No Hardin Three-Day Feed
The official-source review found no sheriff page that displays Hardin County releases for the past 72 hours. There is also no verified public roster, downloadable release report, mobile app, or stated update schedule. The Hardin County Jail’s telephone and records route must therefore lead the search rather than sit behind an online list.
Call 618-287-2271 and ask whether an aggregate movement report can be supplied. If staff cannot confirm it by phone, submit a narrow written request. Do not substitute a similarly named Hardin County facility in Kentucky, Iowa, Tennessee, or Texas. Those systems do not report Illinois custody.
Check Hardin Three-Day Releases
A three-day check works best as a record-reconciliation task. One source shows physical movement, another may show legal authority, and a receiving system may show that custody continued.
- Choose exact beginning and ending timestamps, including the time zone, rather than naming three calendar dates alone.
- Contact the Hardin County Jail at 104 E. Market St., Elizabethtown, and ask for release and transfer movements within that range.
- Ask for name, booking number, release or transfer time, type, authority, court reference, and destination or receiving agency.
- Check the Hardin County Judici docket for a bond, pretrial-release, disposition, sentencing, mittimus, or custody order tied to the person.
- Review Illinois VINE for the participating agency’s current status and last update. Treat it as an alert and status layer, not a certified document.
- If the movement was to IDOC, follow the person in the state Individual in Custody Search rather than labeling the jail departure a community release.
For an event limited to today, the Hardin County 24-hour releases guide narrows the same process to a one-day interval.
Hardin Three-Day Record Fields
No official online columns are available to describe. The table instead identifies fields supported as precise request targets by the Hardin research and jail-inspection standards.
| Requested field | Why it matters |
|---|---|
| Full name and identifier | Reduces false matches and links the movement to one booking. |
| Booking or admission time | Defines the custody episode covered by the departure. |
| Release or transfer time | Places the event inside or outside the fixed 72-hour range. |
| Movement type and reason | Separates bond, pretrial release, sentence served, discharge, and transfer. |
| Authority and court reference | Identifies the order or legal basis for staff action. |
| Destination or receiving agency | Distinguishes return to the community from continued custody. |
| Originating agency or county | Helps when Hardin housed a detainee connected to Pope or Gallatin County. |
Ask for the native electronic report if the jail system can export one. A native report may preserve timestamps and movement codes more clearly than a recreated summary.
Weekend Hardin Release Checks
A 72-hour range can bridge Friday evening through Monday morning, but it does not guarantee that every relevant record has been entered, reviewed, or made available at the same pace. Court authority can precede the jail’s execution time. Staff may also need to clear another hold, confirm identity, return property, or document a transfer before the movement is complete.
Set the request range wide enough to cover the actual uncertainty and state the endpoints. If a holiday extends the gap, use a longer fixed period instead of forcing the event into a nominal three-day list. Preserve the response date because a later correction or completed entry may change what a status tool shows.
Request Hardin Release Records
Address a written Illinois FOIA request to the Hardin County Sheriff/Jail, 104 E. Market St., P.O. Box 246, Elizabethtown, IL 62931. The 2022 inspection listed sheriff@hardincountyil.gov. Call first to verify the current FOIA officer and email because no official sheriff request form or named officer was found.
Request the jail movement report covering the exact timestamps and ask that it separate community releases from transfers. Seek booking number, admission time, departure time, exact reason and authority, court reference, destination, receiving agency, and originating agency where maintained. Ask for electronic delivery and the native format.
If material is withheld, request the nonexempt remainder after redaction and the specific statutory basis for each withheld part. Juvenile, sealed, expunged, safety-sensitive, investigatory, victim, witness, and personal information may be restricted. A public body cannot require its own form as the only way to submit an Illinois FOIA request.
Illinois 72-Hour Rule Explained
Illinois FOIA contains a 72-hour provision that can be confused with a release-list requirement. Section 2.15 concerns specified, chronologically maintained arrest-report information. It generally requires that covered arrest information be furnished as soon as practical and no later than 72 hours after the arrest, subject to statutory limits.
That rule does not create a Hardin County 72-hour release web page. It does not require the sheriff to leave a release entry online for three days, and it does not set the update cycle for a release feed. Arrest time and release time are separate events. Cite the actual movement range when seeking releases and avoid presenting the arrest-information deadline as a promise about release data.
Note: The number “72” describes two different concepts here; only one is the chosen release-search window.
Six-Bed Jail Record Quirks
The IDOC inspection described the Hardin County Jail as a six-bed facility with three double cells. It also reported that Hardin could house Pope and Gallatin County detainees when needed. A three-day report may therefore include people whose criminal cases or arresting agencies are outside Hardin County even though they physically left the Hardin jail.
Request the committing or arresting county and originating agency when those items are maintained. Most important, require a movement type and receiving agency. A person transferred back to another county has left Hardin’s building but has not been released from custody. The same is true of an IDOC, federal, ICE, medical, or other custodial transfer.
A commercial roster disappearance has no evidentiary value, especially when no official feed exists for comparison. The sheriff record, receiving-system confirmation, and court order form the reliable chain.
Match the Hardin Release Channel
Use Illinois VINE when the goal is a quick status check or future notification. Select Illinois, search the person, confirm the reporting agency, and read the exact status and update time. If the result conflicts with the jail, call both sources. VINE receives data from participating systems and may not explain the legal reason or destination.
Use IDOC only for state prison custody or for a person still under IDOC jurisdiction on parole or mandatory supervised release. Its public search generally stops returning people after the entire sentence and supervision have ended, at which point an archived record may be needed. Use Judici for the Hardin court order or disposition. None of those sources replaces the county movement line.
How Long Hardin Records Last
No official rule was found for how long a Hardin release entry would remain visible online because no public feed was located. Underlying jail records can persist after a short public display would have vanished. Ask three distinct questions: how long an entry is publicly visible, how long the source booking and release record is retained, and whether older records are moved into an archive.
For a named person and a broader source-by-source route, use the Hardin County released-inmate search. It helps distinguish the jail event from court disposition, state custody, and final discharge.