Butte County Released Inmates

A Butte County release means the jail custody event has ended, but it does not always mean the person walked directly into the community. A person may be released on bail, released on own recognizance, cited out, discharged after time served, released after a court order, moved into sheriff alternative custody, transferred to CDCR, picked up on another warrant, or moved to federal or immigration custody. The right record depends on that path.

The Butte County Sheriff's Office Corrections Division operates the county jail in Oroville and is the local source for jail booking and release records. Its public online jail artifact is the BCSO Booking Logs page, which posts weekly booking-log PDFs. Those logs help identify a booking, but they are not a live released-inmate roster. After release, stronger confirmation usually comes from VINE, the Sheriff's Records Office, the Butte court docket, or the receiving agency.

614 jail beds listed by the Corrections Division

540+ average daily population reported locally

8,700+ bookings cited in local reporting as context, not a release total

Butte County Release Paths

The weekly booking log can show case type, bail, charge status, warrant data, and arresting or holding agency. Those fields point to a release path, but they do not by themselves prove current custody. If a court order, bond, sentence completion, detainer, or hold changed after the PDF was published, the booking log will not be enough. Pair the log with VINE, court records, or a Sheriff's Records request.

Release path	What it means	Where to confirm next
Bail or bond	Money or bond conditions allowed the person to leave jail while the case continues.	Butte Superior Court, VINE, and Sheriff's Records.
Court release	A judge ordered release, often after a hearing or case action.	Court portal first, then jail release processing status.
Sentence served	A local jail sentence ended after credits and all cases were computed.	Jail records, release-date notice, and court sentence.
Alternative custody	SWAP or ACS may place the person outside the jail building while obligations continue.	Sheriff alternative-custody contacts and court order.
Transfer	The person left Butte County Jail for CDCR, another county, BOP, ICE, or USMS custody.	Receiving agency locator, court record, and release record.

Butte County Release Record Fields

A release record answers a more exact question than a booking record. The booking record shows when the person entered the jail process. The release record shows when that custody event ended and why. California law treats the time and manner of release as a normal arrest-information field, subject to safety, investigation, juvenile, sealed-record, and other limits.

Field	What it shows
Booking date and time	The start of the Butte County jail event.
Inmate number	The jail identifier used to match the weekly log, VINE entry, or records request.
Release date and time	When jail custody ended, if the field is releasable.
Manner of release	Bond, court order, sentence served, transfer, hold cleared, or another agency label.
Receiving agency	CDCR, another county, ICE, BOP, USMS, or a local program when the person was transferred.
Charges and holds	The case or hold context tied to the release event.

Use the exact name, booking date, inmate number, date of birth, and court case number when available. A narrow request for a booking and release record is easier to process than a broad request for every file connected to the person.

Request Butte County Release Records

The Sheriff's Records Office says it maintains incident reports, bookings into the jail, and reporting statistics to the California Department of Justice. For a formal release record, contact the Sheriff's Records/CCW Unit or use the county's Public Records Act request portal. The Sheriff's Office is at 5 Gillick Way, Oroville, CA 95965. Records/CCW can be reached at 530-552-5200, and the jail line is 530-552-1600. Oroville records hours are Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Identify the booking first through the weekly BCSO log, VINE, court case number, or a family record.
Ask for the booking and release record for the named person, not a broad criminal file.
Include name, date of birth, booking date, inmate number, and case number if known.
Request release date, release time, manner of release, release facility, and receiving agency if transferred.
Ask whether any booking photo is releasable if that is part of the same records need.

Gov. Code section 7923.610 identifies time and manner of release as arrest information that is generally disclosed unless a statutory limit applies.

Butte County Release Record Laws

California's Public Records Act is codified in Government Code division 10. Gov. Code section 7922.525 sets the inspection baseline for public records during office hours. Gov. Code section 7922.530 covers reasonably described copy requests and fee payment. Gov. Code section 7922.535 gives an agency 10 days to determine whether it has disclosable records, with an unusual-circumstances extension of up to 14 additional days.

Release access still has limits. Gov. Code section 7923.600 preserves exemptions for law-enforcement investigatory files and related records. Juvenile information, sealed records, victim data, medical details, confidential investigative material, and court-restricted data may be withheld or redacted. The safe request is release confirmation first, then specific follow-up records if the agency says they are available.

