Pitchess South Releases

Where Pitchess South Releases Go

Pitchess Detention Center South Facility is listed in the Los Angeles County facility map as an LASD county jail. A person released from this facility follows the same county-release path used by the larger Los Angeles County Jail System unless the event was actually a transfer. A routine local release can occur after bond, a court order, time served, sentence completion, a dismissed case, or resolution of a hold. A non-routine exit can be a move to another LASD facility, court, CDCR, another county, federal custody, hospital, or another agency.

That distinction matters because a person may stop appearing in the live LASD locator without being free in the community. The research specifically warns that a missing current-custody result can mean release, transfer, court movement, hospital movement, state-prison transfer, federal transfer, sealed or limited records, data lag, or a name/date-of-birth mismatch. Until a release date, release manner, court disposition, VINE status, or records response confirms the event, the safer wording is that the person is no longer shown in current LASD custody.

Confirm a South Facility Release

Use the county custody sequence before moving to outside systems. The Los Angeles County released inmates search path starts with current LASD custody, then adds release-report, notification, court, and records channels because each one answers a different question.

1. Search the LASD Inmate Information Center or call 213-473-6100. LAPD materials identify this line as available 24 hours a day for custody information at LAPD or LASD-operated jails.
2. Check the LASD Custody Reports page for the current Inmate Release Report and LASD Pending Releases PDF. The Inmate Release Report uses a Projected Release Date field, so treat it as a lead, not proof that release has already occurred.
3. Use Los Angeles VINE at 1-877-VINE-4LA / 1-877-846-3452 or California VINE online for status and release or transfer notification. VINE is a status and notification tool, not a permanent historical archive.
4. Review the Los Angeles Superior Court case for a release order, bail action, disposition, sentence, warrant, or next hearing. LASC warns that online information is not the official court record.
5. If the person was transferred to CDCR, switch to CIRIS and CDCR records. If the person entered federal or immigration custody, check the BOP or ICE path separately instead of treating the LASD record as the final answer.
6. Request LASD custody records when online sources do not show the date, time, and manner of release.

South Facility Records and Contacts

Research did not identify a separate public release database or facility-level release records office for Pitchess South. The confirmed public contacts are system-level LASD and court channels. For custody status and inmate location, use the LASD custody phone line. For formal release or incarceration records, use LASD records, especially the custody-related CPRA route for inmate records and information.

About Pitchess South

The research identifies Pitchess Detention Center South Facility as a county jail operated by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. It is part of the broader Pitchess Detention Center campus in Castaic, a setting that creates practical release questions different from the downtown jail complex. Families and records requesters should confirm the exact releasing facility before traveling, because an LASD release can be processed from Castaic, downtown Los Angeles, Lynwood, or another custody point depending on housing and movement.

Castaic Release Logistics

Section 19's Pitchess angle is practical: the Castaic jail campus is geographically different from the downtown Los Angeles jail complex. That does not change the legal release route, but it can change family pickup planning and transportation. The research did not find a public LASD rule for family waiting areas or rideshare pickup, so this page does not invent one. The defensible instruction is to confirm current custody or pending release before traveling and to ask the custody phone line which facility is handling the current custody event.

Release timing should also be treated as operational, not guaranteed. Court orders, warrants, holds, detainers, paperwork, identity verification, property, transportation, and medical or supervision processing can affect when a person physically leaves custody. A projected release date in an LASD PDF is not the same as a completed release record.

Getting the Release Record

For a formal Pitchess South release record, ask for the record held by LASD, not by CDCR, BOP, or ICE unless the person was transferred to one of those systems. California Government Code section 7923.610 identifies the time and manner of release or the current holding location as public arrest information, subject to legal limits. LASD's public records material separates custody-related CPRA requests from Records and Identification Bureau services, so submit the request to the correct channel and include the booking number, legal name, date of birth if known, and approximate arrest or release date.

If the online report shows only a projected date or pending status, ask records for the completed release event instead of relying on the snapshot.

Every Pitchess South release fact should be verified with the originating agency or the court record before it is treated as final.