Terms of Use

These Terms of Use govern access to Virginia Released Inmates and its statewide directory of release-record and offender-search resources. Using the site means accepting these terms. A visitor who does not accept them should stop using the site. Official custody, release, sentence, and court information remains with the Virginia or federal office that maintains it, and every person-level result should be checked with that source. These conditions also apply when a visitor follows a locality link or chooses an outside search service presented here.

Virginia Released Inmates is privately owned and has no government affiliation. Neither the site nor its advertising partners is a consumer reporting agency or offers a service governed by the Fair Credit Reporting Act. Information may not be used for credit, employment, insurance, tenant screening, or another FCRA-covered purpose. The site helps visitors locate Virginia release records and offender-search resources; it is not a private investigation firm.


Nature of the Service

Virginia Released Inmates is a private reference site. It is not part of a sheriff's office, city or county jail, regional jail, VADOC, the Virginia Parole Board, Virginia courts, VINELink, BOP, ICE, or any other public body. It stores no official custody file, receives no release order, and cannot release a person, confirm a current status, calculate a sentence, or file a record request for a visitor.

The statewide site points toward official release and offender-search channels, sends visitors to the relevant locality site, and may connect visitors with outside research tools. A date may be projected, a feed may lag, two people may share a name, and a transfer is not the same as community release. The responsible agency remains the source for verification.


Acceptable Use Rules

Access is permitted only when it is lawful and does not harm people, the service, or its providers. By using the site, a visitor agrees not to:

  • Break any local, Virginia, federal, or other applicable law
  • Use information to stalk, harass, threaten, or harm another person
  • Base hiring, housing, lending, or insurance decisions on site content
  • Attempt to enter an account, server, system, or restricted area without permission
  • Deploy bots, scrapers, or other automated collection methods
  • Interfere with the site's operation or another visitor's access

No Consumer Reports

Virginia Released Inmates is not a consumer reporting agency under the Fair Credit Reporting Act. It supplies no background check, credit report, or consumer report. Its advertising and search partners do not offer screening services through this site. A visitor agrees not to use any site content or linked result for:

  • A decision to hire, retain, promote, or dismiss a worker
  • A tenant, rental, or housing eligibility decision
  • A creditworthiness decision or the pricing of insurance
  • A licensing, permit, or government-program eligibility decision
  • Any other purpose regulated by the FCRA

Links Beyond This Site

Links may lead to city and county jail rosters, regional-jail pages, sheriff and corrections sites, government portals, locality subdomains, legal-aid resources, or outside search services. A link is supplied for convenience and does not amount to an endorsement. Virginia Released Inmates does not control the destination's content, privacy practices, terms, fees, accuracy, security, or availability. Review the destination's own policies before using it.


Service Provided As Is

The site, its text, and its functions are provided “as is” and “as available.” To the fullest extent allowed by law, no express or implied warranty is made that:

  • Information will be accurate, complete, or current
  • The service will remain available without interruption
  • The site will be free of errors, bugs, or security flaws
  • A partner search will return every relevant record

Custody and public-record systems change often. A person can move among a local jail, VADOC, federal custody, immigration custody, supervision, or the community while a portal still shows an older entry. Nothing published here is an official statement by a sheriff, jail, court, or corrections agency.


Limits on Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Virginia Released Inmates and its owners, operators, contributors, and service providers are not liable for direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive loss arising from access to, reliance on, inability to use, or misuse of the site or a linked service.


Your Duty to Indemnify

A visitor agrees to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Virginia Released Inmates and its owners, operators, contributors, and service providers from claims, liabilities, losses, damages, costs, and reasonable legal fees caused by that visitor's use of the site, violation of these terms, or infringement of another person's rights.


Ownership of Site Materials

Unless a separate credit states otherwise, the original text, graphics, logos, arrangement, and code on Virginia Released Inmates belong to the site or its content partners. They may not be copied, republished, distributed, adapted, or commercially exploited without prior written permission. Government records and linked agency materials remain subject to their own ownership and use rules.


Revisions to These Terms

These terms may be changed at any time to reflect site operations, service providers, or legal requirements. A revision becomes effective when posted on this page. Continued use after posting means the visitor accepts the revised terms.


Suspension or Loss of Access

Virginia Released Inmates may restrict, suspend, or end access to all or part of the service at any time, for any reason, and without advance notice. This authority includes action taken to protect the site, its visitors, its providers, or another person's rights.


Virginia Law Controls

These terms are governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia, without regard to conflict-of-law principles. Any dispute relating to these terms or use of the site must be filed in a court with proper jurisdiction in Virginia.


Severability

If a court finds one provision invalid or unenforceable, the remaining terms stay in effect. The affected provision will be limited or adjusted only as much as needed to make it valid and enforceable.


Questions About These Terms

Questions about these Terms of Use may be sent through the Contact Us page.