Find Decker Release Records

Decker Release Record Status

The Dallas County Sheriff inmate handbook identifies Decker Detention Center as closed. That single fact controls the search. Decker is not one of the current destinations shown by the Dallas County Jail Lookup, and it should not be called for a person booked now. An older paper or court entry may still use the Decker name because it describes where someone was held at that time. The name remains useful as a record clue, but it does not turn the former building into a live jail.

Historical Decker custody belonged to the Dallas County system. The Sheriff is therefore the first records custodian for an old booking or release transaction. A useful request supplies the full name, date of birth when known, approximate booking and release range, old booking or case number, and the Decker facility name. Ask for existing records, including the booking sheet and release screen or log. The record itself may show the actual time, release type, and destination.

Confirm a Decker Release

A Dallas County release transaction is the best source for physical departure from Decker. Court files explain why custody may have changed, while the Sheriff record establishes what the jail did. Use both when the exact event matters. A signed bond order, dismissal, time-served judgment, sentence, or commitment can explain the legal cause. It cannot show whether another hold delayed departure or whether Dallas County transferred the person elsewhere.

Follow a narrow sequence so that the agency boundary stays clear:

1. Collect name variants, date of birth, booking dates, case numbers, and any Decker document already held.
2. Search the Dallas Courts Portal and match the cause, court, charge, and dates.
3. Submit a Dallas Sheriff public-information request for the existing booking and release transaction.
4. Ask for the actual release date and time, disposition, destination, receiving agency, and any transfer or hold indicator that is public.
5. If the record names TDCJ, federal authority, ICE, another county, or a city jail, continue with that custodian.

The broader Dallas County released inmate search and records coverage explains those county, state, federal, and immigration channels. Do not use a current Dallas lookup failure as a substitute for this historical chain.

Decker Release Record Fields

The Sheriff’s public jail interface does not display a release transaction. A focused historical request should seek the fields needed to connect a person, a booking, and the final Dallas County action. Exact labels can vary, so request any existing code legend rather than interpreting a short disposition code without context.

Online visibility and retention are different. The absence of an old Decker name from a web tool does not mean the Sheriff destroyed the record. Texas State Library schedules supply a retention framework, but local adoption and litigation or audit holds affect actual retention. Ask the custodian what remains for the date at issue.

Decker Records in Jail History

Dallas County’s jail names changed as the system grew. Lew Sterrett replaced George Allen as the main county jail after its completion in 1983. George Allen is now depopulated. The Old Jail and Decker are closed. North Tower opened in 1993, and Suzanne Lee Kays, also called South Tower, was completed in 2008. This history explains why an old file may name Decker while a current search lists a tower at the Lew Sterrett complex.

Do not silently update an old facility name to a modern one. Preserve “Decker Detention Center” when it appears in the source record, then state that it is a historical Dallas County facility. If a later document shows movement to Lew Sterrett or another tower, that is an internal housing change unless the release transaction says Dallas County custody ended. Moving between county buildings is not release.

Depopulated

A facility no longer housing people, though records from prior use remain.

Transfer

Movement to another facility or custodian, which may end one agency’s custody without community release.

Release transaction

The jail record of the actual custody-ending event, time, type, and destination.

Disposition

The legal outcome of a case, which may explain but does not timestamp physical departure.

Decker Transfer Destinations

A historical Decker release code may describe several very different outcomes. Cash, surety, or personal bond may have led to the community after all holds cleared. A dismissal, acquittal, court order, time-served judgment, or completion of a county sentence could also lead to community release. Other entries can reflect a move to TDCJ, federal custody, ICE, another county, or another local jail. Death is also a possible custody-ending disposition. The produced record, not a generic label, controls.

A Dallas County handoff to TDCJ is a transfer into state imprisonment. TDCJ’s online offender search includes only people currently incarcerated, so it cannot serve as a lasting historical discharge archive. Federal BOP records may retain a “Released” or “Not in BOP Custody” result, but that phrase applies only to BOP. ICE status belongs with the ICE Online Detainee Locator System. Always write released from which agency.

When sources disagree, keep their timestamps. A court order can precede jail processing, and a receiving system may not display intake at once. The Sheriff transaction connects the old Decker event to the next custodian.

Decker Releases and ICE Holds

Dallas County Jail has documented ICE inspection and use history. A federal immigration detainer can request that a local agency maintain custody for up to 48 hours beyond the otherwise applicable release time, excluding weekends and holidays. A Decker-era record that names ICE should therefore be described as release from Dallas County to ICE, not as release to the community.

Use the ICE Online Detainee Locator System when the Sheriff transaction identifies an ICE handoff. Search by A-number and country of birth, or by exact biographical details supported by the interface. ODLS has age, spelling, lag, and retention limits. A failed search does not undo the county transfer record. ICE field-office or records channels may be needed for an older event.

Note: An ICE detainer or transfer changes the custodian; it does not turn a Dallas County release date into proof of community freedom.

Decker Historical Record Contacts

Because the building is closed, the useful contacts are records offices rather than a Decker front desk. Dallas County Jail Information can clarify current county custody. The Sheriff public-information channel handles requests for a retained booking sheet, release screen or log, transfer destination, and booking photograph. For older legal outcomes, choose the clerk by case level.

The District Clerk maintains felony records and Lew Sterrett Magistrate Court records. Its criminal-record desk is at 133 N. Riverfront Boulevard, second floor, Dallas, with phone 214-653-5950. The County Clerk maintains Class A and B misdemeanor records in Room A-1 at the same justice complex, with phone 214-653-7099. A clerk document may prove the legal disposition, but the Sheriff record remains the stronger source for the physical Decker release.