Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones each agency reported to the FBI, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026. 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 October 2, 2026.
Cumberland County, Illinois, has about 10,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Cumberland County Sheriff's Office and two city agencies. An arrest 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 Cumberland County. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it, with the arrest counts each agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies, cities and common questions.
Related guides: Cumberland County public records, Illinois arrest records, Illinois inmate search and Illinois criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Cumberland County
The Cumberland County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Cumberland County. It reported 1 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists two cities in Cumberland County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Neoga, 1,383 residents: 25 arrests reported for 2023.
- Greenup, 1,347 residents: 17 arrests reported for 2024.
A city on that list is reported separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.
The Casey Police Department is listed by the FBI across two counties including Cumberland County, so its arrests are not broken out for Cumberland County here.
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Cumberland County
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.
- Greenup: 17 for 2024, 7 for 2023, 0 for 2020 and 0 for 2019; 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
- Cumberland County Sheriff's Office: 1 for 2025, 11 for 2024, 35 for 2023, 0 for 2020 and 0 for 2019; 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
- Neoga: 25 for 2023, 20 for 2022 and 0 for 2019; 2020 and 2021 are missing months.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2024 on file reported 28 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2024 and 2023 complete reported 28 in 2024 against 42 in 2023, down 33 percent.
Neoga reported only part of 2024 (11 months) and is left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Cumberland County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Cumberland County 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 2019 the jail held about 14 people. Its rated capacity in 2019 was 31 beds, and it ran at 45 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 Cumberland County Sheriff's Office at inmates.cumberlandcounty.revize.com/bookings (page title: Inmate Locator | Cumberland_County_ME_Inmates_App), a site that blocks automated checks (HTTP 403), so open it in a browser.
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 Cumberland County
An arrest in Cumberland County can be traced in three places, depending on where the case stands: the custody page of the Cumberland County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Circuit Court of Cumberland 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 cumberlandcoil.gov/states-attorney, phone (217) 849-2311).
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at illinoiscourts.gov/courts-directory/85/Cumberland-County-Courthouse... (page title: Cumberland County Courthouse | State of Illinois Office of the Illinois Courts), phone (217) 849-3871, belongs to a lower court, not to the Circuit Court of Cumberland 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 Cumberland County
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 Cumberland County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Neoga or Greenup: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the State's Attorney, (217) 849-2311, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: in the Circuit Court of Cumberland County it is kept by the Circuit Clerk. The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at illinoiscourts.gov, phone (217) 849-3871, is a lower court's.
- Your own statewide record: a name-based or fingerprint-based request to the Illinois State Police.
Cities in Cumberland County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for two of the four cities in Cumberland County: Neoga and Greenup. Toledo and Jewett have no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Circuit Court of Cumberland County.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Cumberland County each year?
Greenup reported 17 arrests to the FBI for 2024, and the two agencies with every month of 2024 on file reported 28 between them.
Where are people arrested in Cumberland County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Cumberland County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Cumberland County?
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 Cumberland County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Cumberland County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. Under the Illinois Freedom of Information Act the answer is due within 5 business days, with one 5-day extension.
Is this the official Cumberland County website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.