This is a private reference site, not a government office. We cannot confirm custody or release, free a person, post bond, or retrieve an official booking record. Contact the responsible public office directly.
Choose the Correct Records Office
The Van Buren County Sheriff's Department operates the jail and is the first contact for a booking report, release report, booking photograph, or the recorded destination after an exit. Its public page does not list records-counter hours or a local copy-fee schedule, so call before visiting and ask for the records custodian and accepted request method.
Van Buren County Sheriff's Department and Jail
121 Taft Drive
Spencer, TN 38585
Phone: 931-946-2118
Records hours: not published; call before visiting
The question determines the next official contact:
- For a released person or sheriff release record, use the home page search and records path, then contact the jail if the 48-hour entry has expired.
- For post-release supervision, use Van Buren County parole and probation and the shared Van Buren/Warren TDOC office at 102 Mullican Street, McMinnville, TN 37110, 931-473-7213.
- For recent county exits, review the 24-hour release list instructions, which explain how to filter the county's actual 48-hour feed.
- For timing or alerts, compare the projected release date process with a VINELink check.
- For the legal case outcome, contact Circuit Court Clerk LaVetta Simmons at 179 Veterans Square, P.O. Box 126, Spencer, TN 38585, 931-946-2153, or Lavetta.Simmons@tncourts.gov. Confirm hours and costs first.
- For a state felony record, use TDOC FOIL or the TDOC archived-record process. For a federal sentence, use the Bureau of Prisons locator; for immigration detention, use ICE ODLS.
- For the local facility itself, use the Van Buren County Jail page linked in the footer.