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ICE Release Check

ICE custody is separate from a Washington County criminal release. If a person leaves Washington County Jail because of an ICE hold, pickup, or detainer, the county release may be a transfer into immigration custody rather than a community release. Use ICE ODLS for current immigration custody and confirm the county handoff with the sheriff or court record.

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ICE ODLS is the federal immigration detainee locator at locator.ice.gov. USA.gov explains that users can search by A-number or by name, country of birth, and date of birth. The tool is current-custody oriented, so it should not be treated as a full historical release archive.

Washington County Jail in Akron appears in older ICE/USMS-related facility materials, but those historical references do not prove current contract status. The careful local question is whether a specific Washington County release destination was ICE, USMS, BOP, CDOC, another county, or the community.

How to Check ICE Custody

  1. Ask Washington County Jail whether the person was released to ICE or another agency.
  2. Search ICE ODLS by A-number if known.
  3. If no A-number is known, search by name, country of birth, and date of birth as USA.gov describes.
  4. Compare identifiers and detention location carefully.
  5. If ODLS does not show the person, follow up through legal counsel, ICE field-office channels, court records, or the sheriff's release record as appropriate.

County Release vs ICE Transfer

A county record may say released, transferred, hold released, detainer, ICE, federal, or transport. Those words can mean the person left Washington County custody but remained detained under another authority. Request the sheriff's booking/release record if the release destination, date, time, or agency handoff matters.

Limits of ODLS

ODLS does not replace Washington Combined Court for criminal case status, CDOC for state prison, BOP for sentenced federal inmates, or VINE for custody-status alerts. It answers a narrower immigration custody question. If a person is not found, do not infer that there was no prior immigration contact or no county release.