Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones the agency reported to the FBI, through 2025. 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 30, 2026.
St. Johns, Michigan, in Clinton County, has about 7,700 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and its arrests are reported to the FBI by an agency of its own. An arrest in the city leaves the same records whoever makes it: the arresting agency's report, the record of anyone held at the county jail, and, if the Prosecuting Attorney files charges, a case in the Clinton County Circuit Court. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it, with the arrest counts the agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies and common questions.
Related guides: St. Johns public records, Clinton County arrest records, Michigan arrest records and Michigan inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in St. Johns
The FBI lists St. Johns with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as St. Johns Police Department. It reported 52 arrests for 2025. A city is listed separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.
Outside the city, the Clinton County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 285 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Clinton County: the Clinton County State Police (state police); the Capitol Region Airport Authority (other).
How Many Arrests St. Johns Reports
The FBI publishes every agency's monthly arrest counts 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.
- St. Johns: 52 for 2025, 46 for 2024, 24 for 2023, 37 for 2022, 51 for 2021 and 69 for 2020.
St. Johns's 52 arrests in 2025 were up 13 percent from 46 in 2024.
Through September 2026, St. Johns reported 25 arrests, against 39 in the same months of 2025.
Across Clinton County, the five agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 562 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in St. Johns Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in St. Johns 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 2020 the jail held about 130 people, down from about 220 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 236 beds, and it ran at 93 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
A person sentenced to prison serves the sentence in a facility of the Michigan Department of Corrections, whose inmate locator is at mdocweb.state.mi.us/otis2.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in St. Johns
Whether someone was arrested in St. Johns, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Clinton County Circuit Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at micourt.courts.michigan.gov/court-display/display/public/mVZlbvvvSE...); the Prosecuting Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at clinton-county.org/340/Prosecuting-Attorneys-Office, phone 989-224-5100).
Statewide, MiCOURT Case Search is the Michigan courts' statewide case search; not every court has joined.
Michigan is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: ICHAT lets anyone search public criminal history by name, for $10 a search, through the Michigan 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 St. Johns
An arrest report belongs to the agency whose officer wrote it, and that agency releases it, not the court or the jail. Under the Michigan Freedom of Information Act the agency must answer within 5 business days, with a 10-day extension, and it may charge labor and copying, at rates the law caps.
- An arrest by the St. Johns police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at cityofstjohnsmi.com/topic/subtopic.php?topicid=61&structureid=20 (page title: Police Reports | St. Johns Michigan), phone 989-244-8944, 409 S Whittemore St P.O. Box 477 St Johns, MI 48879, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Clinton County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the Prosecuting Attorney, 989-224-5100, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Clinton County Circuit Court, through the court records page at micourt.courts.michigan.gov.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The Clinton County guide covers every agency in the county: Clinton County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in St. Johns each year?
St. Johns reported 52 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
Where are people arrested in St. Johns booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Clinton County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in St. Johns?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Michigan State Police: ICHAT lets anyone search public criminal history by name, for $10. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Michigan Freedom of Information Act.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in St. Johns?
From the agency that made the arrest: the St. Johns police for its own arrests, the Clinton County Sheriff's Office for the sheriff's. Under the Michigan Freedom of Information Act the answer is due within 5 business days, with a 10-day extension.
Is this the official St. Johns website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official city, county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.