Where Holt County Jail Releases Go
Holt County Jail is a county jail operated through the Holt County Sheriff's Department. It holds local arrests, pretrial detainees, people serving local sentences, people held on warrants, and people awaiting an authorized transfer. A departure may be a bond release, court-ordered release, dismissal, completion of a local term, transfer, extradition, or commitment to the Missouri Department of Corrections.
Community release and agency transfer must stay separate. Bond, a release order, dismissal, or time served can return a person to the community. A state commitment moves the person into MODOC custody. A federal writ can place the person under federal authority, while an immigration detainer may lead to ICE custody. In all three transfer cases, the Holt County booking ended but confinement or legal custody continued.
Confirm a Holt County Jail Release
The official county site provides no online inmate lookup, live roster, released tab, or booking archive. Confirmation begins with the jail and court, not with a claim inferred from a missing web result. Use full identity details and one specific booking whenever possible.
- Call the official jail or dispatch line and ask whether the named Holt County booking remains active.
- If it ended, ask whether it was a community release or a transfer and request the receiving agency.
- Check Missouri Case.net for the Holt County case, bond, order, dismissal, sentence, probation, warrant, or commitment.
- If the court shows a state commitment, use the official MODOC Offender Web Search with DOC ID or name.
- Request the existing jail release or transfer entry when a written record is needed.
The jail entry and court docket answer different questions. The jail supplies the actual release or transfer timestamp. The court supplies the legal action behind it. A judge's order is not a physical door clock because processing, another warrant, or a detainer may still affect departure.
Names alone are not enough. Compare a middle name or initial, age or birth information where it is public, the case number, booking dates, charges, and arresting agency. Read the newest court entries in date order. Bond posting, dismissal, judgment, probation, a MODOC commitment, a warrant, or revocation can each change what the latest custody event means. If two records appear to conflict, preserve the source and date checked, then ask the agency that created the disputed entry.
Holt County Jail Release Contacts
The official Holt County Sheriff's Department page identifies the department as the Holt County Jail location and says it oversees inmate care and services. It lists operation 24 hours a day, Monday through Sunday. That statement describes sheriff and dispatch availability. It should not be read as a promise that a public records counter or lobby handles every type of request at all hours.
Holt County Sheriff's DepartmentAttn: Custodian of Records
107 South Main Street, P.O. Box 229
Oregon, MO 64473
Phone: 660-822-3001 or 660-822-3002
Fax: 660-822-3005
Sheriff Tiger Parsons: tparsons@holtso.org
Use the phone line for a timely status check. Use a written request for a durable copy of the release or transfer entry. The county page does not name a separate records custodian, publish a dedicated request form, or list a local fee schedule.
Holt County Jail Release Fields
A focused request asks for the closest existing jail-management record instead of asking staff to create a new report. Give the full name, aliases, date of birth if known, approximate booking dates, and case number. The county has not published a field dictionary, so requested fields should not be described as guaranteed fields.
| Field to request | Use in release verification |
|---|---|
| Booking date and time | Fixes the start of the local custody episode |
| Booking number | Separates one arrest from another |
| Charges and arresting agency | Connects the booking with the correct case |
| Release date and time | Shows when Holt County custody ended |
| Release authority or type | Identifies bond, order, completion, or another basis |
| Receiving agency | Shows whether custody continued elsewhere |
The booking photograph can be requested as a separate item tied to the booking and date. No official online Holt County photo channel is documented. A MODOC image, if one exists, is a state corrections image and not necessarily the county booking photograph.
Request Holt County Jail Release Proof
Address a written Sunshine request to the Custodian of Records at the Sheriff's Department. Ask for booking date and time, booking number, charges or arresting agency, release date and time, release authority or type, and the receiving agency if the event was a transfer. Electronic copies may reduce copy work. Request an estimate before charges exceed a chosen amount.
Missouri law does not require the department to answer new questions or build a custom list it does not maintain. Under RSMo §610.023, access should come as soon as possible and no later than the end of the third business day, or the custodian must explain the cause of delay and state the earliest availability date. Large or complex requests may take longer to complete.
Section 610.026 permits copy, labor, research, electronic, and image costs within its terms. Ask for open portions if other content is closed, and ask the custodian to identify the legal ground for each withholding. Holt County publishes no online roster retention window, so an older record should be requested by a narrow date range and case number.
Older Holt County releases often require two requests. Start with Case.net because the criminal docket can remain available after the jail stay ends. Then ask the Sheriff for the matching booking and release entry. A certified judgment or order from the Holt County Circuit Court Clerk proves the court action, while the jail entry proves the actual local departure. Neither record should be made to serve the other's purpose.
Note: A phone confirmation is timely, but the underlying release or transfer entry is stronger evidence when the exact outcome matters.
Holt County Jail Transfer Records
A commitment to MODOC is a transfer from the county jail, not release to the community. Search the MODOC Offender Web Search by DOC ID when possible, or use name and compare the offense, county, sentence, status, and location. Intake delay can cause the court judgment to appear before the state search result. If so, call the jail or MODOC rather than treating the absent result as release.
Federal movement follows a different path. A person held for federal proceedings may be under U.S. Marshals authority at a contract site. There is no public USMS locator like the BOP locator, so check the federal docket and responsible agency. If the person later enters the Bureau of Prisons, the BOP locator may eventually show custody or a historical release date.
No official evidence identifies Holt County Jail as an ICE contract detention facility. Still, an individual detainer can lead to an immigration transfer. Request the receiving agency from the Sheriff, then use ICE ODLS. A missing ODLS result can reflect data timing, spelling, eligibility, or transfer and does not prove community release.
City Arrests Reach County Dispatch
The Sheriff's official page states that county dispatch handles all police, fire, and emergency medical services. It also lists the Oregon and Mound City police departments. No separate municipal jail or municipal release list was found in the reviewed official sources. This makes the central 24-hour county line the practical first contact for a very recent city arrest.
Give dispatch the person's name, arresting agency, and approximate time. The person may be awaiting county booking, may have received a summons, or may have left under a court order. Follow the related Case.net or municipal case for the lasting legal record. The absence of a municipal feed is not proof that no arrest or custody event occurred.
About Holt County Jail Custody
Holt County Jail is the only locally documented detention facility in the county facility map. It is not a state prison, federal prison, regional jail, or ICE detention center. Its role centers on county custody and authorized transfers. State prisons serve Holt County cases only after a Missouri court commitment.
The official page links services for people who are currently confined, including commissary and inmate telephone information. Those services do not confirm a past release. For a released-person question, use the departure entry, court case, and any receiving-agency record. Broader Holt County release-record and lookup paths are collected on the Holt County released inmates search.
A person who leaves the county jail on probation is in the community under a court order, but that does not mean a state prison release occurred. Parole and conditional release are MODOC paths after prison confinement. Time served ends the local sentence reflected in the judgment. These labels should be repeated exactly as the official records use them because each label sends the search to a different office.
Unsupported claims should remain out of the record. No official local source established a bed count, standard release time, release desk location, property pickup procedure, weekend processing rule, booking fee, average stay, roster lag, or sheriff app. Calling ahead is the only sound way to learn current operational details that the county has not published.