Check Florida Department of Corrections Releases

Florida Corrections Release Routes

No Florida Department of Corrections prison was identified inside Flagler County. That does not remove FDC from the local custody chain. A person sentenced in Flagler Circuit Court can leave Sheriff Perry Hall Inmate Detention Facility for a state reception process, move among FDC institutions during classification and incarceration, and later leave prison from an institution elsewhere in Florida. The Flagler County released-inmate search supplies the county path. Its booking Release Date marks departure from Perry Hall. It is not the state-prison release date.

After a Florida corrections release, the person may be discharged without active FDC supervision or may enter felony supervision, conditional release, parole, or another state-administered status. FDC's released-inmate detail and incarceration history document the state custody event. The supervised-population search documents an active community status. The Florida Commission on Offender Review supplies decisions within its parole and conditional-release authority. A person can therefore be out of prison while still appearing in a state supervision record.

FDC Released Offender Search

The Corrections Offender Network gateway separates inmate-population and supervised-population searches. Use the DC number when it is known because names and aliases can produce close matches. Otherwise search by first and last name, then compare date of birth, physical descriptors, conviction data, and the DC number before relying on a detail. The system is for people who entered FDC custody or supervision. It is not a substitute for the Flagler booking record when someone only spent time in Perry Hall.

The Inmate Release Information search can filter by release-date range, release facility, county of commitment, and stated county of residence. Result rows include name, DC number, race, sex, release date, and birth date. A detail may add a photograph, aliases, sentence history, custody entries, and Incarceration History. For an event that has already happened, a past Release Date paired with Date Out-Custody is stronger than a future date by itself.

Confirm an FDC Release

A state result must be checked in the right order. The public system includes current prisoners, already released people, people scheduled for release, and supervised people. Opening only the first name match can collapse those distinct records into a false conclusion.

1. Obtain the DC number from the FDC record or the Flagler court commitment when possible.
2. Search the current population to see whether FDC still lists the person as imprisoned.
3. Open Inmate Release Information and compare the full identity, Release Date, and release facility.
4. Read Incarceration History for a corresponding Date Out-Custody instead of relying on a future field.
5. Check the supervised-population search for active post-prison supervision and the assigned location.
6. Request the maintained FDC admission and release record when documentary proof is required.

The captured FDC released-record example shows the kind of state fields that distinguish a completed custody period.

A matching identity and Date Out-Custody are essential because the screenshot illustrates the field structure, not the status of any other Flagler County person.

FDC Current Release Dates

For a person still imprisoned, FDC uses the exact field label Current Release Date. It is a maintained calculation, not proof that the person has crossed the prison gate. Florida Statutes § 944.275 authorizes gain-time administration and uses the term tentative release date. Florida Administrative Code Rule 33-601.101 governs FDC release-date computation. Awards, restorations, forfeitures, court credit, sentence structure, mandatory minimums, new legal action, and review can change the field.

For covered state offenses, Florida law applies an 85-percent minimum-service framework. Section 944.275 and the Criminal Punishment Code principle in § 921.002 set the governing limits for applicable dates and cases. An incentive gain-time ceiling is not an automatic award. FDC warns that the current date can move because of gain-time action or review, and “TO BE SET” means a date is pending review. The safe course is to read FDC's maintained field rather than build a private calculation from sentence length.

County-only sentences use a different framework. A person serving only a Flagler jail term is not converted into an FDC prisoner by the length of the sentence. The Flagler judgment, court-awarded jail credit, FCSO computation, and county-prisoner law control that path. The Flagler County projected release page separates the two calculations in more detail.

FDC Release Records Contact

The Bureau of Admission and Release handles state-prison release questions. FDC's public-record custodian provides the formal path for an admission, release, custody, or supervision record. Neither office is the custodian of a county-only Perry Hall booking. Include the DC number, full name, and another identity field, then identify the existing record sought.

Submit online through the FDC records request center. A focused request can ask for the public admission and release transaction, release date and type, facility history, and supervision status record. FDC reviews responsive material under Chapter 119 and § 945.10, can redact protected material, and provides a charge estimate when costs apply. Its corrections photograph is tied to the FDC record and should not be called the Flagler jail booking photograph.

Flagler to FDC Transfers

The transfer chain begins with the Flagler criminal case. Perry Hall's Transportation Unit moves people to state and county facilities, while the Flagler Clerk docket records the judgment and commitment. If a county booking ends near a prison sentence, the Release Date still proves only that the selected jail booking closed. Search FDC for the later admission. A current FDC record after the county date supports a state-custody transfer rather than community release.

Institution assignments can change during reception, classification, medical placement, programming, or later transfer. The page for “Florida Department of Corrections institutions” therefore represents the statewide system, not a single Flagler building. Use the institution shown on the current or release detail, but use the central FDC record as the custody timeline. A prison move from one FDC institution to another is not a release from state custody.

Note: No FDC prison was identified in Flagler County, so a local street address should never be invented for the statewide institution page.

Florida Corrections Record Limits

FDC public information is subject to change and reflects its own data cycles. Current population information and photographs have a different refresh pattern from release dates and location changes. Inmate Release Information includes both released and scheduled-to-release people, so a result list is not automatically a completed-release list. Formal records are the correct route when the public detail is incomplete or a maintained custody history is needed.

Florida corrections data also has a defined historical scope. FDC's OBIS description states that released-inmate coverage extends from October 1, 1997, and describes monthly public-data updates. Older or absent online material should not be filled by assumption. The Flagler Clerk case may explain the sentence, while FDC remains the authority for the prison custody and discharge event. Court disposition, county departure, state admission, state release, and supervision are separate records that form one chronology only after their identifiers and dates are reconciled.

A photograph or prior institution name does not prove present custody. FDC photos are state corrections images, not Perry Hall booking photographs, and an institution history can contain several transfers before the final Date Out-Custody. Save the data date shown by the public record and verify changes through FDC. When an amended Flagler judgment, new sentence, or supervision action appears, the most recent maintained state record should control the state timeline. A certified request is useful when the public screen changed between checks or when a prior institution and the release facility differ.