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. Every office link was opened and checked against the office's own site between September 23, 2026 and September 25, 2026.
Woodford County, Illinois, has about 38,000 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 Woodford County is kept and how it is seen.
This guide covers the court file, the statewide record, local arrest records, the prosecutor, sex offender registry, records requests and common questions.
Related guides: Woodford County public records, Woodford County arrest records, Woodford County warrants, Woodford County court records, Woodford County police reports, Illinois arrest records and Illinois inmate search.
Criminal Cases in the Circuit Court of Woodford County
A criminal case from Woodford County is filed in the Circuit Court of Woodford County, and the court file, kept by the Circuit Clerk, is the record of it that the public may see.
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county is at illinoiscourts.gov/courts-directory/58/Woodford-County-Courthouse/c... (page title: Woodford County Courthouse | State of Illinois Office of the Illinois Courts), phone (309) 467-3312, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026. That page belongs to a lower court, not to the Circuit Court of Woodford 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 Woodford County
The Woodford County Sheriff's Office and the agencies that report for Eureka, Metamora, El Paso, Washburn and Goodfield keep the arrest records in Woodford 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 Woodford County: Eureka College (campus police); it keeps the records of its own arrests.
The Deer Creek Police Department is listed by the FBI across two counties including Woodford County, so its arrests are not broken out for Woodford County here.
Together, the two agencies in Woodford County with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 2,304 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 Woodford County arrest records.
The State's Attorney for Woodford County
Charges in Woodford County are filed by the State's Attorney, which reviews the arrests of every agency in the county and brings the cases in the Circuit Court of Woodford County.
The office's page SearchSystems verified is at highway.woodfordcountyil.gov/196/Erik-Gibson-States-Attorney (page title: State's Attorney | Woodford County, IL), phone 309-467-3212, 115 N. Main St. Room 305 Eureka, IL 61530, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.
The Sex Offender Registry for Woodford County
Registered sex offenders living in Woodford 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 Woodford 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. The county records request page SearchSystems verified is at woodfordcountyil.gov/601/Vital-Records-Requests (page title: Vital Records Requests | Woodford County, IL).
Frequently Asked Questions
Are criminal records public in Woodford 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 Woodford County criminal cases online?
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county is at illinoiscourts.gov (page title: Woodford County Courthouse | State of Illinois Office of the Illinois Courts); it belongs to a lower court, not to the Circuit Court of Woodford 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 Woodford County?
The State's Attorney, reached at 309-467-3212, which files its cases in the Circuit Court of Woodford County.
Is this the official Woodford 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.