Meade Detention Release Destinations
Meade County Detention Center is a county jail operated through the elected Meade County Jailer. Jailer J.J. Scarborough is named on the official county directory. That structure matters because a jail release-record request should begin with the Detention Center or its official custodian, not be sent to the Sheriff’s Office on the assumption that the sheriff keeps jailer records.
A community release may follow bond, a court order, time served, dismissal, acquittal, or completion of a county sentence. The jail’s final release transaction should state the time and disposition. Another endpoint is a transfer. A move to the Kentucky Department of Corrections, another county jail, the U.S. Marshals Service, or immigration custody ends the Meade booking without establishing that the person is free in the community.
| Recorded endpoint | Next place to verify |
|---|---|
| Community or bond release | Final jail transaction, VINE, and court order |
| Transfer to KDOC | KOOL state offender record and VINE DOC record |
| Transfer to another jail | Receiving jail and its VINE record |
| Federal transfer | Federal court docket, then BOP after commitment |
| Immigration transfer | ICE locator within its limited coverage window |
Confirm Meade Detention Releases
The jail website links a product called the “Current Inmate List.” It is a present-custody roster, not a released-person archive. A missing name is a reason to investigate, but it does not disclose the time, legal basis, or destination of a release. No official Meade 24-hour or 72-hour public release feed was verified.
Use a custody ladder and stop when an agency-created record resolves the endpoint:
- Check the Meade current roster once and record the booking number if the person still appears.
- Search Kentucky VINE by name or jail identifier and read the agency, status, and release date.
- Call the Detention Center to ask whether it can confirm current custody or a processed release.
- Request the final booking and release transaction for the exact event.
- Check KOOL when a felony sentence, state transfer, parole, or probation may apply.
- Use the court judgment, bond order, or docket to explain the legal authority for the event.
A VINE local-jail result and a KOOL record can both be correct. One may show that Meade custody ended while the other shows that KDOC custody began. The full Meade County released inmate search separates county, state, court, and federal channels for a named person.
Meade Detention Records Contact
The official Meade County Detention Center directory supplies the operator and contact route. The directory does not publish lobby or records hours, so call before visiting. Ask whether a written request should go directly to the jail’s custodian or through another named county office.
Meade County Detention Center
Jailer: J.J. Scarborough
Address: 516 Hillcrest Drive, Brandenburg, KY 40108
Phone: 270-422-2546
Fax: 270-422-4016
Hours: Call before visiting
The county-wide open-records portal accepts an online submission and lists mail and email routes through Fiscal Court. Meade County Fiscal Court is at 516 Hillcrest Drive, Suite 12, Brandenburg, KY 40108, and the published email is openrecordsrequest@meadeky.gov. If Fiscal Court is not the keeper, ask it to identify or route the request to the jail custodian.
The official facility page below helps confirm that the request is being directed to the jailer-operated detention center, not a different Hillcrest Drive office.
The county portal asks for requester identity and contact information, Kentucky residency details, the requested record, preferred format, and delivery method. Describe the specific booking rather than asking for every record about a name. Electronic delivery can reduce reproduction cost. If the Detention Center maintains a separate process, follow the custodian information it supplies and retain that routing response.
The county listing establishes the local contact point used to verify a release and locate the proper records custodian.
Get Meade Detention Records
Ask for an existing record, not a custom explanation. A focused request identifies the person, approximate booking date, and a non-sensitive matching detail. Request the final booking and release record, including the booking number, admission date and time, release date and time, release type or disposition, and receiving agency if transferred. A booking photograph may be requested with it.
Kentucky’s Open Records Act permits delivery to the official custodian by hand, mail, fax, or email. KRS 61.880 generally requires a comply-or-deny decision within five days, excluding weekends and legal holidays. A denial must cite and explain an exception. Meade’s portal publishes ten cents per written page and actual economical reproduction cost for photographs or electronic material.
Retention of a public roster entry is not published. The current list may drop the person after release, but its timing is not guaranteed. The final written transaction is the stronger historic source. If part of the document is exempt, ask for segregable, nonexempt fields and the legal basis for each withheld part.
For an error, send the creating office the official document that conflicts with its entry. Include the booking number, case number, and exact field at issue. A vague report that the whole record is wrong is harder to resolve. The jail has published an invitation to report inmate-record errors, but any correction still depends on its verification of the source data.
Meade Bond Release Details
The jail’s official bond page gives local operational detail but also contains wording that needs live confirmation. It directs property bonds and certain larger cash bonds to the Circuit Clerk. Two cash thresholds stated on that older page are not fully consistent. Call the clerk at 270-422-4961 before relying on either threshold or traveling with funds.
After the Circuit Clerk closes, the page directs a bond poster to the Detention Center lobby and says to press the assistance button. It calls for valid identification and exact cash because the jail says it has no ATM and cannot make change. Those instructions describe how the paperwork may begin after hours. They do not promise a fixed release hour or immediate exit.
The Meade jail bond information page is shown below as the official source for those directions. Confirm its older procedural text by telephone before acting.
A bond order supplies legal authority. The jail release transaction remains the record of the physical custody endpoint.
Meade Release Pickup Planning
No official source identifies a regular release hour, exit door, family waiting area, bus stop, shuttle, or weekend pickup plan. Do not infer those details from the street address. Call 270-422-2546 before traveling and ask where a released person exits, where a ride may wait, and whether staff can provide an estimated process status.
Release timing can follow court paperwork, bond processing, identity checks, sentence calculation, property return, and review for holds. A court order does not certify the exact moment someone walked out. When a detainer or receiving agency is involved, the person may leave the Meade record through a controlled transfer rather than a public pickup.
Meade Release Versus Transfer
A felony transfer to KDOC is a new custody stage. Search KOOL by name or offender number, confirm identity, and inspect status, institution, supervision, conviction, and date fields. Kentucky’s Daily Releases archive is useful only when the person was released from state authority. It is not a Meade County recent-release list.
Federal and immigration paths also require precise language. The U.S. Marshals Service has no public historical release locator. A federal court docket and bond or release order are the durable pretrial sources. After a federal sentence and commitment, use the BOP Locator. An ICE detainer can lead to an agency transfer, and the ICE locator covers current custody plus some releases within a limited recent period. No Meade ICE detention contract was verified.
- Release
- The ending of one agency’s custody record.
- Transfer
- Movement from one agency or facility into another’s custody.
- Parole
- Release from prison while state supervision continues.
- Discharge
- A later end of the correctional authority reflected in the state record.
Meade Detention Center Context
The facility lists church services, Narcotics Anonymous, Alcoholics Anonymous, GED, NCRC, Moral Reconation Therapy, and MRT Parenting among in-custody programs. These facts describe facility programming. They do not establish that the same services are available after release or that a particular person took part.
The jail also publishes an invitation to report inmate-record errors so it can try to verify and correct them. Preserve a screenshot, booking number, and the exact disputed field. Direct a jail record error to the Detention Center, a KOOL error to KDOC, and a judgment error to the court clerk. Each office controls its own record.
Meade’s jail, Circuit Clerk, Sheriff, and Fiscal Court use the same Hillcrest Drive address with different suites or facility descriptions. “Go to the courthouse” is too vague. Identify whether the task is posting bond with the clerk, seeking a jail release record, contacting the sheriff, or using the county open-records route before arriving.
Keep the date and agency label with every result. Dynamic roster, VINE, KOOL, and court information can change after it is viewed. When two systems conflict, the final transaction created by the agency ending custody should control that agency’s endpoint, while the receiving agency’s record resolves what happened next.