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 27, 2026 and October 2, 2026.
Henry County, Missouri, has about 23,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Henry County Sheriff's Office and one city 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 Henry 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: Henry County public records, Missouri arrest records, Missouri inmate search and Missouri criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Henry County
The Henry County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Henry County. It reported 186 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists one city in Henry County with a reporting agency of its own:
- Clinton, 9,449 residents: 282 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 Henry 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.
- Clinton: 282 for 2025, 297 for 2023 and 233 for 2019; 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2024 are missing months.
- Henry County Sheriff's Office: 186 for 2025, 75 for 2024, 90 for 2023, 93 for 2022, 70 for 2021 and 71 for 2019; 2020 is missing months.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 468 arrests that year. The one of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 186 in 2025 against 75 in 2024, up 148 percent.
Through July 2026, the two agencies with every month so far on file reported 265 arrests, against 278 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Henry County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Henry 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 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 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 Henry County
An arrest in Henry County 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 Henry County
An arrest report belongs to the agency whose officer wrote it, and that agency releases it, not the court or the jail. 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 Henry County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Clinton: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
- 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.
Cities in Henry County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for one of the nine cities in Henry County: Clinton. Windsor, Urich, Calhoun, Montrose, Deepwater, Blairstown, Brownington and Tightwad 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 Henry County Circuit Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Henry County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Clinton (9,449)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Henry County each year?
Clinton reported 282 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the two agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 468 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Henry County?
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 Henry County 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 Henry 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 Henry County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Henry 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 Henry 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.