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.
Greene County, Illinois, has about 11,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Greene County Sheriff's Office and four 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 Greene 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: Greene County public records, Illinois arrest records, Illinois inmate search and Illinois criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Greene County
The Greene County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Greene County. It reported 30 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists four cities in Greene County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Carrollton, 2,374 residents: 6 arrests reported for 2025.
- White Hall, 2,174 residents: 91 arrests reported for 2025.
- Roodhouse, 1,499 residents.
- Greenfield, 1,006 residents: 0 arrests reported for 2025.
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.
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Greene County
Each agency reports its arrests to the FBI by month, and the FBI publishes them 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.
- White Hall: 91 for 2025, 101 for 2024 and 113 for 2023.
- Greene County Sheriff's Office: 30 for 2025, 15 for 2024, 19 for 2023 and 0 for 2019; 2020, 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
- Carrollton: 6 for 2025 and 0 for 2019; 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 are missing months.
- Greenfield: 0 for 2025, 4 for 2024, 9 for 2023, 16 for 2022, 0 for 2020 and 0 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
Together, the four agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 127 arrests that year. The three of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 121 in 2025 against 120 in 2024, up 0.8 percent.
Through June 2026, the three agencies with every month so far on file reported 86 arrests, against 75 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Greene County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Greene County 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 2019 the jail held about 19 people. Its rated capacity in 2019 was 21 beds, and it ran at 90 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 Greene County Sheriff's Office at greenecountyil.org/sheriff (page title: Greene County IL Sheriff's Office | Greene County IL Government), a site that blocks automated checks (HTTP 429), so open it in a browser.
A sentence of more than a year is served in state prison; the Illinois Department of Corrections lists its inmates at idoc.illinois.gov/offender/inmatesearch.html.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Greene County
An arrest in Greene County can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the case index of the Circuit Court of Greene 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 greenecountyil.org/states-attorney, phone 618-600-3564).
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at illinoiscourts.gov/courts-directory/14/Greene-County-Courthouse/court (page title: Greene County Courthouse | State of Illinois Office of the Illinois Courts), phone (217) 942-3421, belongs to a lower court, not to the Circuit Court of Greene 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 Greene 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 Greene County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Carrollton, White Hall, Roodhouse or Greenfield: 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, 618-600-3564, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: in the Circuit Court of Greene County it is kept by the Circuit Clerk. The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at illinoiscourts.gov, phone (217) 942-3421, is a lower court's.
- Your own statewide record: a name-based or fingerprint-based request to the Illinois State Police.
Cities in Greene County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for four of the eight cities in Greene County: Carrollton, White Hall, Roodhouse and Greenfield. Kane, Rockbridge, Eldred and Hillview 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 Greene County.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Greene County each year?
White Hall reported 91 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the four agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 127 between them.
Where are people arrested in Greene County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Greene County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Greene 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 Greene County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Greene 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 Greene 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.