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Lincoln County Release Records

A release is the endpoint of one custody episode. It does not always mean a person returned to the community. Someone may leave the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office Detention Facility on bond, after time served, after dismissal, or when a sentence ends. Another person may leave the same building for court, TDOC, another jail, federal custody, or ICE. The Sheriff’s booking and release record should identify the event and destination. The court file supplies the authority behind bond, dismissal, sentence, probation, or transfer.

Lincoln County has no official public inmate roster or released-person archive. That absence makes direct verification essential. The detention line can answer a same-day routing question when staff may disclose it. Tennessee SAVIN can signal release, transfer, or escape. A narrow public-records request provides the durable local record. FOIL becomes relevant only when the person entered TDOC felony custody or supervision. Federal systems apply only when federal authority exists.

Discharge

The end of custody or supervision recorded by the responsible agency.

Time served

Credited confinement satisfied the ordered jail term, though another duty or hold may remain.

Parole

Conditional release from prison before sentence expiration, followed by TDOC supervision.

Probation

Court-ordered community supervision that may replace or follow confinement.

Detainer

A request or notice from another authority that may cause custody to continue after the first booking closes.

Lincoln County Release Types

The label matters because it determines the next search. Bond ends the local pretrial hold but not the case. A dismissal resolves the named charge or case, yet another warrant may still exist. Time served can end confinement while probation, costs, or another hold continues. Parole and probation place a person under supervision. A transfer is not community release. An ICE detainer can lead from county custody into federal civil detention.

Lincoln County Release Record Fields

A useful request identifies one adult and one booking episode. Ask for the booking or jail-register entry rather than “all records.” The resulting record should connect identity, custody dates, legal authority, and destination. Exact disclosure depends on what is maintained and what must be redacted.

The court record may add a docket number, amended charges, plea or trial outcome, judgment, jail credit, probation terms, dismissal, and later expunction activity. FOIL may show a photo, status, location, offenses, sentence information, parole-hearing status, and release information for a current or former TDOC offender. These are separate records, not interchangeable views.

Request Lincoln County Release Records

The Lincoln County Public Records Policy supplies the local Tennessee Public Records Act route. Address the request to the custodian for Sheriff or jail records. Tennessee citizens generally have access to nonexempt state and local records. The custodian may require proof of citizenship and a written form for copies.

1. Identify the adult by full name and add the booking date, booking number, or a narrow date range.
2. Ask for the booking/release sheet or jail-register entry and list the specific fields needed.
3. Request the booking photo or signed property receipt separately when either record is relevant.
4. Ask that exempt material be redacted and the remaining record produced.
5. Request a cost estimate before copies, labor, or outside costs are incurred.

Inspection is generally free unless law permits a charge. The state reasonable-charge schedule commonly uses $0.15 for a standard black-and-white page and $0.50 for a standard color page, while permitted labor and actual costs can add more. Lincoln County’s policy and the custodian’s estimate control the actual amount. If prompt access is not practical, Tenn. Code Ann. § 10-7-503 requires action within seven business days: production, a written denial with legal grounds, or an estimate of additional reasonable time. It does not promise completed production within seven days.

Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office Detention Facility is at 4151 Thornton Taylor Parkway, Fayetteville, TN 37334. The main number is 931-433-9821, the detention number is 931-433-3111, and the fax is 931-433-9558. No public records-office hours or release-desk hours were verified, so confirm the method before visiting.

Note: A narrow request tied to one booking is easier to locate, review, and redact than a demand for every record.

Lincoln County Release Record Retention

Online absence does not mean the record vanished. Tennessee’s sheriff retention schedule describes the jail register, including release date, as permanent. Census, movement, and booking logs have five-year schedules. Judgment and release orders also have five-year schedules. Identification files with photographs remain until death or a reasonable presumption of death, set at 100 years. The signed or witnessed receipt for property, valuables, and cash returned at release is permanent.

