Terms of Use

These Terms of Use apply whenever a visitor accesses Stephenson County Released Inmates. Using the site means accepting these rules and legal limits. A visitor who does not agree should stop using the site and should not submit information through any site or partner feature.

This privately owned reference site is not connected with Stephenson County, any Sheriff, jail, court, or corrections department. Neither this site nor its advertising partners provides a consumer report, private-investigation service, or FCRA-covered credit, employment, insurance, or tenant-screening service.


Nature of This Website

This is a private reference resource with no authority to speak for a government office. It stores no official release, jail, corrections, or court records and cannot confirm custody, release a person, file a document, or alter an agency record.

Its pages organize public routes for Stephenson County Jail, court, IDOC, supervision, VINE, federal, and immigration information and may connect visitors with outside research tools.


Acceptable Use Rules

Visitors agree not to:

  • Use the site in violation of any law
  • Stalk, harass, threaten, or harm another person
  • Make a credit, employment, housing, insurance, or other regulated eligibility decision from site content
  • Attempt unauthorized access to the site or another system
  • Run bots, scrapers, or automated extraction tools without written permission
  • Disrupt service, security, or another visitor’s access

No Consumer Reports or Screening

Stephenson County Released Inmates is not a consumer reporting agency under the Fair Credit Reporting Act. It does not provide background checks, credit reports, or consumer reports, and its advertising partners do not provide screening services through this site. Visitors agree not to use content for hiring or firing, tenant or housing screening, creditworthiness, insurance pricing, licensing, permits, government-program eligibility, or any other FCRA-regulated purpose.


Outside Websites and Services

Links may lead to government release records, Sheriff and corrections pages, federal locators, legal resources, or private search services. A link is not an endorsement. This site does not control an outside provider’s content, collection practices, prices, terms, accuracy, uptime, or security. Visitors should review the destination’s own terms.


Service Provided As Is

The site and its content are supplied “as is” and “as available,” without express or implied warranties. No promise is made that information is accurate, complete, current, uninterrupted, free of errors or security defects, or that a partner search covers every relevant source.

Custody and release information can change quickly. Nothing published here is an official statement by the Stephenson County Sheriff, a court, IDOC, or another government agency.


Limits of Liability

To the fullest extent allowed by law, the site and its owners, operators, and content partners are not liable for direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, special, or punitive loss arising from access, inability to access, reliance on content, or use of an outside link or tool.


Indemnification

A visitor agrees to defend, indemnify, and hold the site and its owners, operators, and partners harmless from claims, losses, liabilities, costs, and reasonable legal fees arising from that visitor’s use, misuse, rights violation, or breach of these terms.


Intellectual Property

Site text, graphics, logos, organization, and code belong to Stephenson County Released Inmates or the relevant content partner, except for government material and third-party marks owned by their sources. No one may copy, distribute, republish, or modify protected site material without written permission.


Revisions to These Terms

These terms may be changed at any time. A revision becomes effective when posted, and continued use after posting constitutes acceptance of the revised terms.


Suspension or Loss of Access

Access may be restricted, suspended, or ended at any time, for any lawful reason, with or without advance notice.


Illinois Governing Law

Illinois law governs these terms without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Any dispute must be brought in a court with proper jurisdiction in Illinois.


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 enforceable.


Questions About These Terms

Questions concerning these Terms of Use may be directed through the Contact Us page. That route does not reach a Stephenson County government office.