Find Buzz Westfall Releases

To find someone released from the St. Louis County Jail at the Buzz Westfall Justice Center, first separate a community exit from a transfer to another authority. The county release record identifies what happened at this Missouri facility, while court and receiving-agency records explain why custody changed and where it continued. A person who is no longer held at Buzz Westfall may be home, in state custody, or with another agency. Reliable confirmation therefore follows the county’s final release entry through to the stated destination.

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Buzz Westfall Release Routes

The St. Louis County Department of Justice Services operates the county jail and its Intake Service Center, commonly shortened to ISC. The ISC accepts lawfully committed adults, processes admissions, and handles every county-jail release under Justice Services Policy 1420. General population custody and the intake function are parts of the same county detention system. People may arrive from county police, a municipal agency, a court, or another authority.

A Buzz Westfall release can end in several places. The policy lists bond, sentence expiration, court order, expiration of a 24-hour hold, citation or summons, paid fine or costs, pending warrant application, and mistaken identity among its release categories. It also lists transfer to the Missouri Department of Corrections, known as MODOC, and transfer to another authority. Those last two categories end the county booking but continue physical custody elsewhere.

County record resultLikely next stepBest confirmation
Community releaseExit through the release sallyportFinal IJMS entry and release packet
MODOC transferState custody continuesCounty destination plus MODOC offender result
Another authorityReceiving officers assume custodyCounty destination and receiving-agency record
Municipal wantA city may collect the personCounty record and municipal booking or transfer record

Buzz Westfall IJMS Release Record

Policy 1420 gives a clear administrative sequence. Staff first review the release authority for authenticity and make sure the names and identifying details match. Acceptable authority can include a bond, court order, release memorandum, or other authorized message. Staff then check for warrants, detainers, holds, and other matters that could stop a community exit or change the receiving agency.

IJMS is the county’s jail management system. Staff enter the release data, complete the required approval process, and use the Release Approval Report as part of the review. A supervisor approves the action before the person is moved through the final steps. The county record is then final-released in IJMS. That timestamp is the key operational fact when a court order and physical departure happened at different times.

A narrow records request should seek the final IJMS release date and time, release type, release authority, destination or receiving agency, and releasable supporting papers. The result should not be paraphrased as “free” when it says transfer. “Released from Buzz Westfall” describes the end of county custody only.

A missing current-custody result does not prove community release. The final IJMS record and destination field resolve that gap.


Confirm a Buzz Westfall Release

No official rolling 24-hour, 72-hour, photo, or archived county release grid was verified. Use the county’s operational and records channels instead. A court docket can show the order that authorized a release, but it cannot show when jail staff completed release processing. Likewise, an active MODOC result concerns state custody or supervision, not a county-only stay.

  1. Contact Justice Services to ask whether the person remains in county custody. Use the full name and inmate master number when available.
  2. Review Missouri Case.net and the correct 21st Judicial Circuit or municipal matter for bond, dismissal, sentence, or other release authority.
  3. Submit a focused request through the St. Louis County records portal for the final IJMS release fields and destination.
  4. If the destination names MODOC, a municipality, ICE, or another county, confirm receipt with that authority.
  5. Record each source and update time. Resolve conflicts with the agency that physically released or received the person.

The broader St. Louis County released inmate search explains how county, court, state, federal, and immigration sources fit together. For this facility, the county packet remains the primary proof of the local event.


Buzz Westfall Release Records

The official Department of Justice Services page supplies the facility’s main contact details. Its continuous detention operation should not be read as round-the-clock walk-in records service. Document requests belong in the county portal, which also provides a way to track the request.

St. Louis County Department of Justice Services
Buzz Westfall Justice Center
100 South Central Avenue
Clayton, MO 63105
Phone: 314-615-5245
Email: JSocial@stlouiscountymo.gov

Ask for a releasable booking and release record tied to one identified booking. Useful identifiers include the correctly spelled name, approximate booking range, inmate master number, and case number. Request the final IJMS timestamp, release category, authority, destination, Release Approval Report, and public bond, order, memorandum, disposition, sentence, or detainer-cancellation paper. Ask for a cost estimate before work begins.

