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.
Clinton, Missouri, in Henry County, has about 9,400 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 Henry 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: Clinton public records, Henry County arrest records, Missouri arrest records and Missouri inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Clinton
The FBI lists Clinton with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Clinton Police Department. It reported 282 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 Henry County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 186 arrests for 2025.
How Many Arrests Clinton Reports
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.
- Clinton: 282 for 2025, 297 for 2023 and 233 for 2019; 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2024 are missing months.
Through July 2026, Clinton reported 163 arrests, against 173 in the same months of 2025.
Across Henry County, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 468 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Clinton Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Clinton 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 2021 the jail held about 82 people, down from about 100 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 118 beds, and it ran at 85 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 Henry County Sheriff's Office at henrymosheriff.gov/inmateSearch (page title: Henry County Sheriff’s Office, MO), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 27, 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 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 Clinton
An arrest in Clinton can be traced in three places, depending on where the case stands: the custody page of the Henry County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; 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 henrycomo.com/prosecuting-attorney, phone (660)885-7221).
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 Clinton
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 Missouri Sunshine Law the agency must answer within 3 business days, and it may charge research time and copying.
- An arrest by the Clinton police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at cityofclintonmo.gov/departments/police.php (page title: Welcome to Clinton, Missouri), phone 660-885-2679, 101 E. Ohio Street, Clinton, MO 64735, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Henry County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the Prosecuting Attorney, (660)885-7221, handles discovery for pending cases.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The Henry County guide covers every agency in the county: Henry County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Clinton each year?
Clinton reported 282 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Clinton?
Look on the custody page of the Henry County Sheriff's Office at henrymosheriff.gov/inmateSearch. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Clinton booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Henry County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Clinton?
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 Clinton?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Clinton police for its own arrests, the Henry 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 Clinton 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.