Dickinson Detention Release Outcomes
Dickinson County Detention Facility is the county's verified long-term jail. It holds adults booked through the sheriff and local law-enforcement process. A city arrest from Abilene, Herington, Enterprise, or Chapman can result in a county booking even though the arrest began with a city police agency. The county jail, not the arresting department, is the source for the completed book-out.
A county booking may end through posted bond, completion of a local sentence, dismissal, probation, or another court order. Those events can lead to community release after all conditions and holds clear. The same booking can also end because the person is committed to the Kansas Department of Corrections, moved to another jail, or handed to federal or immigration custody.
| Outcome | Meaning | Next record |
|---|---|---|
| Bond | The case continues outside jail after conditions and holds clear. | Court order and actual county book-out |
| Time served or probation | The local custody term ends, though supervision or other duties may remain. | Sentence, release record, and supervision office |
| Dismissal | That case may no longer support detention, but another hold can. | Disposition and jail destination |
| KDOC commitment | The county episode ends through transfer to state custody. | KASPER intake and movement record |
| USMS, ICE, or another jail | Dickinson relinquishes custody to another authority. | Receiving agency or court record |
Confirm Dickinson Detention Release
The official Tyler/NewWorld Inmate Inquiry is a current-custody starting point. Its default In Custody control is checked. Direct testing on July 18, 2026 found only results marked In Custody: Yes, including a broad booking-date test. No public released, recent-release, 24-hour, or 72-hour archive was verified.
- Search the official Dickinson County roster by name and record the subject and booking numbers.
- Call the jail at 785-263-4734. Ask whether that booking closed and whether the public record identifies actual book-out and community release versus transfer.
- Review the Kansas court case for the bond order, dismissal, sentence, probation, commitment, or other authority.
- Request the booking/release sheet or jail ledger entry when the precise time, release status, or destination matters.
- If the answer is transfer, search the receiving system rather than describing a community release.
The Dickinson County released inmate search and record hub gives the full county, court, KASPER, VINELink, BOP, USMS, and ICE sequence. A second name search is useful, but repeating it cannot replace the record tied to the booking number.
Important: Roster disappearance cannot distinguish community release, transfer, a search mismatch, or a data update.
Dickinson Detention Release Fields
An individual Tyler detail record has a richer schema than the result list. It can contain timestamped booking photographs, booking history, Booking Date, Release Date, Scheduled Release Date, prisoner type, total bond and bail, bond details, charges, offense date, disposition, and arresting agency. A blank release field on a current booking is not an unknown date to calculate. It means no displayed release value has been populated for that booking.
| Field | How to read it |
|---|---|
| Subject number | Links a person across one or more booking histories. |
| Booking number | Identifies the exact admission and is the best request key. |
| Booking Date | Marks admission processing, not always arrest or filing time. |
| Scheduled Release Date | A prospective plan that can change. |
| Release Date | The administrative end of the booking when populated. |
| Bond and bail fields | Describe conditions but do not prove payment or book-out. |
| Charge and disposition | Help connect the booking to court, but should be checked against the court record. |
A release field should remain attached to its booking. Confusing a subject number with a booking number can attach an old outcome to a newer custody episode.
Dickinson Detention Release Records
Dickinson County routes open-record requests through County Clerk Jennifer Gaytan. The clerk coordinates with the office that holds the record, so a requester need not decide whether sheriff or detention staff maintains each component. Use the official open-records form.
Ask for an existing record: the booking/release sheet or jail ledger entry for the identified person and date range. Request the booking number, actual release date and time, status or destination if maintained, releasing authority, and associated booking photograph. Ask for electronic delivery and an itemized estimate before costs are incurred.
