Check Davidson County ICE Custody

Davidson ICE Custody Paths

ICE custody is separate from DCSO, TDOC, BOP, and USMS custody. Each agency records the end of its own episode. A person can therefore have a populated DCSO release date and still remain detained after transfer to immigration authorities. The county record should show the release type, disposition, or receiving agency when that information is recorded.

The ICE locator becomes the next public source after a documented transfer. It can identify an ICE detention facility or custody result, but it does not explain the Davidson County criminal case or the DCSO processing time. A court order, bond, time served, or dismissal in a local case does not cancel a separate immigration hold. Conversely, an old ICE agreement or a rumor of a detainer does not prove current ICE custody for a named person.

Search Davidson ICE Custody

Use the official ICE Online Detainee Locator after confirming identity and the likely transfer. The locator offers two search routes.

1. Use the A-number and country of birth when the A-number is known. Enter the number exactly as the system requests.
2. If no A-number is available, use the biographical search with the person’s name, country of birth, and other required fields.
3. Compare spelling, aliases, birth details, and the reported facility before accepting a match.
4. Record the date and time of the search and the exact status or location shown.
5. Compare the result with DCSO’s release disposition or the sending custodian’s movement record.
6. If no result appears after a confirmed transfer, use the official ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations contact path.

The locator result is custodian-specific. It does not serve as a Davidson County court docket, a BOP history, a state FOIL result, or a universal release certificate. The Davidson County custody search explains how to verify the sending record before moving to ICE.

ICE Locator Search Fields

Choosing the correct search mode matters. An A-number is the immigration identifier, while a DCSO control number, TDOC number, or BOP register number belongs to another system.

Do not place sensitive identity details in public messages or unofficial forms. Use the secure official locator and verified agency channels. If two people share a name, do not merge their records without a reliable identifier and matching birth information.

DCSO to ICE Transfer Records

DCSO’s record is the starting evidence for a county-to-ICE handoff. Recent Bookings can show a Release Date for admissions within its rolling 48-hour window, but the page is admission-based and is not a complete release archive. A filled date proves only that DCSO closed that booking episode. Open the detail or request release papers to seek the disposition and receiving agency.

For an older booking, call DCSO’s Offender Information Center at 615-862-8123. It is available around the clock for current and released offenders. Ask a narrow question: what release date and disposition does DCSO record, and was the person transferred to another custodian? If a document is needed, request the existing “Incarceration Date (Release Papers)” record and the receiving agency, if recorded.

A court docket supplies the local case event. It may show bond, dismissal, a sentence, time served, or another order. The DCSO release timestamp reflects physical county processing. ICE custody is a third event. Preserving all three avoids calling the end of a jail stay the end of every form of custody.

Davidson ICE Contact Routes

There is no single verified ICE detention facility in Davidson County that should be presented as the local jail. ICE custody can occur after transfer and may be located elsewhere. Use the locator, the sending agency record, and ERO rather than inventing a local facility address or phone.

Give DCSO the name, date of birth, booking period, and control number if known. For ICE, use the A-number when available. Keep the identifiers separate. An A-number is not a DCSO control number or a BOP register number.

Note: Use ERO when DCSO confirms an ICE transfer but the public locator has no current match.

Empty ICE Result Limits

An empty locator result has several possible explanations. The name or birth information may not match the agency record. The person may use an alias. The transfer may be too recent for the public system. Some people may fall outside locator coverage, or the person may have moved to another custodian. None of those possibilities establishes release.

Repeat the search with verified information, not guesses. Check the A-number format, country of birth, full name, and spelling. Then return to DCSO or the other sending agency for the recorded destination. If ICE was named, use ERO’s official inquiry route. State the result carefully: “No matching public ICE locator result was found with the supplied information as of the check time.”

Do not replace the missing ICE result with DCSO’s empty active search. A transferred person should be absent from the county’s active custody after the handoff. That absence is consistent with continued ICE custody. The movement record is the bridge between the two systems.

ICE Versus Other Custodians

Davidson County concentrates several custody systems in Nashville. DCSO manages the county jail. TDOC operates state prisons and community supervision. BOP handles sentenced federal prison custody, while USMS controls many federal pretrial detainees. ICE administers immigration detention. Similar names or Nashville locations do not make these records interchangeable.

Immigration custody is also distinct from criminal parole, probation, and federal supervised release. Those are supervision frameworks tied to a sentence or court order. An ICE locator result should not be used to infer the status of any separate supervision term.

Davidson ICE Release Proof

A strong conclusion uses a sequence of dated records. DCSO or another sending custodian establishes when its custody ended and names the transfer destination. The ICE locator shows the current public immigration result when the person is covered. ERO supplies the official fallback if the transfer is documented but the locator is empty or unclear.

Keep the language tied to each source. “DCSO recorded release to ICE” describes the county event. “ICE lists the person at the displayed facility” describes the receiving record. If ERO later confirms release from immigration custody, state that separate event and date. Do not collapse all three into one release claim.

Court records remain a fourth layer when a local or federal criminal case matters. A criminal disposition does not determine the immigration case, and an immigration custody result does not establish the criminal disposition. Matching identifiers and dates preserves those boundaries.

Historic Davidson ICE Agreement

Section 19’s detainer angle requires a strong warning about old documents. A historic ICE intergovernmental agreement names the former Davidson County Jail at 506 Second Avenue North. That agreement is evidence of an earlier arrangement, not proof that DCSO currently holds a particular person for ICE or that the old location remains the operative site.

Facility names, jail operations, and agreements can change. The only sound individual path is current: obtain DCSO’s disposition or receiving-agency entry, then check the ICE locator and ERO. Do not use the historic agreement to fill a gap when the current release record names no transfer.

The agreement also cannot prove the reason a person disappeared from DCSO’s active search. Bond, court release, transfer to TDOC, another county, federal custody, and ICE are different outcomes. The booking detail and release papers should identify the actual episode.

Davidson Facility Names Changed

Davidson County’s jail campus changed materially in 2020. Downtown Detention Center opened, Hill Detention Center closed, Maximum Correctional Center populations moved, and a former Metro Detention Facility annex was repurposed. That history makes an old jail name or address unreliable for a current ICE search.

Use the current DCSO booking detail and present facility field for the county stage. After a transfer, use ICE’s current location result. A historic county name should remain in the source description rather than being presented as the present detention site. The operator, identifier, and date establish which system controls each step.

Detainer

A request or hold that can direct custody movement rather than community release.

Transfer

A handoff between custodians while detention continues.

A-number

An immigration identifier used for the ICE locator and agency follow-up.

ERO

ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations, the official fallback when locator information is unavailable or unclear.

Note: A former Davidson County jail name does not identify a present ICE detention location.