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Valley Detention Release Paths

The Valley County Detention Center, also called Valley County Jail on county pages, provides safe, temporary custody under the Valley County Sheriff's Office. It holds more than one type of detainee. A pretrial detainee may leave on bond or a court order. A person serving local time may leave when that term is complete. Another person may remain in custody while being transferred to IDOC, another county, federal authorities, or immigration authorities.

A community release should create a booking-linked event in the jail system. That event can show an actual release date and time, a release code, the authority for the action, and any destination recorded by the jail. Transfer is different. It means custody continued with a receiving agency. Medical transport, work release, furlough, and court movement also should not be read as final release without confirmation.

Confirm Valley County Release

The county publishes no person search, current roster, 24-hour list, 72-hour list, release archive, or booking-photo gallery. Start with the detention center when the need is timely. Give the person's full legal name and date of birth if known. Ask whether the person was released, transferred, or remains held. Record the exact terms used, the time of the call, and the office or unit contacted.

Telephone information guides the next step, but an existing record is stronger evidence. Use the Sheriff Public Records Request and describe the booking with enough detail to avoid a same-name error. Ask for records that already exist. Do not ask the custodian to investigate or create a new report.

1. Identify the person by full name, date of birth, booking number, or case number when known.
2. Define the booking or exact date range and ask for the standard booking-and-release record.
3. Request booking and release timestamps, release code, releasing authority, transfer destination, detainer disposition, and public charge or bond fields.
4. Ask for electronic delivery and a fee estimate before paid work begins.
5. Compare the response with the court order and any receiving-agency status.

For broader search and records coverage, the Valley County released-inmate search explains how sheriff, court, IDOC, VINE, BOP, and ICE records fit together.

Valley Detention Record Fields

A release record is attached to a specific booking. It should not be inferred from the lack of a name online. A focused request can seek the legal name and aliases tied to that booking, arresting agency, booking timestamp, charges, case number, bond type and amount, release timestamp, release code or reason, releasing court or authority, destination or transfer agency when public, detainer disposition, and booking photograph.

Some fields may be withheld or redacted under law. The Idaho Public Records Act permits access subject to exemptions, and the county warns that processing or copying fees may apply. Valley County does not post one fixed booking-record price. Request an estimate and offer to narrow the scope if the projected cost is high.

The county's judicial-record request is separate from the sheriff form. It supports document, certified-document, audio, and delivery choices. A signed order may precede actual departure because jail processing, another case, a warrant, or a receiving agency can intervene.

Detention Center Contact Records

The jail and records unit are the correct local contacts for Valley County release events. Administrative hours do not limit jail operations, and the county publishes no general release-processing schedule.

Administrative Services lists weekday hours of 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. for records services. That is not a promise that releases occur only during those hours. The jail operates continuously. No public rule states a set exit, weekend, or holiday release time.

The Sheriff's Office shares the Spring Street address and lists 208-382-7150, fax 208-382-7170, and sheriff@valleycountyid.gov. Route jail-status calls to detention and formal record requests through the published request channel.

Valley County Custody Context

The sheriff's 2024 report lists 528 bookings, up 23 percent from 2023. Those are booking events, not unique people and not releases. The same report gives an average daily population of 42 and describes 18 sworn detention deputies plus two part-time security deputies. An older Idaho Sheriffs' Association directory lists rated capacity of 63 and an older average population of 26. The source dates must remain separate.

The population includes distinct procedural groups. County Court Services handles local pretrial monitoring and misdemeanor or adult probation. IDOC handles state felony supervision. A pretrial release is not parole, and local probation is not always IDOC supervision. The IDOC search may even show an IDOC client physically located at Valley County Jail while the status remains “In custody.” Location and status must be read together.

The county's 2023 Master Facilities Plan discusses a possible future justice-facility and jail expansion on the existing site, with a planning horizon into 2035 to 2037. It is long-range planning, not proof of approved construction or a current change in release access.

Court-Commit Release Records

Valley County requires people ordered to serve judgment-sentencing time, including court commit and work release, to sign up with the detention center before reporting. That is a local custody path distinct from an arrest and bond release. A person can enter custody on a planned date, serve intermittent or local time, and later leave after completing the required period.

The planned end of a court commitment is not the release event itself. Ask for the actual release timestamp and event code. Credit, an amended judgment, another hold, or administrative processing can change the result. Work release also does not mean the person has fully left custody each time the person goes to work.

Release

A documented exit from the booking or custodial term.

Transfer

Movement to another agency while custody continues.

Time served

Completion of the custodial time recognized by the court.

Work release

A custody arrangement allowing approved work movement, not automatic discharge.

Property After Valley Release

No public Valley County source describes the routine return of personal jail property at release. Call the detention center first when clothing, funds, identification, or other items were stored with the inmate account. Do not assume the separate sheriff evidence process controls those items.

The sheriff provides a Property Request for material held by the Evidence and Property Division. Release can depend on the type of property, case status, and proof of purchase. Use that route only when the agency confirms the division holds the item. A property request does not prove custody release, and the booking/release record remains the right source for the exit event.

Note: Valley County publishes no gate-money rule, family waiting area, transit instruction, or routine inmate-property handoff procedure.

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The official Valley County jail page shows the available facility contact and commitment information.

The page is informational rather than a searchable roster, so a call or written request remains necessary after a person leaves.