Detention Center Release Paths
The Texas County Detention Center is the county-custody starting point. It is operated under the authority of the Texas County Sheriff. A lawful departure can lead to several very different places, and the sheriff's record should preserve the date or manner of discharge or escape. A person may leave on bond, after time served, after a dismissal or other court order, or at the end of a county sentence. Those routes may place the person back in the community. Other departures are transfers, not community releases.
A sentenced felony detainee may be delivered to the Oklahoma Department of Corrections. A person may instead move to another county, the U.S. Marshals Service, the Federal Bureau of Prisons, or immigration custody. An escape or death also closes a custody episode in a wholly different way. The words in the Texas County jail register matter. Ask for the destination or manner field and any code legend that explains an abbreviation. Do not translate every departure into "released."
Confirm a Detention Center Release
No verified Texas County Sheriff webpage offers a current roster, release archive, or recent-release feed. The direct route is a narrow request for the jail-register entry. Use a full name and an approximate booking period. Add a booking or court case number when one is known. The request should seek the date and time kept by the agency, the manner or destination of discharge, and the committing authority. A precise request is easier to match than a broad demand for all records.
- Contact the Texas County Sheriff and identify the person and booking period as closely as possible.
- Ask for the jail-register date and manner of discharge, booking number, committing authority, and any release-code legend kept with the record.
- Read the Texas County criminal docket for a bond order, dismissal, judgment, sentence, revocation, or release-related minute.
- If the register names another custodian, continue with that system instead of treating the transfer as a community release.
The county-wide search and record sequence is explained on the Texas County released inmates home page. A court order can explain the legal basis for release, but the jail register is the better source for the operational discharge event. Processing may occur after the judge signs an order. Another hold can also delay departure.
Detention Center Register Fields
Oklahoma's jail-register rule supplies the strongest field inventory for a Texas County Detention Center release record. Under 51 O.S. ยง 24A.8, the listed public law-enforcement records include the prisoner's name, commitment data, description, and discharge information if those records are kept. The statute does not create a web feed, and it does not require staff to write a custom report.
| Register field | What it can establish |
|---|---|
| Prisoner name | The identity recorded for the county custody episode |
| Date and cause of commitment | When and why the jail received the person |
| Committing authority | The court or agency tied to the commitment |
| Criminal-offense indicator and description | The recorded basis and identifying description |
| Date or manner of discharge or escape | How the custody episode ended and, where kept, when it ended |
Ask for both date and manner when the agency keeps both. A short code may not be self-explanatory. The requester should ask for an existing code key rather than guess that a term means bond, transfer, time served, or release to the community.
Note: The statute identifies records available if kept, but it does not promise a Texas County online display or fixed archive period.
Detention Center Records Contact
The official contact is the Texas County Sheriff. The county page lists Sheriff Matt Boley and states that the sheriff has authority to operate the jail. Call before visiting because the page does not name a separate records counter or confirm that inspection occurs at the listed office. Posted hours also include a noon closure.
Sheriff Matt Boley
1102 S. Ellison
Guymon, OK 73942
Phone: 580-338-4000
Fax: 580-338-1621 or 580-338-1622
Email: matt.boley@texascountyok.gov
Hours: 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., closed at noon
The official sheriff page is also useful because its navigation shows no public release-search link. No sheriff-specific online fee schedule or guaranteed response time was verified. Ask for an advance cost estimate and request the existing electronic record when available. If a record or part of it is withheld, ask for the legal basis and any nonexempt portion.
The official sheriff source appears below. Its contact details support the direct records route, while the lack of a release link is why the register request remains central.
View the Texas County Sheriff source used for detention records.
The captured page points to the county office, not to an online roster or a published release list.
Detention Center Court Record
The Texas County District Court record can explain why detention ended. Search the OSCN case system by Texas County, name, or case number. Match the person through reliable case details. Useful entries include bond posted, an order of release, dismissal, plea, judgment and sentence, suspended or deferred terms, revocation, sentence modification, and completion entries.
The court and jail record should not be merged. A judge may authorize release before staff complete the discharge steps. A time-served judgment may coexist with another hold. Bond in one case may not clear a warrant in a second case. For that reason, pair the court order with the sheriff's date-and-manner entry. The online docket is a navigation source, not the official court record. The Court Clerk can provide an official or certified minute when a definitive disposition is needed.
- Bond
- Security or a promise that permits release while the case continues.
- Time served
- A sentence credit or disposition based on custody already completed.
- Transfer
- A change from one custodian to another, not a return to the community.
- Discharge
- The recorded end of a custody or sentence stage.
Detention Center Transfer Records
If the Texas County Detention Center register names ODOC, search the ODOC Offender Search by name and preferably by ODOC number. A facility status means state custody continues. A community-supervision status can mean prison confinement ended while parole, probation, or post-imprisonment supervision remains. A released or discharged status is state-system evidence, not proof of the earlier Texas County door time.
Federal paths require evidence of a federal handoff. The BOP locator serves sentenced federal custody and may show a release date or "Not in BOP custody." That phrase does not rule out ICE, state, county, or another authority. For an immigration destination, use ICE's locator and its official telephone fallback. The U.S. Marshals Service does not publish a comparable historical release roster. In every branch, keep the Texas County register entry because its destination points to the next custodian.
Note: A missing ODOC or federal result cannot replace a positive discharge statement from the authority that actually held the person.
Where Was Texas County Jail?
Texas County's courthouse history explains a detail that can otherwise confuse a records search. The official county history says the fourth floor of the historic courthouse once served as the jail. That floor is now used for storage because a new jail was built. The old courthouse role is local history, not a current detention address.
The distinction also explains why court and detention records sit with different offices today. The Texas County Court Clerk remains at the courthouse on North Main Street, while the Sheriff is listed separately on South Ellison. A court file documents legal orders and disposition. The sheriff's jail register documents the custody event. Neither address should be substituted for the other when asking for a release record.
No official source in the research gives a release door, waiting area, property-return rule, or family pickup point for the current detention center. Call before travel. This history does not establish present release hours or access rules, but it helps route an old courthouse reference to the right modern office.
Missing Detention Center Releases
An absent web result is weak evidence in Texas County. The sheriff's official page is not an inmate roster, and no official recent-release archive was verified. A person may have bonded out, transferred, completed a sentence, entered supervision, or had public access restricted by a lawful sealing process. Search the positive records that fit the custody path.
For an older Texas County Detention Center episode, provide a narrow booking range and request the archived jail-register or booking entry. Ask which retention schedule applies if the office no longer has the requested item. Oklahoma law does not establish one universal online display period for this jail. "Not online" is not the same as "not public," and "no longer retained" does not prove any particular release event.
A release alert from VINE can prompt follow-up, but it is not a certified discharge record. The safest match uses the sheriff entry for actual county discharge, the court record for legal cause, and the next custodian's system if the entry records a transfer.