Union County 72-Hour Feed Status
Sheriff Curtis Skaggs leads the originating local office, while VMDC maintains its own physical release entries.
No official rolling 72-hour release URL was found on the current Union County Sheriff page or the Vigil-Maldonado Detention Center page. Neither source advertises a three-day filter, current roster, archived release log, photo gallery, or update schedule. It would be inaccurate to relabel a commercial bookings page as an official Union County release register.
The gap reflects Union County’s custody structure. The county has no adult jail of its own. Under an intergovernmental arrangement, VMDC in Colfax County may accept qualifying Union detainees when space and agreement conditions permit. That makes VMDC the likely physical record custodian for an accepted local detainee, while the Union Sheriff and the Clayton court keep different parts of the same event.
Check Union County Three-Day Releases
A three-day check works best as a date-bounded record inquiry. Begin with identity and the arrest event. A common name alone can connect the wrong person to a case. Use the date of birth, booking number, case number, and approximate arrest date when lawfully available. Then separate the jail’s physical event from the court’s authority.
- Call VMDC at 575-445-3691 and ask whether the named person is in custody now.
- If not, ask whether an existing release record covers the prior 72 hours and states the disposition and destination.
- Check the New Mexico Courts Case Lookup for a matching order, dismissal, judgment, or docket entry.
- Send a written IPRA request for the existing VMDC record if staff cannot release details by phone.
- Search the receiving system when the record says transfer rather than community release.
For an event confined to the current day, the Union County same-day release route gives the narrower workflow. Do not count backward from the moment of search unless the source itself defines a rolling window. Here, no official published window exists.
Union County Weekend Release Timing
A 72-hour span can catch records that cross a weekend or holiday. Yet no source found in the Union County research publishes a special weekend schedule, release hour, processing rule, or online lag estimate for VMDC. Do not import another New Mexico jail’s timetable. A judge may sign an order at one point, the clerk may enter it later, and jail staff may complete the physical release after checking holds.
Preserve each time label. The court order date shows legal authority. The VMDC timestamp shows when that jail’s custody ended. A later data entry shows when a system was updated. These facts can differ without conflict. If a three-day period includes a closed court day, ask the clerk for the filed order once offices reopen and ask VMDC for its own final entry.
The Eighth Judicial District portal provides the official court route for Union County cases.
The court source explains the legal event, while VMDC remains the source for actual jail release time and destination.
Note: No verified Union County source promises that a weekend event will appear online within a fixed number of hours.
Union County Three-Day Record Fields
Since an official Union County 72-hour table is absent, these are narrowly tailored fields to request. They reflect the custody chain documented in the research. Availability and redaction remain decisions for the custodian under New Mexico law, and no field should be presented as guaranteed.
| Field to request | Why it matters |
|---|---|
| Full name and booking number | Matches the record to the correct person and custody event. |
| Booking date and time | Defines when VMDC physical custody began. |
| Release date and time | Tests whether the event falls within the selected three-day range. |
| Release disposition or type | Separates bond, order, time served, completion, and transfer. |
| Case number and authority | Connects the jail entry with the controlling court document. |
| Destination or receiving agency | Shows whether custody ended or merely moved. |
Ask for existing electronic records. IPRA does not require an office to create a custom three-day list or calculate an answer. A request can cover a date range and seek final release entries already maintained by the facility.
Union County Releases Start Offsite
The Colfax-Union confinement agreement is central to reading local release data. It allows Colfax County’s VMDC to accept qualifying Union detainees subject to bed space and agreement terms. A Union arrest does not guarantee that the person was booked into VMDC, so confirm the actual booking location before requesting records.
Once VMDC is identified, its release chronology is the best source for the physical custody endpoint. The Union Sheriff may hold the arrest or transport report. Clayton Magistrate Court or Union County District Court may hold the bond order, dismissal, judgment, or sentence. One source can be accurate while still offering only part of the story.
This is why a disappearance from a live source has little meaning on its own. A person could have been released to the community, sent to state prison, transferred on another warrant, moved to federal or ICE custody, or affected by a data problem. Confirm the coded disposition and follow the destination.
Request Union County Release Entries
Address the jail request to the Colfax County custodian or VMDC. Identify the full name, date of birth if known, booking number, Union arresting agency, and the exact 72-hour date range. Request the existing booking/release record, final entry, release timestamp, disposition, authority, and destination or receiving agency. Permit redaction and ask for segregable nonexempt portions.
Under NMSA § 14-2-8, a written request should include the requester’s name, address, and telephone number and identify records with reasonable particularity. When immediate production is not practicable, the custodian supplies a written response. If access is not available within three business days, the response should explain when it will be available or why it was denied. The ordinary outer period is 15 calendar days, subject to the statute.
Section 14-2-9 also requires separation of protected material from releasable portions. A facility can redact exempt details without treating the entire final entry as automatically closed. Ask for the nonexempt release time, disposition, authority, and destination in the form already maintained. If a record exists electronically, request that electronic copy instead of asking staff to build a new spreadsheet.
For the legal authority, use the Judiciary IPRA portal and choose the exact Union County court. Ask for the docket and identified order rather than a broad case file when a focused record will answer the question.
Route Union County Release Types
County detention, state prison, and federal custody are separate systems. An ordinary VMDC booking does not appear in NMCD’s offender search merely because the arrest began in Union County. Conversely, Northeast New Mexico Correctional Facility is an NMCD state prison in Clayton, not a local jail.
| Custody event | Correct source |
|---|---|
| Union arrest held at VMDC | VMDC release record plus the originating Union court case. |
| NENMCF state-prison departure | NMCD Offender Search, institution or P&P verification, and a final NMCD record. |
| Transfer to another county | VMDC disposition followed by the receiving jail’s record. |
| BOP custody | Federal Bureau of Prisons locator and the federal case. |
| ICE transfer | VMDC destination followed promptly through ICE’s locator or contact line. |
“Inactive” in NMCD is a search setting, not automatic proof of unrestricted community release. A person may leave prison for parole, a detainer, another jurisdiction, or treatment placement. The final destination completes the answer.
Confirm Union County Release Results
A solid three-day result records identity, custodian, event, and destination. Match more than a name. Identify who held the person. Preserve the agency’s own release code. Then determine whether the person entered the community or another system.
Keep a short source log with the date, time, phone number, office, and any limit staff describes. If information cannot be confirmed by phone, ask which office is the records custodian. A written “no responsive record” answer is stronger than a failed web search, but it applies only to that office, request scope, and date range.
When a response names another custodian, follow it. Union Sheriff records may end at transport, while VMDC records begin at intake. The Clayton court order may explain the legal basis, and a receiving agency record may show that custody continued beyond the three-day VMDC window.
No official mobile release app was advertised by the Union Sheriff or VMDC on the research date. Avoid apps for same-named counties in other states. Recheck official local pages before relying on any new tool, and never let an unofficial roster replace the final government record.
A person-specific inquiry that extends beyond the three-day range belongs in the Union County released inmate search, where county, state, and federal sources are separated.
Note: A 72-hour range improves date coverage, but release type and destination remain essential to understanding what happened.