Florida Department of Corrections Releases
A Citrus County felony case can lead to commitment to FDC, but no Florida state prison was verified inside Citrus County. The person may be assigned wherever the statewide system determines. Once FDC receives the commitment, the county arrest report and CoreCivic jail record no longer describe the whole custody path. The FDC offender detail becomes the durable public source for the state-prison term, sentence history, release information, detainers, and later supervision when those fields are published.
State custody can end through sentence expiration, conditional release, parole for an older eligible case, another supervision mechanism, or transfer to another custodian. An FDC release means FDC prison custody ended. It does not by itself prove that no detainer, new arrest, or other agency custody followed. Read the actual release date beside the latest date out of custody, then check the supervision and detainer portions of the matching record.
FDC covers Florida prison and state supervision records. It does not contain a short sentence served only at the Citrus County Detention Facility.
Search FDC Release Records
The FDC Offender Search menu separates people currently incarcerated, people released from prison, people under community supervision, and absconders. Start with the Inmate Release Information Search for a completed or scheduled state-prison release. The release search is updated nightly. A name search uses prefixes, so a result list may contain people who are not the Citrus County subject.
- Choose Inmate Release Information Search from the FDC menu.
- Enter the six-character DC number when known, or search by last and first name with aliases enabled.
- Open the detail record. Do not stop at the result row.
- Compare the photo, aliases, date of birth, DC number, offense county, case number, and sentence dates.
- Read the Release Date, latest Date Out-Custody, detainers, incarceration history, and any supervision entry.
- If the result is absent or conflicts with another official record, submit a narrow FDC records request.
The FDC menu shown below is the official starting point for the separate custody populations.
The menu prevents a released-person search from being confused with an active-inmate or supervised-population query.
Note: A no-result search is inconclusive because name variants, identity mismatches, and record restrictions can affect what appears online.
Read FDC Release Record Fields
An FDC released detail ties the result to one statewide corrections identity. A DC number is six characters, either all numeric or one letter followed by five digits. Use it whenever possible. Name alone is not enough. A matching photograph, alias list, date of birth, offense county, case number, and sentence structure reduce the risk of combining two people.
| FDC field | How to read it |
|---|---|
| DC number | The statewide corrections identifier for the person. |
| Release Date | A published state-prison release event or scheduled date, read with the record type and current warning. |
| Date Out-Custody | The end date for a listed incarceration-history period. |
| Prison sentence history | The offense county, case, sentence dates, and term tied to the prison episode. |
| Detainers | Another authority's claim that may affect where the person went next. |
| Supervision record | The type, status, current location, start, and scheduled end of an FDC community term when published. |
A preserved “Custody” classification in a released record is not proof of current incarceration. Use the actual Release Date and the latest Date Out-Custody. Likewise, a stated residence can be restricted or outdated. The record documents the FDC episode, not every later event in another custody system.
Actual and Tentative FDC Releases
Florida uses two date vocabularies. The public active-inmate page labels the forecast “Current Release Date.” Section 944.275 calls the calculated date a tentative release date. That forecast can change when FDC grants, restores, forfeits, or reviews gain-time. It can also change after an added sentence, sentence correction, detainer, or another custody event. “TO BE SET” means review is pending, while a life term may display “SENTENCED TO LIFE.”
An actual Release Date is retrospective. It confirms that the listed FDC custody episode ended on that date. The tentative date is a forecast. For qualifying offenses committed on or after October 1, 1995, gain-time cannot produce release before at least 85 percent of the sentence is served, including court-awarded physical jail credit. That percentage is a floor for the covered state cohort, not a promise of release at exactly 85 percent.
- Current Release Date
- The public FDC label for a forecast on an active record.
- Tentative release date
- The statutory calculation after gain-time granted or forfeited.
- Actual Release Date
- The recorded end of the listed state-prison custody episode.
- Maximum expiration
- The sentence end before a tentative calculation moves it earlier through authorized credit.
County jail credit follows a different framework. Do not apply the state 85-percent rule to a sentence served only at CCDF. A pretrial detainee also has no sentence-based projection. Bond, court action, holds, and local processing control that release.