Butte County Court Release Timing

The jail handbook gives a key Butte County timing caveat. A person released after a court appearance is released as quickly as papers are processed if no holds remain, but the process can take up to eight hours. That matters when the Butte Superior Court case-information page or Tyler court portal shows a court action before the person has left the building.

Scheduled releases are different. The handbook states that scheduled releases normally occur between 8:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m. on the last day of incarceration when the sentence is complete and no holds remain. Time computation happens after all cases are fully sentenced, and a release-date notice is sent to the incarcerated person. Depending on sentence type, that computation can take 1 to 4 weeks.

Q: Why does court show release but the jail has not released the person yet? The jail still has to process release papers and check for holds. Another case, warrant, detainer, or transfer order can stop a court release from becoming a door release.

Butte County Release Logistics

The handbook also answers practical questions that do not appear in a weekly booking log. Personal property is returned at release. Remaining trust-account money is issued by check or loaded to a debit card. Narcotic medications stored by medical staff must be retrieved on release, and pending commissary orders require pickup arrangements. A property receipt may be needed when someone claims missing items.

Transportation can matter late at night. The handbook says a person released at night who cannot secure transportation may remain in the public area of the correctional facilities until 7:00 a.m. unless disruptive. Butte County Transit bus tickets may be available from jail staff on request and with justification. These details do not prove release, but they help explain the local door-release process.

Find Butte County Released Inmates

A released Butte County inmate is best confirmed through a sequence, not one search box. Start with the official booking source, then check status, then read the court reason, then follow any transfer or supervision path. If the event is old or the online sources do not match, use the Sheriff's Records Office or the court clerk route.

Open the weekly BCSO booking log for the arrest date range and search by name or inmate number.
Check California VINE for a current or recent custody-status change from the participating source.
Search Butte Superior Court by name or case number for disposition, bail, sentence, warrant, or release-order context.
If the person went to state prison, use CDCR and post-release supervision sources instead of county jail records alone.
If federal or immigration custody is indicated, use BOP, ICE ODLS, USMS FOIA, and the federal court record.
When online sources stop, request the release record from the Sheriff's Records Office.

The same-day feed issue is covered in more detail on the Released Last 24 Hours page. For state or county supervision after release, use the Parole / Probation page.

Butte County Booking Logs

The official BCSO online release-search context is weekly, not rolling. Current visible PDF ranges during research included date spans such as 07/02/26 through 07/08/26 and prior weekly windows. Older logs appear through the county archive center. A person released in the last day or three days may not have a separate public release-only entry, so the booking log has to be paired with VINE or direct records contact.

The BCSO Booking Logs page is the official starting point for the weekly PDFs.

Butte County released inmates weekly booking logs page

The screenshot shows why the Butte County path is date-range based. It supports release research, but it is not a live release roster.

Weekly log field	How it helps a release search
Name, date of birth, age, and gender	Helps match a person before checking VINE or court records.
Inmate number	Useful for a Sheriff's Records request.
Arrest date and agency	Identifies the booking window and arresting source.
Bail and case type	May suggest bond, court release, remand, hold, or sentence path.
Warrant or charge status	Can point to another county, PRCS, parole, or transfer issue.

CDCR Search for Butte Releases

CDCR matters when a Butte County case becomes a state-prison case, when a person is in a CDCR pre-release placement, or when release leads to parole or PRCS. The public CDCR entry point is CIRIS. CA.gov describes CIRIS results as showing name, CDCR number, age, current location, commitment counties, admission date, and Board of Parole Hearings dates or outcomes for people currently in CDCR custody.

The CA.gov CIRIS service page identifies the main fields a public search may return.

CDCR CIRIS search for Butte County released inmates and state custody status

CIRIS is most useful when the person is still in CDCR custody or has a current state-prison data path. A former state prisoner may require parole, PRCS, BPH, or CDCR records request follow-up.

