Understanding Foard County Releases
A release means that one custodian ended its hold over a person. It does not always mean the person walked into the community. The Foard County Sheriff's Office can release someone on bond, after time served, under a court order, or into another agency's custody. A transfer to a receiving jail, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ), the U.S. Marshals Service, or Immigration and Customs Enforcement remains custody, even when the person disappears from the first agency's list.
That distinction controls the search. The Sheriff's booking and transfer records explain what happened at the county stage. The physical receiving jail records the actual gate event. TDCJ handles a later prison discharge, while federal and immigration agencies maintain their own locators. A court order supplies the legal authority, but the jail log supplies the time of physical exit.
Foard County Release Types
The record should name the release authority or destination. Ask for the precise label rather than assuming that every departure was a community release.
| Record event | What it means | Next verification point |
|---|---|---|
| Bond release | The person leaves under bond conditions while the case continues. | Receiving-jail exit time and court bond order |
| Time served or sentence complete | The county sentence has reached its credited endpoint. | Jail time-credit sheet, judgment, and release log |
| Court-ordered release | A judge authorizes release, dismissal, or another disposition. | Signed order plus the physical discharge entry |
| Transfer | Another jail or agency takes custody. | Receiving agency and transfer date |
| TDCJ parole or discharge | A state prisoner leaves prison under supervision or at sentence end. | TDCJ release record, IVSS, and assigned parole office |
A bond release may have no parole or probation at all. Probation, called community supervision in Texas, comes from a court. Parole and mandatory supervision follow a TDCJ prison term and are handled through state corrections channels.
Fields in a Foard County Release Record
A useful request ties the discharge event to the correct booking. Identity, booking, housing, and disposition fields prevent a same-name result from being mistaken for the person sought.
| Field | What it shows |
|---|---|
| Full name and date of birth | Identity used for the booking, subject to lawful redactions |
| Booking or agency number | The record key that links arrest, housing, and release entries |
| Booking date and time | When the county custody episode began |
| Housing or receiving facility | Where the person was physically confined |
| Charge and bond information | The alleged offense and any bond recorded for that booking |
| Release date and time | When that custodian ended physical custody |
| Release type or authority | Bond, time served, court order, sentence completion, or other basis |
| Destination agency | Whether the event was a transfer instead of community release |
The court disposition and release log answer different questions. The Foard court file explains the judgment or order. The jail record shows whether and when the person actually left, and it may identify the next custodian.
Request Foard County Release Records
No dedicated Foard jail-record form, published release-record fee, or formal records email was found on the reviewed official Sheriff page. A written Texas Public Information Act request can be mailed to Foard County Sheriff, P.O. Box 309, Crowell, TX 79227. Call 940-684-1501 first if an email or in-person delivery route is preferred.
- Use the exact name, date of birth if known, and a narrow arrest or booking date range.
- Ask for the booking number, housing facility, charges, bond, release date and time, release authority, transfer destination, and booking photograph.
- State that electronic copies are preferred and ask the Sheriff to identify another custodian if it holds the requested item.
- Request a cost estimate before charges exceed an amount you choose. Do not invent a Foard fee.
- Save the request, delivery proof, response, and any notice that another office maintains the record.
Texas Government Code Chapter 552 governs the request. A governmental body generally must produce public information promptly, but if it seeks to withhold responsive information it ordinarily must request an Attorney General decision within statutory business-day deadlines. Charges, redactions, active-law-enforcement issues, juvenile confidentiality, expunction, and other law can affect the result.
Match Foard Release Records to Court Files
Paula Moore serves as both Foard County Clerk and 46th District Clerk at 101 South Main, P.O. Box 539, Crowell, TX 79227, with phone 940-684-1365. The shared official and contact point do not merge the records. A felony file usually belongs with the District Clerk, while county-level misdemeanor files are handled at the county level. Ask by court and cause number whenever possible.
Request the docket sheet, charge, final disposition, bond order, dismissal, judgment, sentence, commitment or release order, jail-credit entry, and any community-supervision discharge. The 46th Judicial District spans Foard, Hardeman, and Wilbarger Counties, but the Foard clerk remains the route for a Foard case file. The regional judge's office is not a replacement for the local clerk's record.
