Shiloh Arrest Records: Who Makes Arrests, Where People Are Booked and How to Get the Report

Who Makes Arrests in Shiloh

The FBI lists Shiloh with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Shiloh Police Department. It reported 112 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 St. Clair County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 248 arrests for 2025.

The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in St. Clair County: Alton and Southern Railway and Union Pacific Railroad in St. Clair County (other); Southwestern Illinois College (campus police).

How Many Arrests Shiloh 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.

• Shiloh: 112 for 2025, 70 for 2024, 88 for 2023 and 58 for 2022.

Shiloh's 112 arrests in 2025 were up 60 percent from 70 in 2024.

Through August 2026, Shiloh reported 103 arrests, against 74 in the same months of 2025.

Across St. Clair County, the 17 agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 6,114 arrests between them.

Booking: Where People Arrested in Shiloh Are Held

A person kept in custody after an arrest in Shiloh is held at the county jail, whichever agency made the arrest, apart from the short stay some city departments' own holding cells allow; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked at all. The jail's record of each person held, with the charges, is a public record of the arrest, and the court file takes over from there.

On an average day in 2021 the jail held about 450 people, up from about 350 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 418 beds, and it ran at 84 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.

SearchSystems opened and checked the jail page of the St. Clair County Sheriff's Office at co.st-clair.il.us/departments/sheriffs-department (page title: Sheriff's Department | Departments | St. Clair), phone (618) 277-3505, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on October 4, 2026.

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 Shiloh

For Shiloh the place to look is the State's Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at co.st-clair.il.us/departments/states-attorney, phone (618) 277-3892).

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 Shiloh

The report of an arrest is released by the agency that made it; the jail and the court hold their own records of the same event, but not the report. 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 Shiloh police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at shilohil.org/village-hall/police-department (page title: Police Department | Village of Shiloh, Illinois), phone 618-624-4545, 3498 Lebanon Avenue Shiloh, IL 62221, Mon-Fri 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
• An arrest by the St. Clair County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (618) 277-3505.
• A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the State's Attorney, (618) 277-3892, handles discovery for pending cases.
• Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at stclaircountyil.justfoia.com (page title: St. Clair County, IL Public Portal | JustFOIA).
• Your own statewide record: a name-based or fingerprint-based request to the Illinois State Police.

The St. Clair County guide covers every agency in the county: St. Clair County arrest records.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many arrests are made in Shiloh each year?

Shiloh reported 112 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.

How do I find out if someone is in jail in Shiloh?

Ask the St. Clair County Sheriff's Office at (618) 277-3505; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at co.st-clair.il.us.

Where are people arrested in Shiloh booked?

Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the St. Clair County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.

Are arrest records public in Shiloh?

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 Shiloh?

From the agency that made the arrest: the Shiloh police for its own arrests, the St. Clair 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; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at stclaircountyil.justfoia.com.

Is this the official Shiloh 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.