CDCR field	Release meaning
CDCR number	Best identifier for state records and CDCR public records requests.
Current location	Shows institution or custody location when the person is currently in CDCR custody.
Commitment county	Can tie a state case back to Butte County Superior Court.
BPH dates and outcomes	Helps explain parole-suitability timing for eligible state prisoners.

Butte County VINE and Court

Butte County's Corrections Division tells the public to use VINE for custody-status updates and court-case changes. Use California VINE for the custody-status layer, then use the Butte court portal for the legal reason behind the status. VINE may show release, transfer, facility/source, or status changes. The court can show bail, own-recognizance release, dismissal, sentence, probation, warrant recall, or prison commitment.

The Butte court case-information page says public users can search non-confidential, non-sealed criminal cases after 1988, with South County Municipal cases after 1989.

Butte County court case information for released inmate confirmation

If a VINE result and court entry seem to conflict, check timing and holds. A court release order can precede physical jail release by hours.

Butte County Post-Release Supervision

Parole, probation, and PRCS are not the same thing. Parole is state supervision after a CDCR prison term. Probation is a court supervision sentence or condition. PRCS is county supervision after release from CDCR for eligible people. Butte County Probation handles local probation and PRCS, while the CDCR Division of Adult Parole Operations handles state parole through offices such as the Chico parole unit.

Parole: State supervision after a CDCR prison term or parole-related release.
Probation: County court supervision instead of, or after, custody.
PRCS: County supervision after CDCR release for eligible people discharged from CDCR jurisdiction.
Discharge: The end of custody or supervision obligations in the relevant system.

Butte Probation lists an Oroville office at 18 County Center Drive and a Chico office at 1370 Ridgewood Drive, Suite 22. The Chico parole unit is also on Ridgewood Drive, but in Suite 14. The addresses are close, but the legal systems are different.

Butte County Federal Transfers

Federal and immigration releases are separate from Butte County jail releases. If a weekly booking log or court record points to a federal warrant, detainer, production order, ICE interest, or USMS custody, treat the jail release as a possible transfer until the receiving system is checked. The BOP locator can show federal inmates from 1982 onward, and BOP explains that a past date with no facility location means the person was released from BOP custody on that date.

ICE ODLS is relevant only when immigration custody is involved. ICE attorney resources state that ODLS includes people currently in ICE custody or released from ICE custody within the last 60 days. Local reporting described ICE interest in 52 of more than 8,700 Butte bookings, with six arrests by federal agents among California Values Act cases discussed. Use that as a careful local transfer note, not as a reason to assume ICE involvement in ordinary jail releases.

Butte Released vs Custody Lookup

A current-custody search answers where someone is now. A release search asks when and why a custody event ended. Mixing those questions leads to bad results, especially in Butte County, where the public jail artifact is a weekly booking log rather than a live release list.

Question	Best source	Limit
Was the person booked in Butte County?	BCSO weekly booking logs	Not a current release status.
Did custody status change?	California VINE	Not a full court or charge history.
Why did the jail event end?	Butte Superior Court	May not show exact door-release time.
What is the formal jail release record?	Sheriff's Records Office	Redactions and CPRA limits may apply.
Was it a state-prison release?	CDCR, BPH, DAPO, or PRCS	Not a county jail release list.
Was it federal or immigration custody?	BOP, ICE ODLS, USMS, federal court	Separate from Butte County jail records.

Butte Release Records and Relief

Release is not the same as sealing, dismissal, or record relief. A person can be released from jail and still have a public case. A person can receive later relief and still have some historical court traces depending on record type and access rules. California Courts self-help explains arrest sealing when an arrest did not result in conviction, and the California DOJ explains automatic record relief notations under Penal Code sections 851.93 and 1203.425.

Use Butte court records first to see whether charges were filed, dismissed, sentenced, diverted, or otherwise resolved. Then use court self-help or clerk resources when relief or sealing may apply. An online absence should not be treated as proof that the jail event never happened.

Note: Juvenile records and sealed court matters use different access rules, and adult jail booking-log methods should not be applied to minors.

Butte County Release Facilities

Butte County release research often starts at the jail, but the map includes alternative custody, juvenile detention, court records, state release systems, parole and probation offices, and federal or immigration systems. Each link below points to the system that may hold the release, supervision, transfer, or records-request answer.

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