Washoe County VINE Is Now S.A.V.E.
Nevada S.A.V.E. Notifications went live on August 28, 2025. The Nevada Attorney General states that the former VINE search and notification service stopped at 8:00 a.m. the next day. An old VINELink bookmark, app instruction, or printed brochure is therefore not the live route for Washoe County in 2026.
The official transition announcement below documents the vendor change and its timing.
What S.A.V.E. Covers in Washoe County
S.A.V.E. draws information from participating Nevada county and local agencies, NDOC, and supported parole or probation events. A match may identify someone held at the Washoe County Detention Facility, someone in NDOC custody, or someone living in the community under P&P supervision. Always read both the source agency and the status.
The scope explains a common puzzle. A person released from prison to parole may still appear because supervision continues. A person who completed custody and supervision may disappear from public search. Neither outcome, by itself, proves an old physical release date.
Coverage also follows agency boundaries. WCSO supplies county-jail events, NDOC supplies state-corrections events, and P&P supplies supported supervision changes. A court order may explain the authority for release without showing the jail’s physical departure time. Search the court named on the booking when the reason for release matters, then use the custodian’s record for the completed event.
| Field or signal | What it can show |
|---|---|
| Person match | Name or supported identifier used to distinguish possible records. |
| Source agency | Whether the event comes from WCSO, NDOC, P&P, or another participating Nevada agency. |
| Custody or supervision status | Whether the person is confined, transferred, released to supervision, or covered by another supported event. |
| Location | The supplying institution or agency when the portal displays one. |
| Notification event | A supported release, transfer, escape, death, parole, probation, or other custody change. |
| Registration channel | The phone, email, or text destination chosen for automated notice. |
Note: Nevada S.A.V.E. supplies periodic notification data, while the releasing agency maintains the official Washoe County custody record.
Search One Washoe County Inmate
Search for one identified person, not a broad list. Have the full name and a state or county identifier when available. Official guidance suggests entering at least the first three letters of both first and last names when spelling is uncertain.
- Open Nevada S.A.V.E.. Confirm that the page is the current Nevada service rather than a legacy VINELink screen.
- Enter the person’s information. Use the full or partial name or a supported state or county ID. Try a documented alternate spelling only when needed.
- Compare possible matches. Use identifiers and agency details. Never assume the first same-name result is the correct person.
- Open the selected record. Read the supplying agency, custody or supervision language, and any supported event information.
- Interpret the system. A WCSO result concerns county custody, an NDOC result concerns state corrections, and P&P language can mean community supervision.
- Save the source and time. If the result matters, note when it was viewed and confirm the event with the agency that supplied it.
The current portal screen below is the correct starting point for a Nevada-specific person search.
Register for Washoe County Release Alerts
After selecting the correct match, S.A.V.E. offers offender-based notification registration. Registration is free, can be anonymous, and does not require an account in every case. One registration can follow transfers among participating Nevada agencies and later custody incidents tied to that person.
- Select the notification option on the correctly matched person record.
- Choose whether to create an account or continue through the registration path offered on the live screen.
- Select phone, email, or text from the channels currently offered for the event.
- Complete the contact verification shown by the current S.A.V.E. interface. Do not substitute instructions from an old VINE brochure.
- Save the registration details and keep the phone number or email address current.
- Confirm an alert with the source agency when the exact physical release time, destination, or legal status matters.
Release messages bypass user-set blackout periods. The service supports English and Spanish and includes text-to-speech. For help, call 866-393-5445 at any time or email NVSave@ag.nv.gov. The published target for an email response is three business days.
Keep registration details private and current. If a phone number changes or an email account closes, update the destination through the service. An anonymous registration can still receive notices, but the user must retain enough information to manage it. When one person has several possible matches, register only after the identifier and source agency align.
The NDOC victim-notification page below describes the current registration channels and participating-agency transfer feature.
Legacy VINE PIN for Washoe County
The archived Nevada VINE brochure described a four-digit telephone PIN. When an automated call arrived, the registrant entered that PIN followed by the pound sign to acknowledge the notice. If the call was not acknowledged, the old system repeated calls for a limited period. Email alerts did not use that telephone PIN.
Follow only the verification steps shown on the live S.A.V.E. screen. This matters because repeating the legacy PIN directions as a current step could leave a registrant waiting for a prompt the new system does not use. Old VINE material remains useful for understanding a prior registration, but it should not control a new Washoe County alert.
Why Washoe County Alerts Follow Transfers
Nevada’s offender-based design is the distinctive local notification feature. A registration can follow a person through participating-agency transfers or a later custody incident, reducing the need to start over each time a Nevada agency changes. That continuity does not make every agency part of the network, and it does not turn an alert into a certified record.
A released person may stop appearing in public search after custody and supervision end. A registration can still matter if the person later returns to a participating system. Conversely, an entry may remain visible after institutional release because parole or probation supervision is active. These outcomes are consistent with the portal’s purpose, which is notice about supported status events rather than an archive of all Washoe County releases.
Transfers require careful wording. An alert that reports movement from the Washoe County Detention Facility to NDOC or another participating agency marks a change of custodian. It does not mean the person went home. Open the new agency record, read its status, and wait for a later release or discharge event before describing community release.
Washoe County Registry Searches Differ
S.A.V.E. is also separate from public offender registries. The Nevada Sex Offender Registry covers qualifying registrants whose disclosure is authorized. Washoe County, Reno, and Sparks announced a combined OffenderWatch public portal, while the Washoe Tribe operates its own registry for qualifying connections to tribal lands.
No single one of these searches is comprehensive. Registry presence does not certify a custody release date, and registry absence does not prove that a person was never held or released. Use a registry only for its defined public notification function. Use S.A.V.E. for supported custody and supervision alerts, then use WCSO or NDOC records for the actual release event.
Confirm a Washoe County Release
S.A.V.E. can lag because agencies provide periodic information. A no-result may mean the person is no longer publicly shown, the spelling or identifier does not match, the agency is outside coverage, or the event has not posted. It cannot confirm an old release on its own.
For a Washoe jail release, call WCSO’s custody-status line at 775-328-3062 and request the detention release transaction from WCSO Records when an exact time or destination is needed. For an NDOC prisoner, compare the Offender Search and official release data, then request the underlying record if the fields are blank. For a person on community supervision, contact Nevada P&P.
Federal custody requires a different route. Use the BOP Inmate Locator for a federal sentence and the ICE Online Detainee Locator for present or recent immigration detention. A WCSO transfer to NDOC, USMS, ICE, another county, or another secure setting is not community release. The broader Washoe County released-inmate verification path explains how to trace those handoffs without treating disappearance from a live roster as proof.
The BOP locator can show a federal prisoner as “Released” or “Not in BOP Custody,” but those phrases do not rule out state, county, immigration, or supervised-release status. ICE’s locator serves present and recent immigration detention and has separate search fields. USMS has no comparable public historical name locator, so a federal court docket and the later receiving record may be needed.
For an older Washoe County event, request a narrow detention record. Include the full name, another reliable identifier, booking number when known, a tight date range, and the fields needed: release date and time, disposition, releasing authority, destination, and holds or transfers. That request is much more likely to answer the historical question than repeated searches of a notification portal designed around current status.
Note: State the agency and timestamp when reporting an alert, then ask the custodian for the final Washoe County release record.