Union County Three-Day Releases
The official Union County website does not publish a discoverable 72-hour release list, indexed jail roster, or release archive. No exact feed URL exists in the reviewed sources. The county also supplies no published cadence, retention window, display fields, or photo policy for such a feed. A list from another Union County or a commercial source cannot be described as the Mississippi Sheriff’s official record.
A useful three-day result instead comes from the Sheriff’s existing release log. State both endpoints and ask whether each timestamp is the physical release time or the time staff entered the event in the booking system. That distinction can matter when an exit occurs late on Friday but a record is posted later. Ask for the destination field as well. A person leaving Union County Jail for MDOC, another county, federal authorities, or ICE remains in custody even though the county stay ended.
The official county landing-page capture documents the absence of a public web release feed.
The public page is a general county portal, so it cannot answer who left the jail over a three-day span.
Request Union County 72-Hour Releases
Choose the range with care. A rolling interval runs backward exactly 72 hours from the check time. A date-based request might cover Friday at midnight through Sunday at 11:59:59 p.m. The second range changes length around the question being asked and may omit part of Monday. Use exact dates, times, and Central Time. If the purpose is to reconcile a weekend, say that the request covers the physical exits recorded during the full span.
- Identify the interval. Write the precise opening and closing timestamps and state whether the window is rolling or based on calendar dates.
- Contact the custodian. Call the Union County Sheriff’s Office at 662-534-1943 and ask how to submit a release-log request.
- Name existing data. Ask for an electronic release-log or custody-history export, not a new explanation prepared by staff.
- Request exit detail. Include booked name, booking number, booking and release times, release code, destination, court number, and photo availability where maintained and public.
- Check continuity. Compare SAVIN events, court entries, and any named receiving agency before labeling an exit as community release.
The Sheriff’s directory address is 300 Carter Avenue, New Albany, MS 38652. No official county records email, form, fee schedule, or records-unit hours was found, so the phone call should confirm the current delivery method. For only today’s activity, the Released Last 24 Hours route uses a tighter interval.
Note: Electronic production in the agency’s maintained format can make timestamp sorting and transfer review easier than paper copies.
Union County Three-Day Log Fields
Union County has not published a feed-field specification. These are the fields worth asking the Sheriff to produce from an existing three-day export. Request a code legend when a release type appears as an abbreviation. Keep charge fields separate from the final court disposition because an arrest label does not establish the case outcome.
| Field to request | Use in a 72-hour review |
|---|---|
| Full booked name and aliases | Helps separate people with similar names across the three-day list. |
| Booking number and booking time | Ties each exit to one custody episode. |
| Release date and time | Places the event inside or outside the exact requested span. |
| Release reason or code | Shows the jail’s recorded basis, subject to its code definitions. |
| Destination or receiving custodian | Separates return to the community from continued custody elsewhere. |
| Court or case number | Supports review of bond, dismissal, sentence, or transfer orders. |
| Photo availability | Indicates whether a booking image exists and may be requested. |
“Bond” usually means pretrial release while a case continues. “Time served” may apply to only one count. “Discharge” can end a specific state obligation, but another hold can remain. “Transferred” names a change in custodian and must have its own label. When the code is unclear, the court docket and destination field supply needed context.
Union County Weekend Release Timing
A three-day request can catch events that fall outside a same-day check, but it does not solve every timing issue. A court action, bond completion, transport, and the booking-system entry can occur at different times. Ask for the physical release timestamp where maintained, along with the event-entry time if the system stores both. If the range crosses a holiday, use timestamps rather than asking for “the holiday weekend,” since staff and requesters may define that phrase differently.
For one person, reconcile the jail entry with the court. Municipal Court can explain some New Albany misdemeanor matters, Justice Court handles many county misdemeanors and early felony proceedings, and Circuit Court handles felony prosecution. A signed order can explain why release was authorized. It does not automatically prove the hour the person walked out. The jail entry supplies that physical-custody detail.
MS SAVIN can also report a release or transfer event from a participating county booking system. Alerts depend on agency data entry and may arrive in a cluster during quick movements. Read the agency name and event time, then call the Union County Jail for the destination. If a transfer says MDOC, search the state system after intake posting rather than treating the county exit as freedom.
Union County Release Verification Chain
The first source is the jail that recorded the exit. The second should answer why or where the person went. For community release, that may be a bond or disposition entry in court. For a transfer, it is the receiving custodian’s record. If community supervision is possible, the MDOC Parolee Search and Union Probation & Parole Office can show that a person is outside an institution but remains under state authority.
| What the county record says | Next source | Safe conclusion |
|---|---|---|
| Release with community destination | Relevant court docket | County custody ended; the case or supervision may continue. |
| Transferred to MDOC | MDOC Inmate Search | Local jail custody ended; state custody began or is posting. |
| Transferred to another agency | Named receiving agency | Custody continued under a new custodian. |
| No match in the interval | Identity check and broader durable records | The requested export did not establish a release. |
For a named person outside the three-day window, the Union County released-inmate lookup covers jail, MDOC, VINE, court, BOP, and ICE routes. Historical confirmation should rely on durable jail and court records, not a current roster whose purpose is to show present custody.
Union County Release Archive Limits
Union County’s app-centered official site has no documented release archive or retention window. A name absent from the public page is therefore uninformative. Web display and administrative retention are different. The Sheriff may keep a booking or release record even when no county page exposes it. If an older record cannot be found, ask for the governing retention schedule or destruction authority instead of assuming deletion.
Under the Mississippi Public Records Act, a requester can seek existing electronic documentary material, subject to exemptions. Fees may recover actual costs, and an agency may ask for advance payment. Request an estimate, narrow the interval, and ask for segregable public parts if some fields are withheld. A written denial should cite the claimed exemption.
Note: A missing name is not proof of release, transfer, record destruction, or an error until an authoritative source resolves it.
Reconcile Union County Release Entries
A three-day export can contain exits with very different legal effects. Start with the release code, then match it to the destination and court number. A surety bond, cash bond, or recognizance entry usually means the person left pretrial detention while the case remained open. A dismissal entry should be checked against the signed court order because the jail code may refer to one charge while another booking basis remains. A time-served entry also needs the sentencing or disposition order to show which count received credit.
Transfers need their own review. If the destination says MDOC, search the state offender system by name and then by MDOC ID when assigned. Compare birth data, conviction county, entry date, and location. A short delay between the Union County exit and MDOC posting can occur during intake or data transmission. If the destination names another county, the receiving jail should have the next positive custody entry. A federal hold may require the court docket or U.S. Marshals contact, while an immigration destination calls for ICE follow-up.
Keep a simple evidence trail for every row that matters: the exact Union County request interval, the release-log wording, the source agency, the date obtained, and the record used to reconcile it. Label a SAVIN-only event as reported released until the underlying entry is obtained. Label a named move as transferred. If no match appears, recheck name spelling, aliases, suffixes, birth data, booking number, and case number before widening the search. This method prevents a three-day list from flattening bond, discharge, and transfer into one misleading category.