Locate ICE Custody Changes

ICE Releases Serving Bandera

No ICE detention facility was identified in Bandera County. Immigration and Customs Enforcement uses a nationwide detention network operated through agency facilities and contractors. A person leaving Bandera County Jail on an immigration detainer may be transported outside the county.

The county event must be described as a transfer when ICE accepts custody. It is not a community release merely because the Bandera jail no longer holds the person. Ask for the county’s actual book-out time, transfer type, destination, and receiving authority before beginning the immigration search.

Search Current ICE Custody

The ICE Online Detainee Locator System, or ODLS, is designed to locate a person currently in ICE custody or held by Customs and Border Protection for more than 48 hours. It excludes people under 18 from the public search.

1. Use a nine-digit A-number and country of birth when available, adding leading zeroes if needed.
2. Otherwise search the exact first and last name with country of birth.
3. Preserve hyphens in a hyphenated name and use date of birth to narrow the match.
4. Record the facility and responsible ERO office for a matching result.
5. Confirm the result with the listed office and the Bandera transfer record.

Exact identifiers matter. Spelling, a recent move, processing, coverage limits, or age can produce no result even when an immigration case exists.

Read ICE Locator Results

ODLS is not a permanent release archive. DHS materials describe a public extract that includes current detainees and some people booked out within the preceding 60 days. The record may contain name, A-number, birth information, custody status, facility details when held, and the responsible Enforcement and Removal Operations office.

“Not in custody” can reflect removal, voluntary departure, conditional release, case resolution, or transfer to another authority. It is not a synonym for unrestricted community presence.

Bandera ICE Transfer Record

Bandera County Jail at 830-796-7759 is the primary source for the local handoff. Supply the full name, date of birth if known, booking number, and approximate pickup date. Ask whether a detainer or receiving-agency entry exists and obtain the exact destination.

A detainer can also concern someone who remains at the county jail. ODLS does not answer whether ICE has lodged a detainer against a person still held by Bandera. The county record resolves that question and prevents a premature conclusion based on an empty federal search.

Request Bandera Transfer Proof

Use the Bandera County Public Information Office when a copy is needed. Ask for existing booking and release fields: actual book-out time, release or transfer mechanism, authority, detainer information if releasable, destination, and receiving agency.

Texas Government Code Chapter 552 applies to county governmental information, subject to exceptions, confidentiality rules, and redaction. The office need not create a new explanation of why immigration custody occurred. A narrow date range and booking identifier help locate the correct record and reduce mistaken matches.

Contact the Responsible ERO Office

When ODLS identifies a responsible ERO office, use the official ICE field-office directory to confirm current immigration custody or the meaning of a recent book-out. ICE also publishes a Detention Reporting and Information Line at 888-351-4024, Monday through Friday except holidays, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Eastern, with language assistance.

Have the A-number, full name, country of birth, date of birth, and facility or office name ready. Avoid sending sensitive identity documents to unofficial contacts. ERO can address immigration custody; it cannot rewrite the Bandera booking or court record.

ICE Book-Out Is Not Freedom

The short ODLS book-out display requires careful language. Removal means the person left the United States under immigration authority. Voluntary departure has its own legal basis. Conditional release may place the person in the community subject to immigration requirements. Transfer can move the person into another form of custody.

A-number

The immigration identifier used for many agency records.

ERO

ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations, the office responsible for detention and removal work.

Detainer

An immigration request connected to custody held by another agency.

Book-out

An operational exit from an ICE detention record, not a complete statement of destination.

Only the responsible agency and case record can distinguish these paths.

Immigration Case Records Matter

ODLS supplies location and limited status, not the complete immigration proceeding. Case records and counsel may be needed to understand bond, removal orders, release conditions, or later hearings. A county criminal disposition and an immigration case are also separate.

The Bandera court file can explain the local charge or bond but usually cannot establish the later ICE outcome. Keep the cause number, A-number, and booking number separate so records from different systems are not merged.

ICE and BOP Differ

ICE civil detention is not BOP imprisonment. The BOP locator can retain many released federal-prison results after 1982. ODLS is focused on current detainees and a limited recent book-out window. A BOP register number and an immigration A-number may appear in different contexts and should not be treated as interchangeable.

A person can leave BOP custody and enter ICE custody. In that sequence, “Released” in the BOP locator accurately marks the end of BOP custody while ICE confinement continues. Search both systems only when the records support both paths.

ICE Custody Crosswalk

Begin at Bandera when the event began with a county arrest. The jail record shows the local exit and named destination. ODLS may show current ICE location or a recent book-out. ERO interprets immigration custody. Immigration case records supply legal context.

No one portal answers every row. A negative result must be followed by the record-holding agency.

Confirm Immigration Custody Changes

Preserve the ODLS result, retrieval date, A-number, named facility, and ERO office. Then pair it with the Bandera transfer entry and any immigration case record. If ODLS later stops displaying the person, the saved result helps establish what the interface previously reported.

Do not infer removal or community release from disappearance after the limited window. Ask ERO for the status and use an appropriate agency records process when a durable document is required.

ICE Network Contact Path

There is no local ICE facility address to provide because none was identified in Bandera County. The actual detention site and ERO office depend on the locator and transfer record. Bandera County Jail remains at 3360 State Highway 173 North, Bandera, Texas 78003, with jail information at 830-796-7759.

Call before traveling. A person can move between facilities, and public locator data may trail an operational transfer. Confirm visiting, property, legal-call, and records procedures with the operator of the current facility.

Match ICE Identity Fields

An A-number search requires both the nine-digit number and country of birth. Add leading zeroes when the number has fewer digits. For biographical searching, enter the exact first and last name and country of birth, then use date of birth to narrow the result. Hyphens should be preserved.

A Bandera booking number, state SID, and immigration A-number are different identifiers. Keep each with its own record. If the name search is blank, try only supported spelling variations and then contact ERO. Do not infer release from a failed match.

Understand the 60-Day Window

DHS privacy and records-schedule material describes an ODLS public extract that includes current detainees and people booked out during the previous 60 days. That limited display is useful for a recent custody change, but it is not an enduring immigration release ledger.

After the window expires, a former result may disappear. The disappearance does not reveal whether the person was removed, conditionally released, departed voluntarily, transferred, or reached another case outcome. Save the result while visible and obtain confirmation from the responsible ERO office or an appropriate agency record.

Preserve ICE Custody Evidence

Record the search method, access date, A-number, facility, ERO office, and exact custody wording. Pair those details with the Bandera jail release or transfer entry. The county record establishes the handoff; ODLS and ERO establish the immigration layer.

If the person later enters another custodian’s system, preserve that record too. A complete chronology names each agency and date rather than treating the phrase “not in custody” as the end of every legal obligation.