The official County Clerk page and official District Clerk page show the same officer and contact. That convenience makes the court label and cause number especially important.
Why Foard Releases Start Elsewhere
The best official local detention figures are structural and dated. A Texas Commission on Jail Standards report for a November 2020 through October 2021 measurement period listed Foard with population 1,200, rated jail capacity zero, and average daily population three. A separate February 1, 2021 report listed three Foard prisoners housed elsewhere. These figures are not current occupancy counts.
They explain why an address copied from a commercial directory cannot establish the current release gate. Old jail buildings and directory entries may persist after operations change. The Sheriff should identify the facility that physically held the person, and that receiving jail should confirm the exit or transfer. The sole local facility guide covers this Foard County detention function without claiming an unsupported operating jail address.
Find a Released Foard County Inmate
Start with the custody path, not a broad name search. Foard has no official public current roster or recent-release feed documented in the reviewed county pages, and a person may have been housed outside the county from the start.
- Call the Foard County Sheriff's Office and ask which jail physically housed the person for the booking date.
- Search that receiving jail's official current system, if it has one. A current match means custody, not release.
- Ask the Sheriff and receiving jail for the release log or transfer record. Match the booking number and dates.
- Check the Foard court file for the bond, dismissal, judgment, sentence, or release order.
- If the record shows a TDCJ transfer, use TDCJ channels. For a federal or ICE transfer, switch to the appropriate federal locator.
- If no online source resolves the event, send a narrow written records request to each likely custodian.
The Released Last 24 Hours page gives a same-day request method when a feed is absent. It does not turn a roster gap into proof.
TDCJ Search for Foard Prison Releases
The official TDCJ inmate search covers people currently incarcerated in a TDCJ facility. It accepts a last name with at least a first initial, a seven-digit TDCJ number, or a State Identification number. Optional fields include first name, gender, and race, and the last-name search is exact. While the person remains imprisoned, a result can show the unit, offenses, and Projected Release Date.
| Search field | Use |
|---|---|
| Last name and first initial | Required combination for a name search; surname matching is exact |
| TDCJ number | Seven-digit state corrections identifier |
| SID | State Identification number alternative |
| First name, gender, race | Optional fields that help separate similar names |
The TDCJ search page expressly limits the public tool to current inmates.
The screen is useful before release, but no result after a person leaves TDCJ is inconclusive. For completed release, use TDCJ's free email information service, telephone channel, public-information request, state IVSS notice, Wichita Falls parole office if supervision began, and the sentencing-court file.
Foard Release Lookup by Custody System
Each system answers only for its own custody. Moving between systems is a transfer until the final custodian records a community release.
| Person's route | Still in custody | After release |
|---|---|---|
| Foard arrest and receiving jail | Receiving jail's official current view, if available | Sheriff and receiving-jail release records plus court disposition |
| TDCJ prison | TDCJ current inmate search | TDCJ release or discharge record, IVSS, DPO, and court judgment |
| Federal sentence | BOP locator facility result | Past release date with location RELEASED, then court or supervision context |
| ICE custody | ICE Online Detainee Locator | Recent locator data, ICE ERO, and case documentation |
| Federal pretrial custody | Holding jail and federal court docket | Federal release order and physical custodian confirmation |
Texas IVSS-Counties replaced county VINE/VINELink on September 1, 2025. Users may search current custody without an account and register for call, text, or email alerts, but Foard participation must be checked in the live portal or through support at 866-268-8959. TDCJ prison and parole notifications use a separate state IVSS portal.
For a sentenced federal prisoner, the Bureau of Prisons locator accepts a register, FBI, INS, or DCDC number, or a name with optional age, race, and sex. A past release date paired with location RELEASED means the person is no longer in BOP custody. It does not rule out supervised release or custody in another system. The extract is updated daily and generally covers electronic federal records for people released after 1982. Older cases may require the National Archives or a BOP records request.
