Find Union County Jail Releases

Union County Jail Release Paths

Union County Jail is the county custody facility operated by the Union County Sheriff’s Office, or UCSO. A person can leave after posting bond, under a court order, after receiving credit for time served, or upon completing a county sentence. Those exits may return the person to the community. Yet the same jail doorway can mark a transfer to the Florida Department of Corrections, another jail, ICE, or a different detaining authority. A transfer is continued custody, not a community release.

The release entry is therefore more useful than absence from any list. Ask for the release type, release authority, date and time, and receiving agency or destination. If the record states bond or recognizance, the court case may remain open. If it states time served, the judgment and sentence show the credit behind that result. If it names FDC or another agency, continue the search in that agency’s system.

Confirm a Union Jail Release

No official UCSO desktop roster or public recent-release feed was verified in the project research. Start with direct custody confirmation rather than a guessed online list. The sheriff says the jail participates in V.I.N.E.S., Florida’s victim information and notification network. VINE can report a contributed custody event, but it is not a certified release record and a transfer alert must not be read as release.

1. Confirm that Union County Jail, not an FDC prison with a Union County address, was the last known custodian.
2. Call UCSO at 386-496-2501 and ask whether the person remains in county custody. If not, ask whether the exit was a community release or transfer.
3. Check VINELink for the matching person and read the exact agency, event, and status wording.
4. Request the existing booking and release record under Chapter 119, including the release authority and destination.
5. Match the booking or case number with the Union County clerk’s criminal disposition or order.

Use a full name, date of birth if needed, booking or case number, and an estimated custody date. A narrow identity set reduces the risk of mixing two people with similar names. For broader search and record context, the Union County released inmates search explains how county, state, federal, and court channels divide responsibility.

Union Jail Records Contact

The UCSO Records Unit is the source for the county booking and release record. It accepts requests by phone, in person, and by mail. The office asks requesters to provide useful identifiers, such as the person’s name, case number, event date or time, incident location, or deputy. Exempt material can be redacted, but the nonexempt remainder may still be available.

A mailed request needs a self-addressed stamped envelope, enough postage, and payment for necessary copy charges. UCSO links a fee schedule, but the current amount should be confirmed before sending payment. Ask for an estimate before a request causes a special service charge. Electronic copies may be requested when the record exists in that form.

Union Jail Chapter 119 Records

Florida Chapter 119 governs access to nonexempt public records. Section 119.07 calls for inspection and copying at reasonable times and a prompt, good-faith response. It does not require UCSO to create a new dashboard, calculate a custom answer, or write a narrative. Phrase the request around an existing booking record, release entry, commitment-and-release list, or jail-management report.

For one person, request booking date and time, release date and time, release type or authority, receiving agency or destination, nonexempt charge and bond fields, and the booking photograph if maintained. If a part is withheld, ask for the nonexempt balance and the statute supporting each redaction. Medical details, protected victim information, juvenile material, sealed or expunged matters, and other exempt data may not be produced.

Union Jail Court Record Check

The Union County Clerk record can resolve questions that a release line cannot. Circuit Court handles felony criminal matters. County Court handles misdemeanors and criminal traffic matters that can result in incarceration. Search the correct division for a bond order, release-on-recognizance order, dismissal, plea, judgment and sentence, jail-credit calculation, probation order, or order ending supervision.

The Union County court-record search offers an anonymous public gateway after its disclaimer. A portal result is useful for locating the case, but it is not itself a certified legal document. The clerk can supply the official record and can be reached at 386-496-3711. Match the booking date, charge, case number, and identity before linking a jail event to a docket.

Release record

The jail’s account of when and how custody ended or moved.

Disposition

The court’s outcome or procedural action in the criminal case.

Detainer

A request or legal basis for another authority to take or continue custody.

Union County Jail Custody

UCSO describes the jail as a 36-bed facility holding convicted and unconvicted people in felony and misdemeanor matters. Capacity is not a release count. It says nothing about yearly turnover, average stay, or how many people left on a given day. The small scale also does not change the need to distinguish release from transfer.

The jail stands on the north side of the courthouse in Lake Butler. Its physical location is 50 NW 1st Street, while public-record work is routed to Room 102 at 55 West Main Street. This distinction helps prevent a request from being sent to a secure custody entrance when it belongs with Records.

Union Jail History and Releases

UCSO’s history places the original county jail around 1922 and the brick courthouse around 1936. The agency says a new jail replaced the old one by 1950, followed by renovations as Union County grew. These dates provide local context, but they do not imply that each part of the current facility has remained unchanged since the mid-century replacement.

The history also explains why several justice functions cluster around the Lake Butler courthouse. Custody, sheriff records, and clerk records are close in place while remaining distinct in law and purpose. A release inquiry may need all three: the jail for the physical event, Records for a copy, and the clerk for the order or disposition.

Union County Release Geography

Union County combines this 36-bed local jail with a major FDC reception and medical complex and Union Correctional Institution. That mix creates an unusual search trap. A person may be described as held “in Union” while the actual operator is FDC, or may leave an RMC unit only to enter permanent state placement. The facility name, operator, booking number or DC number, and custody layer should appear beside any status claim.

Use UCSO and the clerk for Union County Jail. Use FDC’s released-inmate, incarceration-history, and supervision records for RMC or Union CI. If UCSO says the person was transferred to FDC, the county release record documents the handoff, not freedom from custody. Continue with the statewide record until it identifies an actual release, discharge, parole, conditional release, or sentence expiration.

Union Jail VINE Boundaries

VINE is valuable because the sheriff expressly documents local participation. It can support a specific-person check and an automated notice when a contributed event occurs. Still, the wording controls. “Transfer,” “out to court,” and “release” describe different events. Feed timing, identity matches, and agency updates can also affect what appears.

When immediate certainty matters, pair the VINE notice with a direct UCSO call. For a durable record, request the booking and release entry. Florida VINE can be reached at 1-877-846-3435 around the clock. The notification service is not a bulk list of everyone released today and does not replace the clerk’s record of what happened in court.