Retention is not automatic public disclosure. Juvenile, sealed, expunged, medical, victim, security-sensitive, and identifying material can be withheld or redacted. Tenn. Code Ann. § 40-32-101 provides several expunction paths, each with its own conditions. An expunction order can require removal or destruction of records within its scope. A missing record does not prove expunction, and no release should be assumed eligible without the court’s order.

Lincoln County Release Statistics Limits

TDOC Jail Summary Reports are monthly population snapshots supplied by sheriffs and jail administrators. Each reflects the last day of a month. It is not an admissions total, an annual release count, or a rolling release log. A snapshot may describe how many people were confined on its stated date, but it cannot support a claim about how many Lincoln County inmates were released.

The FY 2024–25 state county report identifies one inspected and certified local correctional facility in Lincoln County, zero decertified facilities, and 38 certified local correctional officers. It lists no TDOC facility operation in the county. Those figures describe local correctional infrastructure, not release volume. Tennessee Corrections Institute performs annual inspections under Tenn. Code Ann. § 41-4-140.

Property After Lincoln County Release

The Sheriff’s jail information states that Quality Correctional Health Care provides continuity of care, discharge planning, and coordination with community agencies. That is meaningful local release-planning context. It does not create a public medical-release record, and protected health information remains limited.

Property has a distinct paper trail. Tennessee’s permanent schedule includes a signed or witnessed receipt for property, valuables, and cash returned at release. Lincoln County does not publish a property-pickup process or an online method to correct such a record. Direct a focused question to detention or the records custodian. Ask for the receipt when the issue is whether property was acknowledged as returned.

Lincoln County Release Court Trail

The durable case trail depends on the court of origin. Circuit and Criminal records route to Circuit Court Clerk Lisa Simmons. Chancery records route to the Clerk and Master. Fayetteville and Petersburg municipal matters have separate city clerks. A fee-payment page is not a case disposition search, and no official Lincoln County name-based criminal case portal was verified.

The Tennessee court clerk directory helps identify the right office. Ask the originating clerk for the docket, disposition, judgment, sentence, bond or release order, jail-credit terms, probation or split-confinement terms, and later orders. The court file explains why local confinement ended. The Sheriff record establishes when and where that custody event ended.

Find Lincoln County Released Inmates

Start with the custody that actually ended. For a local jail booking, use the detention line, Tennessee SAVIN, a Sheriff record request, and the court case. For a state prisoner, use TDOC FOIL and reconcile status with release details. For a federal prisoner, use the BOP locator. For immigration custody, use ICE’s locator within its limited period. USMS has no national public released-person locator.

1. Match the person with name, birth date, booking number, TDOC ID, SID, or federal number where available.
2. Call Lincoln County detention at 931-433-3111 for the local booking’s end, timestamp, type, and destination.
3. Check TN SAVIN for a county custody-change event and determine whether it reports release or transfer.
4. Request the Sheriff release entry and the originating court’s order for durable confirmation.
5. Switch to FOIL, BOP, ICE, or the receiving agency when the record shows another custody system.

Can FOIL confirm every Lincoln County release? No. A person booked on a local matter may never enter TDOC’s felony system. FOIL is useful only for current or former TDOC custody or supervision.

Lincoln County TDOC Release Search

TDOC Felony Offender Information Lookup, or FOIL, accepts name, TDOC ID, or State ID searches and requires a visual or audio challenge. TDOC ID is also called the TOMIS number. Name search allows race and aliases as optional refinements. A same-name result is not enough. Confirm the identifier, photo when present, conviction county, offenses, and sentence data.

A result may show incarcerated, probation, parole, or inactive status, plus location, offense, sentence, hearing, photo, and release information. “Inactive” most directly points to a former TDOC offender, but it is not a universal synonym for community release. Read the status with the release detail. The official FOIL overview describes its coverage.

The official FOIL search screen shows why identifiers matter.

The name, TOMIS, SID, and challenge routes support a state search, not a county booking lookup.