Missouri Sunshine Law requires action as soon as possible and generally by the end of the third business day. That is an initial-response rule, not a promise of full production. If more time is reasonably needed, the custodian may state why and give the earliest expected access time.

Ordinary paper copies may carry the statutory per-page charge, while research, electronic media, pictures, or necessary programming can involve other allowed actual costs. Prepayment may be requested. No single county release-record price was verified, so a tailored estimate is more reliable than applying a fee quoted by a municipal police department.

The official Justice Services source also gives a visual reference for the county operator:

Buzz Westfall Justice Center release records and Justice Services contact

This image identifies the county department page used for contact and records routing, not a live release roster.


Buzz Westfall Property Release

Policy 1420 documents what happens to property at the close of the county booking. Staff identify the person’s clothing and stored property, then reconcile funds in the person’s presence. Any discrepancy is documented. Release papers and available medication are provided during the same process, and staff explain special numbers or instructions attached to those papers.

Identity is compared with the computer photograph before final departure. When original clothing is unusable or was confiscated, spare clothing may be issued if it is available. A pending lost-property issue does not vanish at the sallyport. The policy directs staff to provide the appropriate supervisor or internal contact route for follow-up.

A person leaving for the community proceeds through the release sallyport. Someone without a ride may use a telephone. The policy does not promise a public release hour or transportation service, so families should avoid treating a court event or bond payment time as a pickup appointment.


Buzz Westfall Transfer Records

MODOC transfer has its own physical path. Justice Services gathers the person’s property and medication, prepares transportation, and final-releases the county IJMS record. State custody then begins or continues. The MODOC active offender search may later show a prison or field assignment, but processing lag is possible. Fully discharged people are omitted from the ordinary active search.

Transfer to another authority is also distinct. County staff route the person to the Law Enforcement Lobby and receiving officers. Ferguson’s written procedure shows one local example: a municipality can retrieve a person whom the county is otherwise ready to release because a municipal matter remains. The destination field is therefore as important as the county timestamp.

Final release
The administrative end of the county IJMS booking.
Detainer
A request or notice from another authority that may alter the release route.
Receiving agency
The office that assumes custody after the county closes its record.
Discharge
The end of a sentence or supervision status, not merely departure from one jail.

Buzz Westfall ICE Transfers

An immigration detainer can turn an expected county release into transfer to the Department of Homeland Security. ICE explains that a detainer requests advance notice and asks an agency to maintain custody for up to 48 additional hours beyond the time the person otherwise would have been released so DHS can assume custody.

No ICE detention facility was verified inside St. Louis County. A transfer can therefore lead outside the local facility map. The ICE Online Detainee Locator is a current locator with limits, not a complete release archive. No result can reflect transfer, release, removal, lag, scope limits, or a data mismatch. Obtain the county destination and then ask ICE for the relevant custody history when the locator cannot settle the question.


Buzz Westfall Municipal Network

The detention network is not one simple county roster. Ferguson identifies the ISC as the central county release point and the county facility used for stays beyond its municipal holdover path. Its newer agreement also identifies Jennings as a custody-placement option. Florissant separately operates a detention function and documents local bond posting for Florissant municipal charges.

Those routes create both sending and receiving records. A person can bond out at a municipal facility, move to Buzz Westfall, be housed under an agreement, or leave county custody for collection by a municipality. Each operator records only its part. When a name disappears from one source, identify the last confirmed facility, obtain its release or transfer record, and follow the named destination.

St. Louis County also must not be confused with the independent City of St. Louis. The City Justice Center, city courts, and city corrections records belong to a different government. Confirm the facility address and case jurisdiction before relying on a similar name.

The strongest local evidence is the custody chain itself: court authority, Justice Services final IJMS release, and the destination or receiving authority. Each source has a defined role. Keeping those roles separate prevents a court disposition, roster absence, or state-search result from being overstated.

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