Clinton County 72-Hour Releases
The Clinton County Sheriff does not provide a public three-day release feed, searchable archive, or current-custody roster that can be filtered into a 72-hour view. The official local method is person-specific. The County Inmate Information page says release-date information is available at 989-403-5090. The Sheriff also publishes 989-227-6580 for general jail and inmate information.
A 72-hour interval is a research boundary, not a County product. Define it with exact start and end dates and times. This matters when the span crosses midnight, a weekend, or a holiday. If a person is known, ask when Clinton County Jail custody ended and whether the exit was a release or transfer. For a complete interval, ask whether an existing jail report already covers those dates. The agency need not make a custom list when none exists.
Clinton County Jail houses local prisoners and boarders from federal, state, and other county governments. A three-day departure set can therefore contain very different events. Bond, a court order, or completion of county time may end in community release. An MDOC, USMS, BOP, or outside-county handoff ends the local jail stay but continues custody.
Check Clinton County Three-Day Releases
Start with the question the evidence can answer. One named person calls for direct jail confirmation. A set of all departures calls for an existing report or identifiable release entries. A court register can explain a bond, dismissal, judgment, or sentence, but it rarely establishes the minute jail staff finished processing. Use each source for its own role.
- Write down the precise 72-hour start and end timestamps. Include the intended local time and do not use only “over the weekend.”
- For one person, call 989-403-5090 with the full name, date of birth when appropriate, and approximate booking date. Ask for the release date and release-versus-transfer result.
- For the full window, ask whether an existing report or release log is maintained. If so, request that record by name and date range under Michigan FOIA.
- If no compiled report exists, seek the identifiable booking and release entries for that interval rather than asking the Sheriff to create a narrative.
- Compare the response with court action and the destination system when a transfer or another hold is possible.
Use the Clinton County 24-hour jail release process when only the most recent day matters. It uses a tighter interval and places more weight on immediate phone confirmation.
Note: Keep the County response and the interval wording together so the result is not later mistaken for a rolling online feed.
Clinton County Three-Day Fields
Because no official 72-hour page exists, no public field labels, photo field, update cycle, or retention term can be quoted. The official jail page confirms release-date information by phone. Other details below are sensible targets for a narrow request only. Their presence and names depend on the existing Clinton County record.
| Request target | Reason for requesting it |
|---|---|
| Name and booking number | Connects the entry to the correct person and local custody episode. |
| Booking timestamp | Shows the start of the jail episode and helps define the requested range. |
| Release timestamp | Places the recorded jail exit inside or outside the exact 72-hour span. |
| Disposition or type | May distinguish bond, court order, time served, sentence completion, or transfer. |
| Releasing authority | May connect the release to a court or other authorized action. |
| Destination, if recorded | Helps separate a handoff to another custodian from return to the community. |
These are not claimed feed columns. Phrase the request as “if recorded and disclosable.” If a booking sheet does not contain the exit, seek the release screen, movement log, or existing report that does. A useful production preserves field labels, because a date without its disposition or time zone can be misunderstood.
Clinton County Weekend Release Windows
The research found no published Clinton County weekend-release policy, release hour, exit door, waiting area, or holiday posting schedule. Do not infer any of those details from a three-day window. The interval is useful because it spans more calendar boundaries, not because the Sheriff promises a special weekend list.
Several dates can appear close together. A judge may sign an order. A bond may be posted. Jail staff may then verify the authority, check other holds, and process the exit. The physical release time can fall later than the court event. If another agency has a detainer, that authority may receive the person instead. A detainer is a legal request or basis for continued custody by someone else.
For a known case, check the Clinton County court-search routes for the judicial event, then confirm the actual release time with the jail. District Court 65A handles misdemeanors and felony preliminary stages. Circuit Court handles felony matters. Court records explain the legal path but do not replace the Sheriff’s operational release entry.
The official Clinton County search page shows where the local court routes begin.
The captured page supports checking the court event, while the jail remains the source for the completed physical release time.
When the window begins on Friday evening and ends Monday evening, use those exact timestamps. “Weekend” alone may omit a late Friday release or include part of Monday by mistake. A fixed interval also makes a later FOIA request easier to locate and review.
Clinton County 72-Hour Record Requests
The Clinton County FOIA procedures direct a focused request to Clinton County, Attn: FOIA Coordinator, 100 E. State Street, Suite 2100, St. Johns, MI 48879. The County also identifies admin@clinton-county.org and fax 989-224-5102. State the jail, the exact three-day interval, and the existing report or release-entry fields sought. Ask first for electronic delivery if that is suitable.
Michigan FOIA, MCL 15.231 et seq., covers existing public records subject to exemptions. Clinton County generally must respond within five business days by granting, denying with legal grounds, granting in part, or issuing one extension notice for up to ten more business days. Production can take longer. Permitted fees may include labor and media. The policy caps letter or legal paper at $0.10 per sheet, and estimates above $50 may support a deposit of up to one-half.
If the estimate is high, narrow the dates, omit duplicate correspondence, request native electronic format, or inspect before selecting copies. If part is withheld, ask for the readily separable nonexempt material. Keep a log of the request wording, submission, acknowledgment, extension, estimate, payment, and response. That record shows exactly what the resulting three-day set represents.
Clinton County Release Destination Checks
A jail departure record identifies the end of local custody. A second source may be needed to determine what followed. OTIS is the Michigan Department of Corrections system for prison, parole, MDOC-supervised felony probation, and recent discharges. It does not include jail-only cases. Search by MDOC number when known, or by name and supported filters. Read `STATUS`, `LOCATION`, and `DATE PAROLED` separately.
A VINE alert can report a release, transfer, or escape event when the agency supplies it. Registering before the event is best. The alert is not a permanent historical archive and does not prove that no other agency took custody. For federal boarders, PACER can show the federal court action, USMS records address pretrial or transport custody, and the BOP locator covers sentenced federal custody. ICE has its own locator for current or recent immigration detention.
When one name is the goal, the Clinton County released inmates search path organizes the custody, court, state, notification, and records channels around that person.
| Community release | Confirm through the Clinton jail release entry and the related court authority. |
|---|---|
| MDOC transfer | Use OTIS after state intake; the person remains incarcerated. |
| Federal handoff | Follow the federal case and USMS or BOP custody trail. |
| Outside-county return | Contact the originating jail or court named in the transfer record. |
Note: A three-day release set is complete only for the custodian and record scope named in the response.
Clinton County Release Archive Limits
A 2019 county document mentioned “Police to Citizen – Jail mugshots.” No functioning current P2C release roster was found in the official site, sitemap, or Sheriff navigation. That historic reference cannot establish a modern 72-hour archive, app, image field, publication schedule, or retention period.
The present source is the phone-based release-date instruction. Historic links and search snippets can remain visible after a platform changes. Treat them as evidence of past platform history, not a current lookup path. Do not copy a current-custody result into a three-day list, and do not fill the gap with a commercial compilation.
Online removal and record destruction are also different. A record can stop appearing on a web page while the underlying jail entry remains subject to an approved retention schedule. Clinton’s current online absence says nothing precise about how long each booking or release field is retained. If the County says a requested item is no longer held, ask which general or agency-specific schedule item applied.