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 between September 30, 2026 and October 2, 2026.
Clinton County, Missouri, has about 22,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Clinton County Sheriff's Office, five city agencies and one other agency. 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 Clinton 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: Clinton County public records, Missouri arrest records, Missouri inmate search and Missouri criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Clinton County
The Clinton County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Clinton County. It reported 48 arrests for 2025.
Arrests inside five of the county's cities are reported to the FBI by an agency of the city's own, listed here with the Census population and what each reported:
- Cameron, 7,352 residents: 73 arrests reported for 2025.
- Lathrop, 2,275 residents: 18 arrests reported for 2025.
- Plattsburg, 2,256 residents: 47 arrests reported for 2019.
- Gower, 1,531 residents: 3 arrests reported for 2022.
- Trimble, 654 residents: 1,177 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.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Clinton County: Cameron School (other).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Clinton 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.
- Trimble: 1,177 for 2025, 1,175 for 2024, 1,176 for 2023, 1,170 for 2022, 1,145 for 2021 and 1,167 for 2020.
- Cameron: 73 for 2025, 103 for 2024, 102 for 2023, 155 for 2022, 125 for 2021 and 101 for 2020.
- Clinton County Sheriff's Office: 48 for 2025, 220 for 2024, 145 for 2023, 136 for 2022, 170 for 2021 and 578 for 2019; 2020 is missing months.
- Lathrop: 18 for 2025, 0 for 2024, 0 for 2023, 0 for 2021 and 62 for 2019; 2020 and 2022 are missing months.
- Plattsburg: 47 for 2019.
- Gower: 3 for 2022 and 1 for 2021.
Together, the four agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,316 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 1,316 in 2025 against 1,498 in 2024, down 12 percent.
Through August 2026, the four agencies with every month so far on file reported 983 arrests, against 879 in the same months of 2025.
Plattsburg and Gower reported only part of 2025 (1 month and 11 months) and are left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Clinton County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Clinton County 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 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 Clinton County
An arrest in Clinton County can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: 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 Clinton 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 Clinton County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Cameron, Lathrop, Plattsburg, Gower or Trimble: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
- An arrest by Cameron School: the records office of the agency involved.
- 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.
Cities in Clinton County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for five of the six cities in Clinton County: Cameron, Lathrop, Plattsburg, Gower and Trimble. Turney has 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 Clinton County Circuit Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Clinton County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Cameron (7,352)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Clinton County each year?
Trimble reported 1,177 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the four agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 1,316 between them.
Where are people arrested in Clinton County 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 Clinton 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 Clinton County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Clinton 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 Clinton 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.