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 on September 23, 2026.
Logan County, Illinois, has about 28,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Logan County Sheriff's Office and three 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 Logan 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: Logan County public records, Illinois arrest records, Illinois inmate search and Illinois criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Logan County
The Logan County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Logan County. It reported 104 arrests for 2025.
Arrests inside three of the county's cities are reported to the FBI by an agency of the city's own, listed here with the Census population and what each reported:
- Lincoln, 13,047 residents: 452 arrests reported for 2025.
- Atlanta, 1,634 residents: 1,152 arrests reported for 2025.
- Mount Pulaski, 1,506 residents: 2 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.
The San Jose Police Department is listed by the FBI across two counties including Logan County, so its arrests are not broken out for Logan County here.
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Logan 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.
- Atlanta: 1,152 for 2025, 1,152 for 2024, 1,146 for 2023, 1,132 for 2022, 919 for 2021 and 1,146 for 2020.
- Lincoln: 452 for 2025, 305 for 2024, 336 for 2023, 374 for 2022 and 452 for 2021.
- Logan County Sheriff's Office: 104 for 2025, 127 for 2024, 115 for 2023, 156 for 2022 and 82 for 2021.
- Mount Pulaski: 2 for 2025, 1 for 2024, 1 for 2023, 1 for 2022, 1 for 2021 and 1 for 2020.
Together, the four agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,710 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 1,710 in 2025 against 1,585 in 2024, up 7.9 percent.
Through August 2026, the three agencies with every month so far on file reported 1,071 arrests, against 1,073 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Logan County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Logan 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 39 people. Its rated capacity in 2019 was 65 beds, and it ran at 60 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
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 Logan County
For Logan County the place to look is the State's Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at logancountyil.gov/index.php, phone (217) 732-2184).
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 Logan County
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 Logan County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Lincoln, Atlanta or Mount Pulaski: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the State's Attorney, (217) 732-2184, handles discovery for pending cases.
- Your own statewide record: a name-based or fingerprint-based request to the Illinois State Police.
Cities in Logan County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for three of the ten cities in Logan County: Lincoln, Atlanta and Mount Pulaski. Emden, Elkhart, Latham, Middletown, New Holland, Hartsburg and Broadwell 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 Logan County.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Logan County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Lincoln (13,047)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Logan County each year?
Atlanta reported 1,152 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the four agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 1,710 between them.
Where are people arrested in Logan County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Logan County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Logan 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 Logan County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Logan 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 Logan 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.