Real County Same-Day Release Route
There is no official Real County 24-hour release webpage, downloadable list, roster filter, or public archive. The Real County Sheriff page instead points custody checks to VINELink and gives the office contact needed to trace a booking. It publishes no update schedule or online retention period. That absence does not mean the Sheriff keeps no release record. It means the record must be obtained from the correct custodian.
Start with the Real County booking. Ask where the person was physically held during the exact rolling day at issue. Real County has historically housed people in other counties, so the Sheriff may control the arrest, transport, and case-linked disposition while a receiving jail controls the physical exit entry. Compare both records. Different agencies can assign different booking numbers to the same person.
Check Real County 24-Hour Releases
Define the window before contacting an office. Use a start and end time in Central Time, not the vague word “today.” A rolling interval may cross midnight. It should also state whether transfers must remain in the response. For one named person, the broader Real County released inmate search path adds court, state, and federal checks.
- Write the exact Central Time start and end timestamps for the prior 24 hours.
- Call the Real County Sheriff at 830-232-5201 and ask which facility physically held the person or group during that range.
- Request the existing release log or export from the Sheriff. Keep the release timestamp, disposition, releasing authority, and destination fields.
- If another jail held the person, send the same focused request to that physical custodian and preserve the Real County booking or cause link.
- Cross-check each possible match in Texas VINE and the relevant court file, then record when each source was checked.
A list supplied in response to a request is a snapshot, not a live dashboard. Put the response date next to it. If the agency says no compiled list exists, ask for the existing log or export that holds the requested fields. The Public Information Act requires access to identifiable existing records, but it does not require staff to create a new analysis.
When the likely event falls before the rolling cutoff, use the Real County 72-Hour Release List process with a wider, exact interval.
Real County Release Fields to Request
Because Real County posts no same-day list, no public set of displayed fields can be promised. Ask the custodian to retain the fields below from its existing release log. Request a code legend too. A disposition code may distinguish a bond release from a transfer even when a short text label does not.
| Field | What it establishes |
|---|---|
| Name and identifier | Links the row to the correct person despite common names or spelling differences. |
| Booking number and time | Connects the release to a specific custody episode. |
| Holding and releasing facility | Shows which agency had physical control at the end. |
| Release date and time | Places the exit inside or outside the defined 24-hour interval. |
| Disposition and authority | Identifies bond, time served, court order, sentence discharge, or another coded basis. |
| Destination or receiving agency | Separates return to the community from transfer to another custodian. |
Charges, cause numbers, bond details, detainer disposition, and custody-transfer history can help reconcile the row with the court and Real County files. They may be held in separate records. A clerk’s docket can show that release was ordered, yet the jail’s entry is the source for when physical custody changed.
Request Real County Release Records
The Real County public-information channel accepts requests by mail at P.O. Box 446, Leakey, TX 78873, by fax at 830-232-6040, or by hand delivery to the County Judge’s office at the courthouse, 146 Highway 83 South. The Sheriff may be contacted directly at P.O. Box 445, Leakey, TX 78873-0445, phone 830-232-5201, or fax 830-232-5102. Route the request to the office that holds the record.
Ask for “the existing booking and release log for the stated start timestamp through the stated end timestamp, Central Time.” State that the output should retain the booking number, arresting and holding agencies, release time, release disposition and code legend, authority, destination, transfer history, bond data, and cause number. Specify whether transfers should remain included. If a field is withheld, ask for all segregable public parts and the legal basis for withholding.
County fee information lists letter-size copies at $0.10 per page and labor at $15 per hour, with no labor charge for 50 or fewer paper pages. Nonstandard copies can cost more. An estimate above $100 may require a bond, deposit, or prepayment, and a requester must respond to an estimate within ten days. The Act calls for prompt production under the circumstances; it does not promise delivery within a fixed ten-day period.
Real County Release or Transfer
“Released” must be tied to an agency. A bond, time-served, dismissal, or court-ordered release may return someone to the community. A transfer ends one jail’s custody but begins another agency’s control. Movement to TDCJ, a federal unit, ICE, or a contract jail is not the same as being free of custody. Real County’s small local jail function makes this distinction central.
| Record result | Meaning | Next check |
|---|---|---|
| Still in custody | The feeding jail reports current control. | Confirm the facility and booking identifier. |
| Released from jail | That jail’s custody ended. | Read the disposition and destination. |
| Transferred | Custody continued with another agency. | Check the receiving jail, TDCJ, BOP, or ICE. |
| No result | The search did not return a match. | Check spelling, identifiers, agency coverage, and records. |
Texas VINE can corroborate the status reported by a participating source. For a state-prison transfer or discharge, use the TDCJ offender search and records channels. Court orders explain legal authority, while the custodian’s release entry proves the completed event.
Note: An online status may change before all linked court, transport, and release records are indexed by their separate custodians.
Outside Custody Changes Real Releases
Texas Commission on Jail Standards snapshots have shown people attributed to Real County while zero were held in the local facility. Historical county check registers also document detention payments to several receiving counties. These dated records do not identify the current custodian for a named person, and they do not prove an exclusive contract. They do show why a local disappearance cannot safely be read as a release.
Ask the Sheriff for custody-location history and the receiving agency. Then request the physical jail’s exit log. The Real County record should retain the arrest and cause connection, while the other jail’s record supplies the gate or transfer time. VINE is a useful third check when that agency participates. A commercial “recent inmate” page is not an official release window and supplies no dependable update interval.
When Real County Sentences Discharge
Texas Code of Criminal Procedure article 43.13 generally directs a sheriff or jail administrator to release a defendant between 6 a.m. and 5 p.m. on the day the person discharges a sentence. Listed exceptions include transfer to another state, a federal unit, TDCJ, or a contract facility. This state rule is useful because Real County publishes no release-desk hours.
The statute does not set the timing for every release. It does not establish bond-processing hours, a weekend practice, an exit door, or a property-return procedure for Real County. Use it only for the sentence-discharge event it addresses. For a same-day check, ask the physical custodian for the actual release timestamp and the rule or order that supported it.
Release types also change which follow-up record matters. A bond release should connect to the bond and court docket. Time served or sentence discharge should connect to the judgment, time calculation, and completed jail entry. A dismissal order can explain the legal basis but still may precede the physical exit. Probation is court-ordered community supervision and may begin after local custody. Parole or mandatory supervision follows state-prison custody and should be checked with TDCJ.
When the log says “released to” another agency, treat that phrase as a handoff. A transfer to TDCJ begins state custody. A transfer to ICE ends county custody but begins immigration custody. Federal and contract-jail transfers require the named receiving source. Ask for the destination, transport time, and receiving authority so the row is not mislabeled as a community release.
Keep a small audit trail for each check: the requested interval, response date, person identifiers, Sheriff booking number, receiving-jail number, exact disposition, and source office. The Real County District Clerk is the official route for the linked felony court file. This is especially useful when an event occurs close to midnight or when two agencies record different stages. Do not alter an agency’s wording. Record it first, then explain what the custodian confirms.