Lincoln County Release Alerts

Tennessee SAVIN covers all 95 county sheriffs. Search a specific person by name and, if available, booking number. Read the reporting agency and custody status. Alerts can cover release, transfer, or escape. This makes SAVIN a timely signal, not a certified release record or court disposition.

Phone, text, email, or in-app registration may be available. Tennessee’s phone process uses a four-digit PIN followed by the pound sign to acknowledge an alert. An unanswered call may repeat until the PIN is entered or for up to 24 hours. If an event reports a transfer, follow the receiving agency. TDOC also participates in VINE, but FOIL remains the more durable state summary.

The official TN SAVIN page shows county coverage and alert access.

Its role is notification. The Sheriff release entry remains the local record of type, time, and destination.

Lincoln County Release Supervision Search

Parole and probation describe legal status after confinement, not the release event for every Lincoln County detainee. Parole is conditional release from prison before sentence expiration. The Tennessee Board of Parole makes that decision, and TDOC supervises the person afterward. Probation is imposed by a court and may replace incarceration or follow split confinement. The county release record and judgment establish when the confinement part ended, while FOIL and the supervision office describe what followed.

Lincoln County is grouped with Coffee, Franklin, and Moore Counties at TDOC District 50, 703 Lakeway Place, Tullahoma, TN 37388. Its phone is 931-454-1915 and fax is 931-454-1917. No Lincoln-specific reporting hours or walk-in process were published. Search FOIL first, then call for current instructions rather than assuming an office visit is appropriate.

An absconder is a person alleged to have stopped reporting or complying with supervision. It does not prove a new conviction. No official Lincoln County absconder or parole-warrant list was located. Use FOIL, District 50, and official court or warrant sources. A parole grant can also remain subject to plan approval or other conditions before physical release.

Lincoln County Release Search Routes

Search systems follow legal custody rather than the county connected to a case. This comparison prevents a county transfer from being mistaken for release and keeps a state or federal record from being used for the wrong person.

A BOP result marked RELEASED with a past date and no BOP facility means BOP custody ended. It does not rule out supervised release or another agency’s custody. ICE displays people released from ICE within the prior 60 days. USMS has no comparable public former-prisoner locator.

Lincoln County Federal Release Records

The Federal Bureau of Prisons locator covers federal inmates from 1982 forward. Search by BOP register, FBI, DCDC, or INS number, or by name with optional age, race, and sex. Results may show the person’s name, register number, demographics, release date, and location or status. A past date with RELEASED status and no BOP location establishes departure from BOP custody only. Court-ordered supervision or another agency’s custody may continue.

ICE’s Online Detainee Locator System accepts a nine-digit A-number with country of birth or a biographical search. ICE says it includes current detainees and people released from ICE custody in the prior 60 days. A local release to an ICE detainer is still an interagency transfer until ICE records its own later event. After that limited period, disappearance from the locator is expected and proves nothing by itself.

USMS manages many federal pretrial prisoners and transports, but it offers no nationwide public former-prisoner locator. Use the federal court docket, the actual custodial jail, BOP after federal commitment, or a focused USMS FOIA request. Each federal route answers only for its own custody. None replaces the Lincoln County Sheriff record when the question concerns the end of a local booking.

Note: Follow the receiving-agency field before searching federal systems; a geographic connection to Lincoln County does not establish federal custody.

Lincoln County Release Facilities

Lincoln County has one identified local correctional facility, while state and federal systems may receive or later release people connected to local cases. The links below preserve those distinct routes.

• Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office Detention Facility: local bookings, release entries, and transfers.
• Tennessee Department of Correction: statewide prisons and supervision, with FOIL as the public route.
• Tennessee Board of Parole: parole decisions, while TDOC supervises after release.
• Federal Bureau of Prisons: sentenced federal custody and released results.
• ICE Detention System: civil immigration custody and limited recent-release visibility.
• U.S. Marshals Service Prisoner System: federal pretrial transport and detention without a public former-prisoner locator.

A person can move between these systems. Always carry forward the exact destination or receiving agency from the Lincoln County release record.