historic capacity figure can also outlive a contract. Neither proves where a named person was held or released in 2026. Sheriff confirmation controls the current holding answer.

For the same reason, no precise gate, visitation process, mail address, commissary rule, property pickup deadline, or transportation instruction can be assigned to Foard County detention. Once the Sheriff identifies the actual receiving jail, use that jail's official page and staff for those facts. The physical jail controls gate procedures and retained personal property; the Foard arresting agency may separately hold evidence or other items.

Foard Photos and Property

No official Foard booking-photo gallery, publication policy, property-return procedure, or release-gate instruction was found. Ask whether the Sheriff or receiving jail created the intake image. A narrow PIA request can seek the existing photo tied to the booking number, subject to active-case and confidentiality rules. The Foard County Released Mugshots page explains each official image channel without treating a copied photo as a custody record.

For property, the released person should ask the physical holding jail what remained at discharge and ask the Foard arresting agency whether it kept anything. Do not rely on unsourced pickup hours, deadlines, authorization forms, or mail options. The current custodian's instructions control.

Can the Sheriff say only “released”? Ask a second question: released to whom or where? The answer separates a community exit from a transfer and identifies the next record source.