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 September 28, 2026.
Montgomery County, Illinois, has about 28,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office and nine 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 Montgomery 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: Montgomery County public records, Illinois arrest records, Illinois inmate search and Illinois criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Montgomery County
The Montgomery County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Montgomery County. It reported 683 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists nine cities in Montgomery County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Litchfield, 6,587 residents: 500 arrests reported for 2024.
- Hillsboro, 5,761 residents: 107 arrests reported for 2025.
- Nokomis, 2,127 residents: 74 arrests reported for 2025.
- Raymond, 919 residents: 0 arrests reported for 2019.
- Witt, 766 residents: 0 arrests reported for 2020.
- Farmersville, 667 residents.
- Coffeen, 628 residents: 1,152 arrests reported for 2025.
- Irving, 363 residents: 1,152 arrests reported for 2025.
- Donnellson, 150 residents.
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 Montgomery 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.
- Irving: 1,152 for 2025, 1,152 for 2024, 1,146 for 2023, 1,132 for 2022, 919 for 2021 and 1,146 for 2020.
- Coffeen: 1,152 for 2025, 1,152 for 2024, 1,146 for 2023, 1,132 for 2022, 919 for 2021 and 1,146 for 2020.
- Montgomery County Sheriff's Office: 683 for 2025, 643 for 2024 and 632 for 2023.
- Hillsboro: 107 for 2025, 193 for 2024, 193 for 2023 and 120 for 2022.
- Nokomis: 74 for 2025, 54 for 2024, 89 for 2023, 0 for 2020 and 0 for 2019; 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
- Litchfield: 500 for 2024, 595 for 2023 and 593 for 2022.
- Witt: 0 for 2020 and 0 for 2019.
- Raymond: 0 for 2019.
Together, the five agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 3,168 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 3,168 in 2025 against 3,194 in 2024, down 0.8 percent.
Through August 2026, the five agencies with every month so far on file reported 1,882 arrests, against 2,170 in the same months of 2025.
Litchfield reported only part of 2025 (11 months) and is left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Montgomery County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Montgomery 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 2023 the jail held about 42 people, up from about 39 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 42 beds, and it ran at 100 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 Montgomery County Sheriff's Office at mcsojail.countygovservices.com/Home/CurrentInmates (page title: Current Inmates | Montgomery County Sheriff's Office), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 28, 2026.
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 Montgomery County
Whether someone was arrested in Montgomery County, and what came of it, shows up in three places: the custody page of the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Circuit Court of Montgomery 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 montgomerycountyil.gov/states-attorney, phone (217) 532-9551).
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at illinoiscourts.gov/courts-directory/153/Montgomery-County-Courthous... (page title: Montgomery County Courthouse | State of Illinois Office of the Illinois Courts), phone (217) 532-9540, belongs to a lower court, not to the Circuit Court of Montgomery 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 Montgomery 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 Montgomery County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Litchfield, Hillsboro, Nokomis, Raymond, Witt, Farmersville or another of the cities listed above: 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) 532-9551, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: in the Circuit Court of Montgomery County it is kept by the Circuit Clerk. The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at illinoiscourts.gov, phone (217) 532-9540, is a lower court's.
- Your own statewide record: a name-based or fingerprint-based request to the Illinois State Police.
Cities in Montgomery County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for nine of the 20 cities in Montgomery County: Litchfield, Hillsboro, Nokomis, Raymond, Witt, Farmersville, Coffeen, Irving and Donnellson. Taylor Springs, Schram City, Panama, Coalton, Fillmore, Waggoner, Harvel, Butler, Ohlman, Walshville and Wenonah 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 Montgomery County.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Montgomery County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Litchfield (6,587)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Montgomery County each year?
Irving reported 1,152 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the five agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 3,168 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Montgomery County?
Look on the custody page of the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office at mcsojail.countygovservices.com. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Montgomery County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Montgomery 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 Montgomery County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Montgomery 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 Montgomery 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.