Cecil A. Moore Center Records

Moore Center Release Path

The Cecil A. Moore Law Enforcement Center is the public building name tied to Wilkes County sheriff and detention operations. The sheriff's official home page says the center houses both the Sheriff's Office and Detention Center. It is not a separate prison, a second county jail, or an independent online locator. A release question under this name is routed to the Wilkes County Jail / Wilkes County Detention Center contact.

This distinction prevents duplicate and conflicting searches. The law-enforcement-center name tells a person where the offices and detention operation are located. The jail name identifies the custody function and release record. If a caller was told that someone was at the “Moore Center,” ask the sheriff or jail whether the person remains held, was released, or was transferred.

Confirm Moore Center Releases

Use enough identifying detail to reach the right booking record. A full legal name and date of birth are the best starting points. An approximate booking date, arresting agency, or court case number can separate two people with similar names. Do not treat absence from a web page as proof. The captured sheriff pages provide no public current roster or release feed.

1. Call 706-678-2224 and ask for the Wilkes County detention status tied to the named person.
2. Ask whether the person is still held, released to the community, or transferred to another agency.
3. Request the release date and time, release type, booking number, and receiving agency when applicable.
4. Use the court case number to obtain the order or disposition when a legal act caused release.
5. Follow GDC, another county, USMS, BOP, or ICE when the answer shows a transfer.

A phone response can settle a simple current-status question. A written release record is stronger when a copy is needed for personal knowledge or a court-related process. Georgia VINE may add a custody-change alert, but the alert does not replace the record created by the jail.

Moore Center Records Contact

The Wilkes County Sheriff's Office contact page lists the Cecil A. Moore Law Enforcement Center at the same address used for the jail. It provides the sheriff office number, fax, and non-emergency dispatch line. The site does not identify a separate Moore Center release-record form or a different records desk for detention releases.

Use the office and jail line for release information. Non-emergency dispatch is an operational contact and should not be treated as a substitute records office. For a document copy, ask how to submit a narrow Georgia Open Records Act request to the sheriff as custodian of the jail record.

Moore Center Custody Outcomes

A release entry can describe several different outcomes. Bond, time served, sentence completion, or a court order can end the local hold. A transfer also ends Wilkes custody, but confinement may continue. The requested record should state the release type and destination when those fields are releasable.

Ask whether “released” means release to the community. Agency handoffs are often recorded as release from one custodian. The destination field prevents a Wilkes transfer from being mistaken for the end of all custody.

Moore Center and Wilkes Jail

The sheriff's home page supplies the key local naming fact: the Cecil A. Moore Law Enforcement Center houses the Sheriff's Office and Detention Center. The jail page and a GDC county-jail listing place Wilkes County Jail at the same address with the same primary phone. These sources align around one public release-confirmation hub.

“Law enforcement center,” “detention center,” and “Wilkes County Jail” may therefore point to the same site in ordinary conversation. They are not perfect synonyms for every function. The center is the building and shared operational site. The detention center or jail is the custody operation inside it. The Sheriff's Office also performs law-enforcement work that is broader than jail custody.

Ask for a record by function. A detention release request should name the jail booking and release record. A court order comes from the court. An investigative record, if releasable, is a different sheriff record. Clear wording helps the office locate the right material without implying that one database stores every event associated with the building.

Moore Center Release Record Fields

No public Moore Center release table or exact database field inventory was found. The list below identifies data to request from the sheriff about the underlying Wilkes jail episode. It does not promise that the agency uses these exact labels or that every field is public.

Open-records access is not unlimited. Confidential identifiers, medical details, juvenile information, active investigative material, and sealed or restricted court content may be withheld or redacted under applicable rules. Ask for the releasable record and give a short date range.

Moore Center Court Release Trail

The jail record answers what happened to local custody. A court record can answer why. Bond, dismissal, warrant recall, a sentence, sentence credit, probation action, or another order can change the legal basis for detention. Use the case number from the jail record to contact the proper Wilkes court.

The Clerk of Superior Court is custodian for Superior Court records. Magistrate Court functions include warrant applications and law-enforcement arrest and search warrants. The correct office depends on the case and procedural stage. Ask for the bond order, disposition, sentence, revocation order, warrant action, or credit record that matches the release reason.

Disposition

The recorded result or status of the court case.

Bond

A legal basis for release while the case may continue.

Warrant recall

A court action withdrawing a warrant that may have supported a hold.

Probation

A court sentence served under conditions in the community rather than parole from prison.

Moore Center State Transfers

If the detention operation releases a person to GDC, the Wilkes transfer record ends only the county phase. The Georgia Department of Corrections then controls facility and state sentence information. GDC's Maximum Release Date, parole-review, and offender-status terms do not calculate a routine county jail hold, but they become relevant after state intake.

The GDC status information FAQ is a matched state follow-up source:

This source helps follow a person after state transfer. It does not create a separate Moore Center lookup or replace the sheriff's local transfer record.

A Tentative Parole Month is not a fixed release date. DCS supervision also does not prove when jail custody ended. Keep each record in sequence: Wilkes release or transfer, state intake and sentence record, parole decision when applicable, then community supervision.

Moore Center Visit Times Differ

The Wilkes jail page lists male visitation on Friday and Saturday from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM and female visitation on those days from 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM. Those published times concern visits. They do not state when the Moore Center detention operation processes releases.

After bond or a court order, call 706-678-2224 to ask whether staff received the paperwork and whether the person physically left. Processing can involve identity checks, paperwork, return of property, and coordination with a receiving agency. The research supports no fixed release hour, so do not infer one from the visitation schedule.

Request Moore Center Release Records

Address the written request to the Wilkes County Sheriff's Office and identify the Wilkes County Jail booking connected with the Moore Center. Supply the full name, date of birth if known, approximate booking date, arresting agency, and case number. Ask for the release date and time, release type, booking number, bond facts, court case, and destination if transferred.

A focused request is easier to locate than a demand for every record from the building. It also respects the center's mixed role as both sheriff and detention site. When the jail answer cites a court action, obtain that order from the court. When it cites a receiving agency, continue with that custodian. The Wilkes County Jail release-record page covers the local custody operation under its formal jail name.