Find Horry Released Mugshots

Horry Released Mugshot Records

A booking photograph, often called a mugshot, is created during an arrest and booking process. South Carolina FOIA broadly defines public records to include photographs held by a public body, subject to exemptions and other laws. Public-record status does not make every image available forever. Juvenile restrictions, privacy and safety exemptions, sealed files, expungement orders, and statutory destruction duties can limit disclosure.

Horry County's online Bookings & Releases detail includes a photograph with the booking data. The image remains an arrest-related record, not a statement about how the case ended. Read it with the dated custody label, charge disposition when shown, and the Horry Public Index. A “Released” label documents the jail event. “Out to Home Detention” means secure-jail exit with continuing control. “Still Incarcerated” has the opposite meaning.

A no-photo result also needs care. It may reflect an expungement, record destruction, an old record outside the public interface, an exemption, or an application issue. It does not establish that no booking occurred.

The booking number is the best local link between image and event. One person can have more than one booking, and a later booking can carry a different photograph, set of charges, and release label. Save the date and number when seeking a copy or correction. That approach avoids attaching an image from one custody event to another.

Where Horry Released Mugshots Appear

Use the channel that created or holds the photograph. The Horry County web application is the confirmed local source. SCDC handles state-prison images, while VINELink and the SLED registry have separate purposes and should not be treated as broad photo archives.

News reports and private sites may preserve an older image, but those copies can be stale or detached from later court action. No commercial mugshot publisher is an official source. Verify the event through the county, SCDC, or court before drawing any conclusion.

A local news image may also come from a law-enforcement press release rather than the county booking application. Its caption can reflect what was alleged at publication, not the final disposition. Check the later court record and official custody source. Do not infer that a copied image remains current merely because a search engine still returns it.

Search Horry Released Booking Photos

Open Horry County's Bookings & Releases application. Its inputs are Last Name, Booking Date, and Release Date. The default view concerns current-date bookings, so change the field when searching for someone who has left custody. A released result can show the person's name, age and demographics, booking and release time, booking number, arresting agency, charges, bail when supplied, disposition, custody label, and photograph.

1. Enter the last name, if known, and the relevant Release Date. Search each possible calendar date if the event crossed midnight.
2. Open the full detail. Confirm the booking number and dates before associating the photograph with the intended person.
3. Read the exact status. Do not turn “Out to Home Detention” or transfer into an unconditional community release.
4. Compare the charge and disposition with the Horry Public Index when case context is needed.
5. If the record is missing, call JRLDC or submit a focused request for the individual booking image and release event.

The official web record is also the source behind the Horry County released-last-24-hours method, which reconstructs a rolling interval through calendar-date searches. The county does not publish a separate rolling feed.

The county booking search and its released detail are shown in the captured application view.

The visible photo must be interpreted with the dated release field and booking number, not as a standalone statement about the case.

Horry Sheriff App Mugshot Limits

The Horry County Sheriff's Public Information Office documents an official iOS app. Its verified features include searching bookings and releases, searching the sex-offender registry, downloading forms, and receiving notifications. The official description does not promise that a mobile booking result displays a photograph. No current official Android listing was verified during the research.

That distinction matters. The app is an alternate search and notice channel, but the web application remains the confirmed mugshot route. Do not describe the app as a photo gallery or assume that its fields match the web detail. A person who needs an image should use the county web result first, then the records route if the image is not returned.

The Sheriff's Public Information Office page explains the app and records functions.

The page supports the app as a booking/release channel while leaving photo display unconfirmed, so the browser-based county record remains primary.

Request a Horry Booking Photograph

When the online result is missing or an official copy is needed, request the specific image from the custodian. HCSO's Public Information Office links the Horry County request system. A narrow request reduces confusion and avoids collecting records about unrelated people.

1. Confirm the full name, approximate booking and release dates, and booking number if available.
2. Ask for the individual booking photograph and identify the related booking. Add the final release date, time, and type only if those records are also needed.
3. Request electronic production and a cost estimate. Horry County publishes 15 cents per letter-size page and $25 per staff hour, with full payment before production; other fees may apply.
4. Submit through the Sheriff's records route or contact the Public Information Officer at 843-915-8096, 1301 Second Ave., Conway, SC 29526.
5. Read any redaction or denial with the cited exemption. FOIA does not override a sealed or expunged record or another restriction.

HCSO cites South Carolina Code Section 30-4-15 and states that it may deny requests from people who are not South Carolina citizens. A person outside the state can still use the open web search and should ask the agency about available options. The FOIA deadlines govern agency response and production, not jail release processing.

South Carolina FOIA sets different determination periods for newer and older records and separate production periods after determination or deposit. Those are outer process rules, not a guarantee that the application will keep a photo for a fixed time. Horry publishes no online-retention term. A narrow request may therefore reach a releasable agency record even when the public interface returns nothing.

For an SCDC historical institutional photograph, write to FOIA@doc.sc.gov with the SCDC ID or SID and a date range. The current-inmate search is not a released-photo archive.

Horry State Photo Sources

SCDC's ordinary inmate search displays a photograph only for people currently sentenced to and incarcerated in SCDC. It explicitly excludes released people, county detainees, and people on parole, probation, or other community supervision. A person released only from JRLDC may never appear there. For state-prison release history, use the separate Released Inmate List, which has a release date and type but no verified public photo column.

The SLED sex-offender registry gateway is even narrower. It applies only to people who have a legal registration duty. Registry presence does not prove a new arrest, current custody, or a Horry County release. Absence can reflect no duty, lawful removal, correction, timing, death, or other causes.

The registry's own conditions underscore why it should never be used as a general photo source for released Horry County inmates.

Remove a Horry Released Mugshot

Expungement is a legal process that can remove or destroy qualifying arrest, charge, and conviction material under defined statutes. It is not automatic just because a case ended. The Horry County Solicitor's expungement route explains that qualifying Section 17-1-40 relief reaches booking files, photographs, and fingerprints. General Sessions matters route through the circuit solicitor, summary cases may route through the relevant court, and juvenile matters follow their own restricted process.

South Carolina Section 17-1-60 also regulates commercial publication of booking records. It prohibits obtaining booking records for a publication model that conditions removal, revision, or nonpublication on payment. For certain discharged, dismissed, expunged, or not-guilty charges, a publisher generally must remove the record without charge within 30 days after receiving a compliant certified-mail request with the required identification, certified disposition proof, and exact URL. A plea to another offense can call for revision instead of deletion, and statutory exceptions apply.

The rule is not blanket secrecy. An official record may still be available when no destruction order or exemption applies. A photo copied by a news or private source before expungement may also remain outside the government's control. The Horry Solicitor states that its process cannot erase material independently published by third parties.

Start with the office that holds the image. Ask HCSO about its booking record, SCDC about an institutional image, or the court and Solicitor about an expungement order. If a private publisher carries an outdated copy, use the official disposition and the statutory process. Do not pay a removal service or assume that deletion from one location removes every copy.