ICE's Online Detainee Locator uses a nine-digit A-number and country of birth, or an exact first and last name, date of birth, and country of birth. Its recent-release coverage is limited, and a missing result can reflect transfer, removal, delay, safety restrictions, or no ICE custody. U.S. Marshals pretrial custody has no public locator like BOP. In those cases, use the federal court order and the holding facility. Sheriff Perry Shaw's office can clarify whether the Foard custody entry ended with a federal handoff.
Getting Home After a Foard Release
Transportation planning begins only after the actual release address is known. The dated housing evidence means that a person connected to Foard may leave through an out-of-county jail gate rather than an office in Crowell. Ask the receiving jail for the expected exit address and timing before arranging a ride.
The TxDOT transit directory lists SHARP Lines, operated by Rolling Plains Management Corporation, in Crowell and includes Foard in its service area. It is a call-ahead lead, not a promise of on-demand jail pickup, same-day service, eligibility, schedule, or fare. Confirm the route directly after the custodian supplies the release location.
Foard Parole and Probation Verification
A TDCJ parolee associated with Foard is assigned through the Wichita Falls District Parole Office in Region V, not a Crowell parole office. The office is at 3100 Seymour Highway, Suite 118, Wichita Falls, TX 76301, phone 940-322-2721. Adult probation for Foard routes through the 46th Judicial District Community Supervision and Corrections Department in Vernon.
Neither office is a general released-person search. Use the court order and releasable TDCJ or CSCD records for durable proof. The separate Parole / Probation guide explains the file-review, supervision, warrant, and discharge routes.
Clearing Foard Arrest and Release Records
Texas expunction and nondisclosure are different remedies. Expunction provisions now appear in Code of Criminal Procedure Chapter 55A and can require covered arrest records to become unavailable after agencies carry out the order. Nondisclosure remains in Government Code Chapter 411; it restricts public release while allowing specified justice and governmental access. Neither remedy should be promised from the fact of release alone.
The TexasLawHelp Wichita Falls free legal advice clinic expressly includes Foard County in its service area and offers a recurring first-Monday general civil intake. It is a navigation option for asking about eligibility, not a promise of criminal representation, record clearing, or acceptance. Booking images held by third parties may raise separate correction or removal issues, and no official source supports a blanket promise that every copy will disappear.
Foard County Detention Release Point
The Facility Map contains one entry: the Foard County Sheriff's Office and county detention function. It is an arresting and records agency whose current housing site must be confirmed. No TDCJ prison, federal correctional institution, or ICE detention center was located within Foard County in the official sources reviewed.
- Foard County Sheriff's Office / Foard County detention function: ask the Sheriff for the receiving jail, then obtain both agencies' booking, transfer, and release entries.
State or federal tools become relevant only when a record shows that the person entered that system. This keeps a county booking, a state-prison discharge, and a federal release from being blended into one unsupported result.
Obtain a Foard TDCJ Release Record
When a Foard case leads to state prison, the public inmate search is only the first step. TDCJ's no-fee email information service asks for the full name and seven-digit TDCJ number. If the number is unknown, provide an exact date of birth, or an approximate age with the county of conviction. The service can return the TDCJ number, present location, conviction and incarceration offense details, prior incarceration history, and a projected release date. It does not provide photographs or Social Security numbers.
Telephone information is available at 936-295-6371 and 800-535-0283 for a current location or general state-prison information. Board prerelease review status uses 844-512-0461. After a favorable Board vote, 512-406-5202 handles release-processing questions when the caller has a TDCJ number, SID, or date of birth. A favorable vote is not the same as a completed gate release because required programming, release planning, detainers, and processing can remain.
For an existing historical release or discharge document, use the TDCJ Public Information Act request routes. The agency accepts its official form by email at PIA@tdcj.texas.gov, by mail at P.O. Box 4017, Huntsville, TX 77342, and by hand delivery at 2 Financial Plaza, Suite 600, Huntsville, TX 77340. Describe the record and date range precisely. If parole supervision began, pair that response with the Wichita Falls District Parole Office route and the sentencing-court judgment. None of these state channels replaces Sheriff Perry Shaw's record for the earlier Foard booking or the receiving jail's record of a county-custody exit.