Find KCDC Release Records

KCDC Release Destinations

Kendall County Detention Center is the county's main booking and confinement facility. The sheriff describes it as a 153-bed jail for misdemeanor and felony defendants awaiting case outcomes, as well as people serving the shorter terms ordinarily handled in a county jail. A true community release may follow bond, sentence completion, a court order, or another lawful disposition. The official public roster supplies a release date for a booking, but it does not consistently label the release mechanism.

A transfer ends the Kendall County jail booking without ending confinement. KCSO says sentences beyond the term normally served at the county facility move to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice or a state-jail facility. Other departures can lead to another county, USMS custody, or ICE. Ask for the release sheet's disposition and receiving agency before treating absence from the current roster as freedom in the community.

Confirm a KCDC Release

The official KCSO Released roster is the fastest local channel. It is a rolling 48-hour view, not a permanent archive. Search by first or last name, open the profile, and compare the SO number, booking number, booking date, charges, and release date. The Current roster answers a different question: a matching current entry means the person remains held on that KCDC booking.

1. Open the Released view and search the person's name.
2. Match the booking number and dates, not the name alone.
3. Save the access date because entries leave after the rolling window.
4. Call KCSO for the exact release time, disposition, and receiving agency.
5. Match the result to the Kendall court case or the next custodian.

If the name appears in neither view, the result is unknown. The booking may be older than 48 hours, still processing, transferred, confidential, or affected by a legal order. The broader Kendall County release search explains the court, state, federal, and records-request sequence.

KCDC Records and Contact

Older or more exact proof comes from the sheriff's underlying jail record. Request the booking sheet and release sheet for the named booking. State the full name, SO number, booking number, and approximate dates. Ask for the actual release date and time, disposition or reason, receiving agency if transferred, and booking photograph if needed. Electronic delivery and an itemized estimate help keep the request narrow.

The KCSO Open Record Request page says requests must be written. Approved information is generally available in one to seven days, while denial notice is described within ten days. Those local statements are not a promise that every request finishes on a fixed schedule. Active-investigation material and other protected data may be withheld or redacted under Texas law.

KCDC Release Record Fields

The public profile provides a compact snapshot. It can connect a person to one booking and show the calendar date on which that booking ended. Exact legal effect may require more. A listed bond amount does not prove bond caused release, and a charge does not establish a conviction.

For proof of why custody ended, pair the profile with the sheriff's release sheet and the court's signed order or judgment. A docket event is only an index when the wording is unclear.

KCDC Bond Release Verification

A bond figure on the public profile is useful context, but it does not show that money was posted or that bond was the event that ended custody. A bond release leaves the criminal case pending under its court terms. Confirm the outcome through the release disposition, the actual bond instrument, and the corresponding court cause. The KCSO Bail Bond Information page distinguishes cash, surety, and personal bonds and explains local acceptance rules.

KCSO says release bonds are not accepted from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. or from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Cash bonds and fines require the exact amount by money order or cashier's check. Wire, online, and other payment methods are not accepted under the published instructions. Surety paperwork has a $15 fee, with no more than two such fees per person per jailing. These are transaction rules. They do not promise when the person will physically leave the facility.

KCDC Court Record Follow-Up

The jail event and the criminal case answer different questions. KCSO records when a booking starts and ends. The Kendall judicial record can show the charge, cause number, court, bond order, dismissal, judgment, sentence, or later supervision action. Search the Kendall County judicial portal with the person and cause information from the booking. Then request the signed instrument if a docket label does not make the legal result clear.

District Clerk records are the principal route for felony and district cases. County Clerk records cover applicable county-level criminal matters. A fine-only Boerne case may instead remain with the municipal court. One resolved cause does not prove that every hold ended. Match all causes tied to the booking, then compare the release sheet. This is especially important when a dismissal, sentence credit, or probation order appears near the release date.

KCDC Property After Release

KCSO publishes a separate Inmate Personal Property channel. Property pickup is listed for weekdays from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., excluding county holidays. A confined person must complete a release form naming the recipient, and the recipient must present government-issued identification. The published instructions say foreign-issued identification is not accepted.

The source does not give one universal post-release deadline. Call before traveling and ask about the exact booking, authorization, pickup point, acceptable ID, and whether any property remains. KCSO says indigent clothing is provided when a released person lacks proper clothes. It also warns that property unable to accompany a transferred person can be destroyed within 72 hours when no pickup is arranged. That transfer rule makes prompt confirmation important.

KCDC History Explains Transfers

The sheriff calls KCDC a new 153-bed detention center staffed in four shifts. That local description also explains the key county-to-state boundary. The facility houses people awaiting misdemeanor and felony case outcomes, while jail sentences are typically up to one year. Longer sentences are sent to TDCJ or a state-jail facility.

The official detention-center page and facility image show the source behind those facts.

The image identifies the local jail whose roster and records control Kendall bookings. It should not be used as proof that a named person was released.

Follow a KCDC TDCJ Transfer

No TDCJ prison unit was identified inside Kendall County. TDCJ still becomes the correct system when a person leaves KCDC under a state commitment. Ask KCSO for the receiving agency and transfer disposition, then search the TDCJ current inmate locator after intake has had time to process. Match the seven-digit TDCJ number or SID, name, offense, sentence, and county of conviction. A transfer marks continued incarceration, not a release into the community.

The online TDCJ locator includes only people currently held in a TDCJ facility, and its data is at least 24 hours old. A no-result soon after transfer can reflect intake delay. A later no-result can also reflect eventual release because former prisoners are outside the locator's scope. Use TDCJ offender-information, Public Information Act, and parole channels for incarceration history, release or discharge information, and supervision status. A projected or scheduled date is not proof that the gate event occurred.

Police Agency Versus KCDC Custody

Boerne Police Department and Fair Oaks Ranch Police Department can appear as originating agencies on Kendall bookings. They are arrest channels, not separate long-term county release databases. Once a person is booked at KCDC, the sheriff's booking number is the key for local custody and release records. Use the agency field to connect the arrest, but use KCSO to confirm how and when that jail episode ended.

Fair Oaks Ranch spans parts of Kendall, Bexar, and Comal counties, so first confirm the county of actual booking. A Kendall booking follows KCSO's 48-hour feed and records process. A booking in another county follows that county's custodian. For a Boerne municipal matter, the municipal court can preserve a fine-only case record, while more serious charges route through Kendall County or district courts.

KCDC ICE Transfer Check

No ICE detention facility or contract in Kendall County was confirmed in the reviewed official sources. Even so, an immigration detainer can change the destination after a county booking ends. A person may appear released from KCDC while entering federal civil custody. That event is a transfer until community release is independently shown.

Search the ICE Online Detainee Locator by exact A-number and country of birth, or by biographical details. Recent moves can lag. If the person is not found after a reported pickup, use the ICE detention information contact path. Absence from the locator proves neither release nor removal.

Note: Match the KCDC receiving-agency entry to the next system before drawing a conclusion about where the person went.