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 23, 2026 and October 2, 2026.
Greene County, Missouri, has about 308,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Greene County Sheriff's Office, eight city agencies and five other 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 Greene 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: Greene County public records, Missouri arrest records, Missouri inmate search and Missouri criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Greene County
The Greene County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Greene County. It reported 1,686 arrests for 2025.
Arrests inside eight 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:
- Springfield, 170,596 residents: 6,998 arrests reported for 2025.
- Republic, 21,392 residents: 540 arrests reported for 2025.
- Willard, 6,632 residents: 118 arrests reported for 2025.
- Battlefield, 6,236 residents: 33 arrests reported for 2025.
- Strafford, 2,801 residents: 33 arrests reported for 2025.
- Fair Grove, 1,625 residents: 24 arrests reported for 2025.
- Ash Grove, 1,523 residents: 92 arrests reported for 2025.
- Walnut Grove, 642 residents: 10 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 Rogersville Police Department is listed by the FBI across two counties including Greene County, so its arrests are not broken out for Greene County here.
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 Each Agency Reports in Greene 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.
- Springfield: 6,998 for 2025, 7,388 for 2024, 7,755 for 2023, 6,787 for 2022, 6,489 for 2021 and 6,531 for 2020.
- Greene County Sheriff's Office: 1,686 for 2025, 1,199 for 2024, 1,313 for 2023, 1,761 for 2022, 1,738 for 2021 and 888 for 2020.
- 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.
- Willard: 118 for 2025, 98 for 2024, 136 for 2023, 173 for 2022, 210 for 2021 and 442 for 2019; 2020 is missing months.
- Ash Grove: 92 for 2025, 81 for 2024, 114 for 2023, 67 for 2022, 41 for 2021 and 31 for 2019; 2020 is missing months.
- Battlefield: 33 for 2025, 49 for 2024, 59 for 2023, 29 for 2022, 73 for 2021 and 103 for 2020.
- Strafford: 33 for 2025, 34 for 2024, 16 for 2023, 4 for 2022, 9 for 2020 and 24 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
- Fair Grove: 24 for 2025, 21 for 2024, 22 for 2023 and 108 for 2019; 2020, 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
- Walnut Grove: 10 for 2025, 31 for 2024, 27 for 2023, 11 for 2021, 7 for 2020 and 22 for 2019; 2022 is missing months.
Together, the nine agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 9,534 arrests that year. The eight of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 7,848 in 2025 against 8,266 in 2024, down 5.1 percent.
Through June 2026, the eight agencies with every month so far on file reported 4,413 arrests, against 4,331 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Greene County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Greene 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 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 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 Greene County
Whether someone was arrested in Greene County, 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 Greene 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 Greene County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Springfield, Republic, Willard, Battlefield, Strafford, Fair Grove or another of the cities listed above: 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 Springfield-Branson Airport, Springfield Public Schools or the Logan-Rogersville School District: the records office of the agency involved.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Greene County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for every one of the eight cities in Greene County: Springfield, Republic, Willard, Battlefield, Strafford, Fair Grove, Ash Grove and Walnut Grove.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Greene County Circuit Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Greene County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Springfield (170,596)
- Republic (21,392)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Greene County each year?
Springfield reported 6,998 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the nine agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 9,534 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Greene County?
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 Greene County 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 Greene 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 Greene County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Greene 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 Greene 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.