Dickinson County Clerk and KORA
Jennifer Gaytan
109 E. 1st St., Suite 207
Abilene, KS 67410
785-263-3774
Fax: 785-263-2045
jgaytan@dkcoks.gov
The 2026 fee schedule charges staff time at the preparer's hourly rate using the lowest-cost reasonable category. County-supplied electronic media may cost $15 when needed. Estimates beyond five staff hours or $200 in actual staff cost trigger cost-mitigation contact. KORA requires agency action by the end of the third business day, but that response may produce records, deny with legal grounds, or explain a delay.
Dickinson Detention Contact
The facility and sheriff use different public phone lines. Call the jail for a current book-out question. Sheriff records staff can help route record questions, while the county clerk is the formal open-records coordinator.
Dickinson County Detention Facility
109 E. 1st St., first floor
Abilene, KS 67410
Jail: 785-263-4734
Sheriff: 785-263-4081
Published sheriff office hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. No official release-record service hours or release-processing schedule was located.
The staff directory identifies Detention Center Administrator Stephen Kency at 785-263-4734. Sheriff records staff use 785-263-4081. Personnel assignments can change, so confirm the current contact before sending a request to a named staff member.
Note: Custody operations may continue around the clock, but that does not create a published public-service or book-out schedule.
Dickinson Detention Facility Facts
The sheriff describes a courthouse-integrated jail built in 2020 with capacity for 64 adults. The county's medical-services request confirms that the jail houses adult men and women. The 2024 sheriff annual report lists a captain, lieutenant, four sergeants, and twelve detention officers.
The 785 figure is a booking count, not a release count. A budget presentation reports 786 people, creating a one-person conflict. The dedicated annual report is the better source for the facility statistic, and the two figures should not be blended.
The official sheriff facility page provides the location and jail context shown below.
The image reflects the official county source, while the annual report supplies the dated operations figures.
Dickinson Detention Courthouse Location
The detention facility, District Court, sheriff records, and Community Corrections are concentrated at 109 E. 1st St. That unusual setup makes physical routing simple but increases the risk of treating separate offices as one record custodian.
District Court explains the order or disposition that authorized bond, probation, dismissal, commitment, or another result. Detention records the physical exit from the booking. Community Corrections manages qualifying intensive-supervision probation. The sheriff maintains custody records. Shared walls do not merge those roles.
The courthouse-integrated facility opened in 2020. No official release door, family waiting point, weekend release timetable, or pickup area was found. Confirm any practical arrival plan with the jail instead of assuming where or when book-out will finish.
Dickinson Detention Release or Transfer
Transfer is the central release false positive for this facility. The annual report notes that detention staff transport people to court, medical appointments, and other facilities. A county book-out to another custodian ends Dickinson custody but does not free the person.
| Destination | Correct follow-up | Limit |
|---|---|---|
| Kansas Department of Corrections | KASPER and KDOC movement records | Intake may appear after processing |
| Another county jail | Receiving jail roster or records office | Dickinson's exit does not show the later outcome |
| U.S. Marshals Service | Federal docket and USMS contact | No public historical locator like BOP |
| Federal Bureau of Prisons | BOP Inmate Locator after commitment | Does not explain a separate local booking by itself |
| ICE | ICE Online Detainee Locator for current detention | No match is not proof of immigration release |
No state prison, BOP prison, or ICE detention facility was identified in Dickinson County, and no current county ICE detention contract was verified. These systems are receiving paths in an individual case, not local facility claims. Reconcile the county destination, receiving record, and court or movement file before saying the person entered the community.
Dickinson Detention Actual Release
A court order and a jail book-out timestamp answer different questions. Bond authority does not prove bond was completed or another hold cleared. Dismissal of one charge does not rule out another case. A time-served or probation entry can lead to same-day release, but it does not give the exact physical exit time.
On or after a scheduled date, look for an actual Release Date and call the jail. If the precise time or type matters, request the release sheet. Ask whether the destination was the community or another custodian. Keep the court event time separate from the detention event time.
No official county release cadence or retention period for former online booking details was found. The durable path is the county record. That approach confirms the outcome without turning an absent roster result or unfilled field into a claim.
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