Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones the agency reported to the FBI, through 2025. The jail figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data. Every office link was opened and checked against the office's own site between September 23, 2026 and September 25, 2026.
Bradley, Illinois, in Kankakee County, has about 15,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and its arrests are reported to the FBI by an agency of its own. An arrest in the city leaves the same records whoever makes it: the arresting agency's report, the record of anyone held at the county jail, and, if the State's Attorney files charges, a case in the Circuit Court of Kankakee County. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it, with the arrest counts the agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies and common questions.
Related guides: Bradley public records, Kankakee County arrest records, Illinois arrest records and Illinois inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Bradley
The FBI lists Bradley with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Bradley Police Department. It reported 402 arrests for 2025. A city is listed separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.
Outside the city, the Kankakee County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 157 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Kankakee County: Kankakee Community College (campus police).
How Many Arrests Bradley Reports
The FBI publishes every agency's monthly arrest counts on the Crime Data Explorer. These are the full-year totals, all offenses, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026; a year with months missing or not reported is left out.
- Bradley: 402 for 2025, 399 for 2024 and 377 for 2023.
Bradley's 402 arrests in 2025 were up 0.8 percent from 399 in 2024.
Through August 2026, Bradley reported 327 arrests, against 268 in the same months of 2025.
Across Kankakee County, the six agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 841 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Bradley Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Bradley and kept in custody ends up, whichever agency made the arrest, though a city department may hold someone in its own cells first and a person cited and released at the scene is never booked. The jail's record of each person held, with the charges, is a public record of the arrest, and once the person is released or sentenced the record continues in the court file.
On an average day in 2023 the jail held about 620 people, up from about 600 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 700 beds, and it ran at 88 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the custody page of the Kankakee County Sheriff's Office at kankakeecountysheriff.com/inmate-search (page title: Inmate Search | Kankakee County Sheriff's Office), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.
That page is the place to look for someone who was booked recently; a person cited and released at the scene, or held only a few hours by a city department, will not be on it.
A person sentenced to prison serves the sentence in a facility of the Illinois Department of Corrections, whose inmate locator is at idoc.illinois.gov/offender/inmatesearch.html.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Bradley
An arrest in Bradley can be traced in three places, depending on where the case stands: the custody page of the Kankakee County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Circuit Court of Kankakee County, kept by the Circuit Clerk, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date; the State's Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at k3county.net/m/directory/department?did=41, phone 815-936-5801).
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at illinoiscourts.gov/courts-directory/24/Kankakee-County-Courthouse-/... (page title: Kankakee County Courthouse | State of Illinois Office of the Illinois Courts), phone (815) 937-2915, belongs to a lower court, not to the Circuit Court of Kankakee County.
Illinois is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: conviction information is public under the Uniform Conviction Information Act, through the Illinois State Police. That record shows what agencies reported to the state, which is wider than one county's court index but can lag it.
Getting a Copy of an Arrest Record in Bradley
An arrest report belongs to the agency whose officer wrote it, and that agency releases it, not the court or the jail. Under the Illinois Freedom of Information Act the agency must answer within 5 business days, with one 5-day extension, and it may charge copying only after the first 50 pages.
- An arrest by the Bradley police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at bradleyil.org/police/records (page title: Records | Village of Bradley), phone 815 936 5100, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
- An arrest by the Kankakee County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the State's Attorney, 815-936-5801, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: in the Circuit Court of Kankakee County it is kept by the Circuit Clerk. The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at illinoiscourts.gov, phone (815) 937-2915, is a lower court's.
- Your own statewide record: a name-based or fingerprint-based request to the Illinois State Police.
The Kankakee County guide covers every agency in the county: Kankakee County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Bradley each year?
Bradley reported 402 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Bradley?
Look on the custody page of the Kankakee County Sheriff's Office at kankakeecountysheriff.com/inmate-search. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Bradley booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Kankakee County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Bradley?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Illinois State Police: conviction information is public under the Uniform Conviction Information Act. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Illinois Freedom of Information Act.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Bradley?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Bradley police for its own arrests, the Kankakee County Sheriff's Office for the sheriff's. Under the Illinois Freedom of Information Act the answer is due within 5 business days, with one 5-day extension.
Is this the official Bradley website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official city, county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.