What the Office Handles
A person can be released from jail or prison and still have supervision obligations. Parole is supervised release from state prison after a Board decision. Mandatory supervision is a statutory release to supervision before sentence end for eligible ADOC inmates. Probation is court-ordered supervision that may follow a jail sentence, split sentence, or non-prison sentence. The Florence Field Office is the local reporting and navigation point for Lauderdale County supervision cases.
Verify Supervision Status
- Check the Lauderdale County court record for probation orders, split sentences, revocations, and sentence terms.
- For parole, check ABPP scheduled hearing and result pages to see whether parole was granted, denied, reset, continued, or revoked.
- Contact the Florence Field Office for local supervision navigation when the person reports in Lauderdale County.
- Use Alabama VNS for covered ADOC-sentenced cases and do not use it as a substitute for pretrial county-jail release records.
- For formal proof, distinguish the exact record: parole result, parole certificate, mandatory supervision release, probation order, or current reporting office.
Field Office Contact
ABPP Florence Field Office
Address: Lauderdale County Courthouse, Room 504, 200 South Court Street, Florence, AL 35630
Phone: 256-764-4131
Fax: 256-764-3979
Hours: Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; closed state and federal holidays
Hearings and Results
ABPP parole and pardon hearings are held in open public meeting each week on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday unless otherwise noted. The hearings are in Montgomery at 301 South Ripley Street, not at the Florence field office. ABPP's result pages are useful, but they must be read carefully: a reset date is the first month and year the person may be considered for a future docket, not a new hearing date and not a release date.
| Result term | Release meaning |
|---|---|
| Grant | Parole approved, subject to processing, conditions, detainers, and notification requirements. |
| Deny | No parole release from that hearing. |
| Reset | Future docket eligibility timing, not proof of release. |
| Revoked or delinquent | A supervision problem after release that can lead to custody. |
Jail Release vs Supervision
The sheriff's inmate communication page documents approved rehabilitation-center assessment visits only with prior approval from the Director of Corrections. That is a facility-specific release-planning fact, not a general visitation right. After physical release, the court order and ABPP reporting instructions control supervision obligations. For property or jail account questions, contact the detention center; for supervision paperwork, use the court and ABPP.
Florence Supervision Records
The Florence Field Office is a local supervision office, not a jail and not the Board hearing room. It can help route parole, probation, and mandatory-supervision questions for people reporting in Lauderdale County. The court record still matters because it shows the sentence, probation order, revocation order, dismissal, jail credit, or other order that created or changed supervision.
For a state-prison parole case, use ABPP scheduled hearings and results for Board action. For a probation case, start with the Lauderdale County Circuit Clerk record and then use ABPP for local reporting navigation. For mandatory supervision, compare ADOC, ABPP, VNS, and court records because physical release from prison and supervision status are separate facts.
Parole Terms to Read
ABPP result terms need careful reading. A grant means parole was approved, but release can still depend on conditions, detainers, notification, and processing. A denial means no parole release from that hearing. A reset is a future docket eligibility point, not release. Delinquent or revoked status means a supervision problem after release and may lead to custody.
- Parole certificate
- A record connected to release on parole and conditions.
- Probation order
- A court order that creates reporting duties after sentence or disposition.
- Mandatory supervision
- A state-prison release to ABPP supervision before sentence expiration for eligible cases.
- Discharge
- The end of a supervision term or custody term, depending on the agency record.
Lauderdale Local Reporting
The local value of the Florence office is routing. A Lauderdale County person released to parole, probation, or mandatory supervision may need a local reporting point, but public verification still depends on what the record type allows. Individual supervision files can include sensitive details, so the public path should stay focused on hearing result, court order, reporting office, and discharge confirmation.
If a person is missing from a jail roster, do not assume the Florence Field Office has the answer. First determine whether the person was released from county jail, transferred to ADOC, released from ADOC, or placed on probation by the court. Then use the office, court, ADOC, VNS, or records request that matches that path.
Lauderdale Cross-System Checklist
Every Lauderdale County release question should start with the last agency that had legal custody. The Lauderdale County Detention Center controls county jail booking and release events. The Circuit Clerk controls the court record that explains bond, release orders, dismissal, sentence, jail credit, probation, revocation, transfer, or expungement. ADOC controls current state-prison custody and projected release fields. ABPP controls parole, probation, mandatory supervision, hearing results, and local reporting through the Florence Field Office.
When the record says transfer, ask for the receiving agency before deciding where to search next. ADOC means state prison. ABPP may become relevant after state-prison release or court-ordered probation. Alabama VNS and VINELink are notification layers for covered records and are not complete county jail archives. BOP, USMS, federal court, U.S. Probation, and ICE ODLS apply only when the record shows federal or immigration custody. A registry entry applies only to qualifying public registrants.
A written request should identify the person, the approximate date, the facility or system, and the exact record sought. Useful phrases include booking and release record, release date and time, release reason, booking number, charge or case number, court order, receiving agency, ADOC release date, parole result, probation order, mandatory supervision release, VNS notice, BOP release date, ICE custody status, or registry photograph. A narrow request is easier for the office to route and less likely to pull restricted material.
Keep released, transferred, discharged, and supervised separate. Released from the county jail can mean the person went home, bonded out, completed time, moved to ADOC, went to another county, or entered federal or immigration custody. Discharged from ADOC can still be followed by ABPP supervision. A VINE notice may report a custody change but not the full court result. The safest Lauderdale County workflow is to confirm the custody event, then confirm the court or supervision event that explains it.
Alabama public-records access supports requests for many records, but it does not make every field public or online. Juvenile material, Youthful Offender records, sealed files, expunged records, medical details, security notes, victim information, active-investigation details, and confidential data may be withheld or redacted. If a record is restricted, ask which office issued the restriction and whether a public case-action summary or certified order is available instead.
Lauderdale Final Verification Notes
Lauderdale County release research has one recurring rule: no single public page answers every custody question. The sheriff or detention-center records channel confirms county jail custody. The Circuit Clerk explains court action. ADOC handles state-prison custody while a person is current in the public search. ABPP handles parole, probation, mandatory supervision, and local reporting. VINE and Alabama VNS can notify on covered custody changes, but they do not replace the agency record. Federal and immigration records use BOP, USMS, federal court, U.S. Probation, and ICE ODLS when those systems apply.
When sources disagree, sort them by event. Booking date, release date, court order date, transfer date, ADOC projected date, parole consideration date, VINE notice date, and supervision discharge date can all be different. Write down each date with the source that produced it. Then ask the office that created the record to confirm the status instead of merging separate events into one answer.
The absence of an online result should be treated as a prompt to use the next channel. It may mean release, transfer, current-only search limits, no public feed, a spelling problem, restricted access, or a record held by a different agency. For Lauderdale County, the safest workflow is sheriff or jail records, then court, then ADOC or ABPP when state custody or supervision is involved, then VINE, federal, ICE, or registry tools only when the custody path supports them.
For the Florence Field Office, the key question is whether the person is under active supervision, awaiting a hearing result, responding to a court probation order, or already discharged. The office helps route local reporting questions, while the Board or court record explains the legal status.