ICE Detention Release Scope
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and its contractors use a national detention network. The official Fillmore County sweep did not identify an ICE facility in the county. It also found no county ICE detention contract in the reviewed local sources. This is a bounded research finding, not a claim that immigration custody can never follow a Fillmore arrest or transfer.
A county booking can end when another authority receives the person. If the Fillmore release or transfer data identifies ICE or another immigration authority, local custody ended through transfer. The next event may be continued detention, release under immigration conditions, removal, or another movement. The county roster will not preserve that later history, and its disappearance signal cannot name the outcome.
ICE Detention Custody Search
The official ICE Online Detainee Locator System, or ODLS, is designed to locate people currently in ICE custody and people who have been in Customs and Border Protection custody for more than 48 hours, subject to the tool’s rules. It is not a released-person archive. People under 18 are excluded from the public search.
ODLS supports two search routes. The stronger route uses the person’s exact nine-digit A-number and country of birth. Leading zeros must be added when the A-number has fewer than nine digits. The other route uses exact name, country of birth, and date of birth. Spelling and identity fields matter because a mismatch can yield no result even when a record exists.
- Open ODLS and choose the A-number route when the immigration identifier is known.
- Enter the exact nine-digit A-number, padding leading zeros where needed, and select the country of birth.
- When no A-number is available, enter the exact name, country of birth, and date of birth.
- Read the returned custody and facility information only within ODLS’s present-location purpose.
- If no result appears, check spelling and identifiers, then use the county transfer data and the appropriate ICE field office or legal case source.
A no-result page is inconclusive. It cannot distinguish release, removal from the United States, transfer, a processing delay, a spelling mismatch, or a person who is not eligible for display. Do not turn a blank search into “released” or “not detained.”
Repeat the search only after checking the source identifiers. An A-number should be treated as an exact identifier, while name searches are more vulnerable to spelling and order differences. Country of birth is required in both routes described by the research. If exact data still returns no result, the next step is an agency or legal source, not a guess based on the empty screen.
Note: ICE locator coverage and custody data are dynamic; this workflow reflects the official sources reviewed on July 24, 2026.
ICE Detention Release Signals
The best evidence depends on the event being tested. A positive ODLS result can locate current ICE custody within the tool’s coverage. A Fillmore County transfer entry can establish that local custody ended and name a receiving authority. Neither record, by itself, proves the person’s full path after the event.
| Signal | What it supports | Required caution |
|---|---|---|
| Fillmore transfer to ICE | County custody ended and immigration custody began. | It is not community release. |
| Positive ODLS location | The person is located in covered ICE custody. | Facility and status can change. |
| No ODLS result | No matching display was returned. | It cannot identify release, removal, transfer, delay, or mismatch. |
| Immigration release document | The stated immigration custody event occurred. | Read any conditions and date exactly. |
| County roster absence | The person is not on that Fillmore snapshot. | It does not identify the next custodian. |
“Release” and “removal” are not synonyms. Release ends detention under the terms in the immigration record. Removal is the legal and physical process of leaving the United States under immigration authority. Transfer continues custody at a different place or under another agency. These outcomes may all cause a prior locator result to change or vanish.
Processing time adds another limit. ODLS covers people in CBP custody only after more than 48 hours, subject to its rules, so an early search can miss a person who later becomes searchable. A later absence can have a different cause. Record the time of the query and the exact identifiers used. Those details make a field-office inquiry far more useful than a bare claim that the locator showed nothing.
ICE Detention Release Records
When ODLS cannot answer the question, identify the office and record that can. The ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations field-office directory is the official route for finding the responsible regional office. Use the location tied to the actual immigration case or custody event rather than assuming Fillmore County has its own detention office.
A useful inquiry starts with the full legal name, date of birth, country of birth, exact A-number when known, and the last confirmed custody location or transfer date. Ask about the correct process for confirming current custody or obtaining an existing release or transfer record. Personal and protected immigration information may not be available to an unrelated caller. Legal counsel and the person’s own documents may be the right routes for case-specific detail.
ICE Detention Network
Public locator: Online Detainee Locator System
Office route: ICE ERO field-office directory
Search identifiers: A-number and country of birth, or exact identity fields
Fillmore County facility: None identified
Fillmore County ICE contract: None found in reviewed official sources
No fixed local ICE address or phone was documented in the research for Fillmore County, so none should be invented. The responsible ERO office can depend on where the person is held and which office manages the case. Check the live directory before contacting an office.
The locator and field office serve different needs. ODLS is the first public location check. A responsible office can explain the proper channel for an existing custody record or a case-specific inquiry, subject to privacy limits. Neither route turns the Fillmore Sheriff into the custodian of later federal immigration data.
Note: Use the official ERO directory because a national detention network does not provide one Fillmore County facility contact.
Fillmore ICE Transfer Records
The Fillmore County record is the strongest starting point when the path began at the county jail. Minnesota Statutes section 13.82, subdivision 2 makes core transfer facts public at the originating agency: date, time, legal basis, and the receiving person or agency. Those fields can establish whether the county event was an ICE transfer instead of a community release.
Call the Fillmore County Jail at 507-765-3874 and identify the booking. If the answer does not supply enough detail, begin at the county data privacy request hub. Ask for the existing public release or transfer entry tied to the full name, date of birth, booking number, or MNI. A request should seek the agency’s existing data, not ask it to investigate later immigration events.
The county record ends at its own custody boundary. ICE controls the later immigration custody record. Court records may add the local criminal-case disposition, but they do not prove the person’s present immigration location. The Fillmore County released inmate search and records route provides the wider county workflow when the receiving authority is not yet known.
ICE Detention Release Boundaries
The BOP and ICE locators answer different questions. BOP covers federal prison custody and retains records from 1982 forward. Its “Released” or “Not in BOP Custody” label means only that BOP custody ended. ICE ODLS is mainly a current immigration detention locator and is not a comparable historic release list. A person can leave BOP and enter ICE custody, so both statements may be true at once.
Minnesota systems have their own limits. The Fillmore jail roster is a current county snapshot. Minnesota VINE covers county jails and detention events. MN DOC Offender Search covers people under Minnesota corrections jurisdiction, while Minnesota Haven handles DOC notifications. None of them should be used as a substitute for an ICE custody record.
- A-number
- An immigration identification number used in the strongest ODLS search route.
- Detainer
- A request or notice tied to another authority; it is not itself proof that a later transfer occurred.
- Transfer
- Movement from one custodian to another without community release.
- Removal
- An immigration process distinct from release from detention.
- No result
- An inconclusive locator outcome that can have several causes.
No official local source identified an ICE contract, detention site, routine ICE release time, release exit, transport route, or local immigration release archive. Those negative findings should not be filled with assumptions. Confirm the county event, then follow the exact agency named in the transfer record.
State-prison release and immigration detention may also occur in sequence. An MN DOC result can document state incarceration or supervision, but it cannot prove ICE status. Minnesota Haven handles DOC notifications, while ODLS addresses its own federal custody scope. Each handoff needs a transfer or release record from the agency that made it.