Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest and crime counts are the ones each agency reported to the FBI, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026. Every office link was opened and checked against the office's own site between September 23, 2026 and October 2, 2026.
Henry County, Illinois, has about 48,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate). In Illinois the public criminal record is the court file, kept by the Circuit Clerk; the statewide criminal history kept by the Illinois State Police is open to anyone who asks. This guide says where each record of a criminal case from Henry County is kept and how it is seen.
This guide covers the court file, the statewide record, local arrest records, the crimes behind the records, the prosecutor, sex offender registry, records requests and common questions.
Related guides: Henry County public records, Henry County arrest records, Henry County warrants, Henry County inmate search, Henry County court records, Illinois arrest records and Illinois inmate search.
Criminal Cases in the Circuit Court of Henry County
In Illinois the public criminal record is the court file. Criminal cases from Henry County are heard by the Circuit Court of Henry County, which hears every civil, criminal, family, probate, traffic and juvenile case, and the file of each case is kept by the Circuit Clerk.
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county is at henrycountycourts.org/case-search (page title: Henry County Court Case Search), 307 W. Center Street, Cambridge, IL 61238, Monday - Friday: 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m., which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026. That page belongs to a lower court, not to the Circuit Court of Henry County.
Illinois has no single public index of every trial court case; each court's records are looked up through that court.
The Illinois Criminal History and Your Own Copy
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. The result is the repository record, what agencies reported to the state, which is wider than one county's court index but can lag it.
To see your own record, the route is a name-based or fingerprint-based request to the Illinois State Police. The state page SearchSystems verified for it is at isp.illinois.gov/BureauOfIdentification/MyRecord.
Arrest Records Kept Locally in Henry County
The Henry County Sheriff's Office and the agencies that report for Kewanee, Geneseo, Colona, Galva, Cambridge, Orion and four more cities keep the arrest records in Henry County: the report and the booking record of each arrest stay with the agency that made it, separate from the court file and from the state repository.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Henry County: Black Hawk College at Kewanee (campus police); it keeps the records of its own arrests.
The Coal Valley Police Department is listed by the FBI across two counties including Henry County, so its arrests are not broken out for Henry County here.
Together, the nine agencies in Henry County with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 2,848 arrests to the FBI that year; how each case ended is in the court file, not in the arresting agency's.
The agencies and their counts, year by year, are in Henry County arrest records.
The Crimes Behind the Records: Henry County in 2025
The seven agencies in Henry County with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 14 violent and 184 property crimes to the FBI that year; the same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 198 crimes in 2025 against 220 in 2024. Each reported crime is a report on file with the agency that took it, and each arrest that follows is the start of a criminal record.
The full crime section, agency by agency, is on the Henry County public records guide.
The State's Attorney for Henry County
The State's Attorney decides which arrests in Henry County become charges and files them in the Circuit Court of Henry County; the office answers questions about pending prosecutions, and the case files themselves are court records.
The office's page SearchSystems verified is at henrycty.com/264/States-Attorney (page title: State's Attorney | Henry County, IL), phone 309-937-3582, 307 West Center Street Cambridge, IL 61238, Monday through Friday 8:00 am to 4:30 pm, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.
The Sex Offender Registry for Henry County
Registered sex offenders living in Henry County are listed on the Illinois Sex Offender Registry, run by the Illinois State Police at illinois.gov. The registry is public and can be searched online.
Registration itself is done in person with the local agency where the registrant lives: the sheriff's office, or the city police in a city with its own department.
Asking an Agency in Henry County for a Record
An arrest report, a booking record or a local criminal history letter comes from the agency that holds it, not from the court.
Under the Illinois Freedom of Information Act a county office must answer a request within 5 business days, with one 5-day extension, and it may charge copying only after the first 50 pages.
Frequently Asked Questions
Are criminal records public in Henry 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.
Can I search Henry County criminal cases online?
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county is at henrycountycourts.org/case-search (page title: Henry County Court Case Search); it belongs to a lower court, not to the Circuit Court of Henry County.
How do I get my own Illinois criminal history?
Through a name-based or fingerprint-based request to the Illinois State Police.
Who prosecutes crimes in Henry County?
The State's Attorney, reached at 309-937-3582, which files its cases in the Circuit Court of Henry County.
Is this the official Henry 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.