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 October 2, 2026.
Republic, Missouri, in Greene County, has about 21,000 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 Greene 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: Republic public records, Greene County arrest records, Missouri arrest records and Missouri inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Republic
The FBI lists Republic with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Republic Police Department. It reported 540 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 Greene County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 1,686 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Greene County: Springfield-Branson Airport, Springfield Public Schools, the Logan-Rogersville School District, Springfield-Greene County Park Rangers and one more (other).
How Many Arrests Republic 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.
- Republic: 540 for 2025, 564 for 2024, 588 for 2023, 552 for 2022, 1,158 for 2020 and 1,521 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
Republic's 540 arrests in 2025 were down 4.3 percent from 564 in 2024.
Through March 2026, Republic reported 84 arrests, against 166 in the same months of 2025.
Across Greene County, the nine agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 9,534 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Republic Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Republic 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 730 people, up from about 730 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 1,242 beds, and it ran at 59 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 Greene County Sheriff's Office at greenecountymo.gov/sheriff/division/detention/jailtracker.php (page title: Inmate Booking Photos and Active Jail Population), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 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 Missouri Department of Corrections, whose inmate locator is at web.mo.gov/doc/offSearchWeb.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Republic
Whether someone was arrested in Republic, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the custody page of the Greene 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.
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 Republic
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 Republic police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at republicmo.com/262/Get-a-Copy-of-a-Police-Report (page title: Get a Copy of a Police Report | Republic, MO), phone 417-732-3900, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
- An arrest by the Greene County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The Greene County guide covers every agency in the county: Greene County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Republic each year?
Republic reported 540 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Republic?
Look on the custody page of the Greene County Sheriff's Office at greenecountymo.gov. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Republic booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Greene County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Republic?
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 Republic?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Republic police for its own arrests, the Greene 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 Republic 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.