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 26, 2026 and October 2, 2026.
Cameron, Missouri, in Clinton County, has about 7,400 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: Cameron public records, Clinton County arrest records, Missouri arrest records and Missouri inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Cameron
The FBI lists Cameron with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Cameron Police Department. It reported 73 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 48 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Clinton County: Cameron School (other).
How Many Arrests Cameron 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.
- Cameron: 73 for 2025, 103 for 2024, 102 for 2023, 155 for 2022, 125 for 2021 and 101 for 2020.
Cameron's 73 arrests in 2025 were down 29 percent from 103 in 2024.
Through August 2026, Cameron reported 34 arrests, against 57 in the same months of 2025.
Across Clinton County, the four agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,316 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Cameron Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Cameron 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 20 people. Its rated capacity in 2019 was 30 beds, and it ran at 67 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 Missouri Department of Corrections lists its inmates at web.mo.gov/doc/offSearchWeb.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Cameron
Whether someone was arrested in Cameron, and what came of it, shows up in two places: Case.net, the Missouri courts' free statewide case search, which shows whether charges were filed; the Prosecuting Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at clintoncomo.org/government/courthouse/prosecuting-attorney, phone 816-539-3711).
Missouri is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: the open record search on the MACHS site lets anyone check convictions by name, through the Missouri State Highway Patrol Criminal Justice Information Services Division. 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 Cameron
An arrest report belongs to the agency whose officer wrote it, and that agency releases it, not the court or the jail. Under the Missouri Sunshine Law the agency must answer within 3 business days, and it may charge research time and copying.
- An arrest by the Cameron police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at cameronmo.com/303/Records-Department (page title: Records Department | Cameron, MO), phone 816-632-6521, Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., 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, 816-539-3711, handles discovery for pending cases.
- 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 Cameron each year?
Cameron reported 73 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
Where are people arrested in Cameron 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 Cameron?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Missouri State Highway Patrol Criminal Justice Information Services Division: the open record search on the MACHS site lets anyone check convictions by name. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Missouri Sunshine Law.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Cameron?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Cameron police for its own arrests, the Clinton County Sheriff's Office for the sheriff's. Under the Missouri Sunshine Law the answer is due within 3 business days.
Is this the official Cameron 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.