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Butler County Jail Release Paths

The official Butler County Jailer description identifies several paths out of the jail. A person may return to the community after bond, time served, a court order, or another approved local release. Someone may instead move into the court or regional-jail system. A state sentence may result in transfer to Kentucky Department of Corrections custody. The end of a Butler County Jail booking therefore does not always mean the person is free from custody.

The most useful local record is the booking and release record. Ask for the release date and time, release disposition or type, and the destination or receiving agency when the exit was a transfer and that field is public. A court order can explain the legal authority for bond, dismissal, probation, sentence, or release. It may not prove the precise moment the person left, since another hold can delay departure.

Confirm Butler Jail Release Records

No functioning official Butler County public roster or recent-release feed was verified. A missing name cannot prove release. Start with the jail office, then corroborate the stated disposition through the system that should receive the event. Kentucky VINE may show that a person is not in custody and give a release date when the local agency reports it. The Butler Circuit Court Clerk holds the trial-level order. KOOL is relevant only if state incarceration or active probation and parole follows.

1. Call the Butler County Jail office and identify the person by full name plus any known date of birth or booking number.
2. Ask whether the booking ended, the release date and time, the release disposition, and whether another agency received the person.
3. Check Kentucky VINE for a reported custody change, but allow for data lag.
4. Request the court order from the Butler Circuit Court Clerk when the exit depends on bond, dismissal, sentence, or probation.
5. Use KOOL only after a state transfer or release to KDOC supervision.

Request Butler Jail Release Records

Kentucky’s Open Records Act allows a written request that reasonably describes existing records. Butler County has not published a special jail form, email address, local fee schedule, or office hours. Call first to confirm the current custodian and accepted delivery method. Request an electronic copy when it is readily available, and ask for a fee estimate before copies are made.

Identify the booking with the full name, any known birth date or booking number, and an approximate booking date. Ask for booking and release date and time, release type, court and case number, and destination if the exit was a transfer. Charges at booking are allegations until resolved in court. Juvenile, sealed, expunged, medical, victim, confidential, and active-investigation material may be withheld or redacted under a cited legal basis.

KRS 61.880 generally calls for an agency response within five business days. KRS 61.874 limits noncommercial copy charges to actual reproduction cost, with mailing cost possible. The Act does not require staff to create a new report. For a date range, request any existing release log first, then ask whether public fields in the underlying records may be inspected if no report exists.

Butler County Jail Facts

Butler County operates a county-owned, full-service jail. The City of Morgantown comprehensive plan and KDOC’s January 22, 2026 Weekly Jail report each support a capacity of 36 beds. The weekly report was a one-day snapshot, not a current population gauge or annual release total. On that date it listed 50 people, including Class D inmates, controlled-intake inmates, and one parole violator. Those categories show why the jail population can include people at different stages of the Kentucky corrections process.

The official jailer page lists work release, home incarceration, substance-use counseling, domestic-violence and mental-health counseling, GED work, AA and NA, and Bible study. A program listing does not confirm that one named person took part or was released. It does help explain the jail’s stated role in moving people into court, a regional path, or back into the community.

Butler Jail Leadership Record

The stable contact is the office, not an old officeholder name. The official county page still names Wayne Russ, while credible local reporting says Kelli Fugate was sworn in during November 2025 after Russ died. That mismatch is a practical warning about web records. Call the published office number before addressing a request to a named jailer or planning an in-person visit.

The official page gives 110 N Main Street as the office contact. Another detention entrance has been reported elsewhere, but it was not confirmed on the official page. Do not assume the mailing office and secure entrance are the same place. The county contact should direct records requests, property questions, and visits to the proper location.

Note: Butler’s office contact is more reliable than the officeholder name displayed on a page that has not yet caught up with the leadership change.

Butler Jail Transfer Release Check

An ICE or U.S. Marshals Service transfer can make a person vanish from Butler custody without a community release. Research found no Butler County ICE detention contract, USMS facility, or federal prison. Still, another authority may act in an individual case. Ask the jail for the transfer disposition and receiving agency rather than guessing from a no-result.

ICE’s Online Detainee Locator is designed around current immigration detention. A no-result may reflect a transfer, recent processing, spelling variation, or custody elsewhere. USMS has no public historical-release locator comparable to the BOP tool. Combine the Butler County Jail transfer record, the receiving agency’s confirmation, and the relevant federal court docket. That chain is stronger than any single system’s silence.

Community release

The person leaves confinement, though court duties or supervision may remain.

Transfer

One agency ends its booking because another agency takes custody.

Detainer

A request or legal hold that may prevent ordinary release to the community.

Discharge

A later legal end to custody or supervision, not merely the jail-door exit.

Butler Jail Record Fields

A precise request reduces delay and helps the custodian identify the right booking. Ask for the admission date and time, booking agency, booking number, court and case number, and charges recorded at intake. If bond was involved, request the bond type, amount, and posting entry when those fields are releasable. Charges listed at booking are allegations, not findings of guilt, so the later court disposition must be checked separately.

The exit portion should identify the release date and time plus the disposition, such as bond, time served, court order, transfer, or sentence to another authority. When the person was transferred, request the destination or receiving agency if that field is public. A nonexempt release authorization or property-release receipt may answer a narrow question that the summary record does not. A booking photograph can also be requested, but Butler County has no verified public photo feed and no published booking-photo fee.

Online visibility and legal retention are different. Kentucky records remain subject to agency-specific retention schedules, and no source supports one universal Butler County jail-record retention period. A record may also be restricted by a juvenile rule, sealing order, or expungement. If material is withheld or redacted, the response should identify the legal basis rather than leave the requester to infer why a field is absent.

After Butler Jail Release

A released person may need a court file to understand the next hearing or a KOOL record to verify active probation or parole. Butler belongs to KDOC Probation and Parole District 2. A release onto supervision is not final discharge. For the broader named-person search and release-record path, use the Butler County released inmates search.

Kentucky VINE can add notice of a reported custody event, but it is not the originating release record. Court staff hold the order, jail staff hold the local exit record, and KDOC holds state custody and supervision data. Match the question to the office that owns the fact. This avoids treating a court order, alert, or locator status as more conclusive than it is.