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. 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 on September 23, 2026.
Cedar County, Missouri, has about 15,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Cedar County Sheriff's Office and two city agencies. An arrest 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 Cedar County Circuit Court. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it, with the arrest counts each agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies, cities and common questions.
Related guides: Cedar County public records, Missouri arrest records, Missouri inmate search and Missouri criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Cedar County
The Cedar County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Cedar County. It reported 47 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists two cities in Cedar County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- El Dorado Springs, 3,674 residents: 53 arrests reported for 2025.
- Stockton, 1,841 residents: 4 arrests reported for 2025.
A city on that list is reported separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Cedar County
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.
- El Dorado Springs: 53 for 2025, 131 for 2021 and 194 for 2019; 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024 are missing months.
- Cedar County Sheriff's Office: 47 for 2025, 66 for 2024, 41 for 2023, 43 for 2022, 60 for 2021 and 29 for 2020.
- Stockton: 4 for 2025.
Together, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 104 arrests that year. The one of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 47 in 2025 against 66 in 2024, down 29 percent.
Through July 2026, the three agencies with every month so far on file reported 56 arrests, against 52 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Cedar County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Cedar County 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 2023 the jail held about 23 people, down from about 60 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 58 beds, and it ran at 40 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the jail page of the Cedar County Sheriff's Office at cedarcountymo.gov/sheriff (page title: Sheriff | Cedar County Missouri), phone 417.276.5133, 202 South High Street Stockton, MO 65785, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.
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 Cedar County
Whether someone was arrested in Cedar County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Cedar County Circuit Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at cedarcountymo.gov/circuit-clerk, phone 417.276.6700); the Prosecuting Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at cedarcountymo.gov/prosecutor, phone 417.276.6700).
Statewide, Case.net is the Missouri courts' free statewide case search.
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 Cedar County
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 Cedar County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 417.276.5133.
- An arrest in El Dorado Springs or Stockton: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the Prosecuting Attorney, 417.276.6700, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Cedar County Circuit Court, through the court records page at cedarcountymo.gov/circuit-clerk, phone 417.276.6700.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Cedar County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for two of the four cities in Cedar County: El Dorado Springs and Stockton. Jerico Springs and Umber View Heights have no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Cedar County Circuit Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Cedar County each year?
El Dorado Springs reported 53 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the three agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 104 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Cedar County?
Ask the Cedar County Sheriff's Office at 417.276.5133; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at cedarcountymo.gov/sheriff.
Where are people arrested in Cedar County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Cedar County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Cedar County?
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 Cedar County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Cedar County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. Under the Missouri Sunshine Law the answer is due within 3 business days.
Is this the official Cedar 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.