Clearfield Released Mugshot Records
The official page for Clearfield County Sheriff Chester Hawkins supplies no inmate app, booking gallery, or person-level release-photo feed.
A booking photograph is a separate image record even when it is linked to a jail booking entry. The photo documents appearance when the image was made. It does not show a current custody status, the final disposition of charges, or present appearance. Release also does not erase the source image by itself. The agency may still hold the image after the person leaves its roster or custody system.
Pennsylvania access law gives booking photographs strong public-record support. In PG Publishing Co. v. Governor's Office of Administration, 120 A.3d 456 (Pa. 2015), the Pennsylvania Supreme Court treated executive-branch booking photographs as public records and rejected a blanket criminal-investigation exemption. Access is not absolute. Privacy balancing, juvenile restrictions, sealing, expungement, security redactions, other law, and whether the office holds the record can still affect a request.
Release reasons must stay separate from the image. Bond means bail terms were met in that case, not that the charge ended. Transfer means custody moved. Parole means conditional release under supervision, not discharge. An old Clearfield County booking photo cannot settle any of those questions.
Where Clearfield Release Photos Appear
No one channel is a complete Clearfield County mugshot archive. The county request route is the sound path for a named county booking. PADOC and VINELink carry different records and must be described by their true source. News or third-party copies may persist, but neither is authoritative proof of release.
| Channel | Has photo? | How to access |
|---|---|---|
| County roster or release feed | No official Clearfield photo feed was located | Use the jail and county records route instead. |
| Sheriff mobile app | No official inmate or release app was advertised | Do not substitute a generic sheriff-branded app. |
| County records request | Possible when maintained and public | Request the named booking photograph with booking date or number. |
| PADOC locator | State records can display a photo and image date | Use only for a state inmate or supervised person, not a county booking. |
| VINELink | Varies by record | Never promise an image unless the live Pennsylvania record shows one. |
| Local news or official release | Sometimes | Read the date and stated event; an arrest image may predate release. |
| Third-party publication | Sometimes | Treat as unverified, do not pay for reliance, and corroborate with official records. |
A booking photo from Clearfield County Jail and a PADOC locator photo are not interchangeable. They may have different dates and arise from different custody events. Use the image only to identify the matching source record, then verify release through the jail, court, or state system.
No Clearfield Mugshot App
The official Clearfield County Sheriff page and county Jail page advertise no inmate lookup app, release app, booking gallery, public roster, or social release feed. This absence is a distinctive local fact. The county probation page links its department Facebook presence, but that page is not a jail release-photo source and should not be used as one.
The official sheriff page documents office duties and prisoner transportation, not person-level booking images. Its captured page supports the absence finding.
Do not download an app merely because it uses a sheriff theme or jail terms. It may cover another county or pull stale data. The Clearfield County 24-Hour Releases page likewise explains that no official same-day release feed was located as of the research date.
Note: The lack of an online image does not prove that the county never created or no longer holds a booking photograph.
Request a Clearfield Booking Photo
Call Clearfield County Jail first to learn whether an informal copy or confirmation is available. For a formal executive-branch request, use the County/General Right-to-Know form or a sufficiently specific written request. Address it to County Records Officer Marianne Sankey, Clearfield County Administrative Building, 212 East Locust Street, Clearfield, PA 16830.
- Identify the person by full name and another known identifier.
- Give the booking date or a narrow date range, plus a booking number, docket, or OTN when known.
- Ask for the existing booking photograph tied to that booking and, if needed, the booking and release-log entry.
- Request electronic delivery when useful, but do not require a format the county does not maintain.
- Review the written response for any exemption, redaction, no-record statement, fee, or appeal information.
A focused description might ask for the existing booking photograph for the named person and booking, along with the recorded release date, time, and disposition or receiving agency fields if maintained. Ask for records, not answers to questions. Under 65 P.S. § 67.705, an agency need not create a new certificate or reconstruct an image it does not possess.
Clearfield County's published schedule lists photocopying at $0.15 per page beginning with 11 or more pages, a CD at $5, and actual postage. Fees and forms can change. Pennsylvania's Right-to-Know Law ordinarily calls for an agency response within five business days under § 901, while § 902 permits a written extension for listed reasons. Disclosure may still be limited.
The Office of Open Records forms page provides the statewide request route.
Clearfield News And Photo Copies
A dated local news story or official incident release may include an arrest photo. Read only what that item establishes. It may document an arrest and image source while saying nothing about later bail, dismissal, sentence, transfer, or release. The Clearfield County Prison Board minutes are useful for policy and operational context, but they do not publish individual mugshots.
Third-party pages can retain a booking image long after the source record changes. They may omit the photo date, fail to identify the original agency, or confuse a transfer with release. No commercial source was vetted as an authoritative Clearfield County release channel. Do not treat a copied image as a current official record, and do not rely on a paid removal offer as proof of any legal right.
For a county event, corroborate with the jail and UJS docket. For state custody, use PADOC. If an old story is the only visible copy, preserve its date and stated source before drawing a narrow conclusion about that historic event.
Clearfield Mugshots After Expungement
Expungement is available only in specified Pennsylvania categories under 18 Pa.C.S. § 9122. Sections 9122.1 and 9122.2 address orders and Clean Slate limited access, while § 9122.3 addresses effects and exceptions. A sealed or limited-access docket may disappear from public search even though a historical custody event happened. That silence must not be read as proof that a person remains confined.
Expungement or limited access does not guarantee that every independent holder deletes an old image. The Pennsylvania State Police expungement route explains the state application process. Ask the agency or publisher that controls a copy about its correction or removal process and provide the relevant court order when appropriate.
No verified Pennsylvania-specific anti-pay-to-remove statute was located in the research sweep. Do not invent a removal guarantee or claim that payment is required. An official record correction belongs with the office that created or maintains the record.
Clearfield Photos Do Not Show Release
A photo answers who appeared in a source image at a certain time. It does not answer where that person is now. A Clearfield County booking image can remain after bond, time served, dismissal, acquittal, parole, transfer, or another custody outcome. Check the docket for legal authority and the custodial record for actual departure.
The PADOC supervised-person record can display a state photo, image date, Release Date, and Last Updated Time. That Release Date is accomplished release into Department supervision. It is not a projected date, and the photo is not the Clearfield County booking image. VINELink content varies, so a photograph should never be promised unless the live Pennsylvania record actually offers one.
For a complete named-person custody check, the Clearfield County released inmate search explains the jail, court, SAVIN, PADOC, federal, and records-request paths. Keep the image secondary to those records.
Note: Always preserve the source and image date because a mugshot alone cannot establish current custody or release.