Current Versus Released FDC Records
FDC maintains distinct search populations because incarceration, prior release, and supervision are not the same status. Check the population that answers the question, then compare across official records when a transition is involved. One detail page should not be stretched beyond the agency and term it describes.
| Record | What it answers | Key caution |
|---|---|---|
| Active inmate | Whether FDC currently reports prison custody and a forecast date. | The Current Release Date may change. |
| Inmate release | State-prison release date, prior term, and related history. | It does not rule out later custody. |
| Supervised population | Community-supervision type, status, location, and term dates. | ACTIVE SUSPENSE can reflect confinement elsewhere. |
| Absconder | Whether FDC reports unknown whereabouts and a violation warrant. | It is separate from the general released search. |
| County jail record | A CoreCivic booking and release episode in Citrus County. | It is not an FDC prison record. |
For a Citrus case, the Clerk docket can establish the prison sentence and case result. CoreCivic can confirm delivery out of county jail custody. FDC then controls the state-prison and state-supervision record. These systems can all be accurate at different stages of the same case.
Note: Record the exact status wording and date checked before reconciling an FDC result with a county jail or court record.
Request FDC Release Records
When the public detail is incomplete, absent, or disputed, request the existing FDC record by DC number and a narrow subject range. A useful request may seek the admission and release record, sentence structure, maximum expiration date, current or tentative release-date history, gain-time awards and forfeitures, actual date out, incarceration history, detainers, and a public photograph. FDC estimates charges, reviews and redacts under Chapters 119 and 945.10, and requires payment when charges apply.
Florida Department of Corrections Public Records
James Best, Department of Corrections
501 S. Calhoun Street
Tallahassee, FL 32399
Help: 850-717-9774
Fax: 850-488-4534
Online portal available for submission
Use the FDC public-records portal for the direct submission path. Include the exact name, DC number, Citrus County case number when relevant, and the specific fields or date span needed. Florida's public-record law requires production of existing nonexempt records, not a custom calculation or new answer. Protected portions may be redacted while the rest is released.
Note: Ask for the underlying date history when a current screen cannot explain why a state release projection moved.
FDC Supervision After Release
After an actual state-prison release, search the FDC Supervised Population database. It may show the Supervision Begin Date, Current Location, Current Status, Supervision Type, Scheduled Termination Date, verified address, and offense history. ACTIVE means direct community supervision. ACTIVE SUSPENSE means the person is temporarily unavailable for direct supervision, often because another facility holds them while the officer monitors the case. ABSCONDER means FDC reports unknown whereabouts, unavailability for supervision, and a violation warrant.
Probation and parole are not interchangeable. Probation is imposed by a court. Florida parole is discretionary release for a limited legacy population and is administered by the Florida Commission on Offender Review. Conditional release is another statutory post-prison form. Always preserve the Supervision Type displayed in the FDC detail.
Citrus County's local FDC point is Office 053 in Inverness, but Circuit 5 also covers Hernando, Lake, Marion, and Sumter counties. A Citrus conviction does not guarantee supervision through the Inverness office. Follow Current Location. The FDC Circuit 5 office listing supplies the current local routing information.
Florida Released-Inmate OBIS Archive
FDC provides a downloadable released-inmate cohort for state releases dating to October 1, 1997. This is the durable archival route that Citrus County's jail website does not have. The OBIS files are offered in Access, Excel, and tab-delimited formats with a data dictionary and monthly refresh. They can include release roots, aliases, offenses, detainers, and incarceration history. They are state-prison data, not CoreCivic county-jail release data.
The FDC OBIS released-inmate archive shown below explains the available formats and coverage.
The archive adds historical depth when the nightly name search does not provide enough context for an older state release. FCOR uses a different record path. Its public hearing schedule and FPCWeb agendas are not release decisions. Request the final Commission action or order at fcorlegal@fcor.state.fl.us or 850-848-4460, including the name, DC number, meeting date, county, case, and exact order sought. Later FDC release and supervision records can corroborate the result. An agenda entry alone cannot establish that parole was granted, denied, or completed.
Note: OBIS begins with the stated 1997 cohort and should not be described as a complete archive of every Florida prison release.
Citrus County State Release Boundary
A state-prison release path begins only after FDC receives the person. A short Citrus County jail sentence remains with CoreCivic and the Clerk. Federal pretrial custody at CCDF remains with the federal docket and USMS until a BOP placement. VINE can corroborate an agency-reported custody event, but it is a notification system rather than the certified FDC release record.
Use the Citrus County released inmate search when the last custodian is not yet clear. If the county record names FDC, switch to the statewide searches described here. If it does not, do not force the person into a state-prison database merely because the case began in Citrus County.
The sibling Citrus County Detention Facility release page covers the local jail record, county release confirmation, and transfers out of Lecanto. That page and the FDC path answer different stages of custody.