No Official Alger Daily Feed
No verified page from the Alger County Sheriff’s Office lists people released today or during a rolling 24-hour period. The official page is an agency and contact source. It does not expose release names, booking numbers, release times, release codes, photos, an update schedule, or a searchable archive. There is also no documented web-retention period because no official recent-release view exists.
This absence should be read narrowly. It means the County does not publish the feed online, not that the underlying booking and release records do not exist. A person asking about one name can call the Sheriff at 906-387-4444 and provide the approximate booking date. Someone seeking all releasable events for a day should describe a fixed start and end time in a written request. The official answer may be a record, a partial record with redactions, or a lawful denial.
Check Alger 24-Hour Releases
A same-day check works best when the request defines both the person and the period. Alger County uses Eastern Time. “Today” can mean a calendar day beginning at midnight, while “the last 24 hours” is a moving period counted backward from the time of inquiry. State which one is needed. If the purpose is to find one named person, the broader search paths on the Alger County released inmates home page help distinguish jail, prison, federal, and immigration custody.
- Fix the window. Write the local start and end date and time, including the year. Record when the check was made.
- Call the Sheriff. Give the full name, known aliases, date of birth if known, and approximate admission date. Ask whether county custody ended and whether the destination was the community or another custodian.
- Check the court trail. Use MiCOURT Case Search for a bond order, judgment, disposition, or sentencing entry. Court action explains authority, but it may not show the exact jail-door time.
- Use a custody alert source. Test the person and agency in VINELink. A reported release is a point-in-time event and still needs a transfer check.
- Request the event record. Send a narrow written request through Alger County FOIA when durable proof or a full daily list is needed.
Phone information is quick but temporary. A docket can establish that a judge authorized bond or imposed time served, yet the Sheriff’s release entry is the record of physical processing. When the facts matter, preserve the agency name, reported status, event time, booking number if supplied, and the time each source was checked.
Alger Daily Release Record Fields
Because Alger County has no online 24-hour release list, there are no published feed fields to interpret. The useful fields below are items to request from the existing jail record. Ask only for what is needed and allow the County to redact exempt portions rather than treating a web absence as a no-record finding.
| Requested field | What it establishes |
|---|---|
| Legal name, aliases, booking number | Connects the response to the correct booking rather than a same-name person. |
| Admission date and time | Identifies the custody episode that began at Alger County Jail. |
| Actual release date and time | Records when the Sheriff completed the county custody event. |
| Release code or legal authority | May distinguish bond, time served, court order, or another recorded reason. |
| Release destination | Separates community release from transfer, detainer pickup, court, medical, or other custody. |
| Booking photograph, requested separately | Identifies the image tied to that admission; it does not prove release by itself. |
A bond release is not an acquittal. “Time served” describes the custodial part recorded by the releasing authority, while another case or supervision may remain. A transfer means custody continued elsewhere. The release destination is therefore as important as the date and time.
Note: A current roster, if one later appears, would describe present custody; a release record documents how a completed Alger jail event ended.
Request Alger Same-Day Records
Michigan’s Freedom of Information Act governs requests for County administrative records. Alger accepts a sufficiently descriptive writing without requiring a special form. Mark the subject or cover “FOIA” and send it to the County courthouse at 101 Court Street, Munising, MI 49862, fax 906-387-2156, or email foia@algercounty.gov. The County’s written public summary explains response and appeal rights.
For a daily list, ask for “all releasable jail release-log or inmate-release-form entries from [start date/time] through [end date/time], Eastern Time,” then name the desired fields. For one person, provide the full name, aliases, birth date if known, and approximate booking date. Request electronic production, redaction of exempt portions, an itemized estimate, and notice before costs exceed a chosen amount. This asks for existing records rather than asking staff to research a question or create a new report.
The ordinary response decision is due within five business days after receipt. Alger can grant, deny, grant in part, or issue one written extension of up to ten additional business days. Large production can take longer than the decision period. A 50% good-faith deposit may be required when the estimate exceeds $50. Chargeable labor is calculated in 15-minute increments under the County procedure, standard paper copies are capped at $0.10 per sheet, and permitted mailing cost may be added.
Verify Alger Release Source Provenance
Official-sounding roster domains appear in search results, but the research sweep found no County-operated recent-release archive behind those claims. An unofficial page may lag, merge present and past custody, omit transfers, or fail to state when its source last synchronized. It can be a lead, never the sole confirmation of an Alger County release.
Trace each fact back to the custodian. The Sheriff owns the local jail event. The court clerk owns the bond order, judgment, and register of actions. The Michigan Department of Corrections owns prison, parole, and discharge data. VINELink relays an agency-reported custody event. Those sources answer different questions, so matching details across two of them is stronger than relying on a page whose origin is unclear.
- Community release
- County custody ends and the person leaves to the community, sometimes with court or supervision duties.
- Transfer
- Alger County custody ends because another agency receives the person. Confinement continues.
- Detainer
- A hold from another authority that may lead to pickup after the local matter ends.
- Discharge
- In MDOC usage, the end of department jurisdiction, which is different from release on parole.
No Alger Sheriff Release App
No official Alger-specific Sheriff mobile app was verified for release lists, roster searches, or booking photographs. That finding matters because statewide tools are easy to mislabel as local products. The MI-VINE service and VINELink app provide notification functions for participating agencies. They are not an Alger Sheriff roster app and do not create a public daily release list.
MI-VINE can provide release, transfer, escape, and supported court-event notifications. Alger participation for a specific custody record should be tested in the live system or checked by calling 800-770-7657. A notification records what the reporting agency sent at that time. It does not identify every hold or replace the underlying release form when exact reason and destination are required.
Route Alger Release Custody
A same-day county inquiry should not be forced into the wrong database. OTIS expressly does not serve as an Alger County Jail roster. It covers MDOC prisoners, parolees, probationers, and people discharged within its public post-discharge window. If the Sheriff says the person was committed or transferred to MDOC, use the OTIS search after processing time and read current status before reading any dates.
A court order can explain a bond-out, dismissal, time-served sentence, or commitment. Yet it does not always prove when the jail completed the release. Federal and immigration transfers require their own channels. A person leaving Alger County Jail for the U.S. Marshals Service or ICE has left County custody but has not necessarily returned to the community.
Use the destination field to close that gap. When the response names another custodian, record the transfer time and follow the receiving agency rather than repeating the County inquiry. When it names the community, preserve the release reason with the event time.
The wider Released Last 72 Hours process is better when the exact event day is uncertain or a weekend crosses the inquiry window. For today’s question, keep the period tight. A narrowly framed named-person request is often easier to identify and may involve less search and redaction work than a countywide list.