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 4, 2026.
Randolph County, Missouri, has about 24,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Randolph 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 Randolph 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: Randolph County public records, Missouri arrest records, Missouri inmate search and Missouri criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Randolph County
The Randolph County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Randolph County. It reported 72 arrests for 2024, its latest complete year.
The FBI lists two cities in Randolph County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Moberly, 13,337 residents: 206 arrests reported for 2024.
- Huntsville, 1,350 residents: 12 arrests reported for 2019.
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 Randolph County
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.
- Moberly: 206 for 2024, 195 for 2023, 189 for 2022, 318 for 2021 and 552 for 2019; 2020 is missing months.
- Randolph County Sheriff's Office: 72 for 2024, 71 for 2021 and 94 for 2019; 2020, 2022 and 2023 are missing months.
- Huntsville: 12 for 2019.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2024 on file reported 278 arrests that year. The one of them with both 2024 and 2023 complete reported 206 in 2024 against 195 in 2023, up 5.6 percent.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Randolph County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Randolph 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 63 people, up from about 54 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 120 beds, and it ran at 45 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 Randolph County Sheriff's Office at randolphcountyso.org/inmates.html (page title: Redirecting…), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on October 4, 2026.
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 Randolph County
Whether someone was arrested in Randolph County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: 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 randolphcounty-mo.com/departments/randolph-county-prosecuting-attorney, phone 844-277-6555).
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 Randolph 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 Randolph County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Moberly or Huntsville: 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, 844-277-6555, handles discovery for pending cases.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Randolph County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for two of the eight cities in Randolph County: Moberly and Huntsville. Higbee, Clark, Cairo, Renick, Jacksonville and Clifton Hill 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 Randolph County Circuit Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Randolph County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Moberly (13,337)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Randolph County each year?
Moberly reported 206 arrests to the FBI for 2024, and the two agencies with every month of 2024 on file reported 278 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Randolph County?
Ask the Randolph County Sheriff's Office; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at randolphcountyso.org/inmates.html.
Where are people arrested in Randolph County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Randolph County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Randolph 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 Randolph County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Randolph 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 Randolph 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.