Arrest Records in Clark County
A Clark County arrest can create four records. The arresting agency writes an incident or arrest report. The sheriff creates a booking and custody entry when the person enters the Clark County Jail. The Circuit Clerk opens a case only if the State's Attorney files a charge. Fingerprint-supported data then moves through the Illinois State Police Bureau of Identification reporting chain.
Each record answers a different question. A police report describes the event and legal basis. A booking entry confirms intake and custody status. A criminal court file shows allegations actually filed, hearings, disposition, and sentence. A UCIA response supplies Illinois conviction information held by ISP, while an individual's fingerprint Access and Review is the fuller route for checking their own state history.
Clark County Jail at Fifth Street
The Clark County Sheriff and Jail share 207 North 5th Street in Marshall. The office serves rural areas, helps municipal departments, operates the jail, and handles sheriff reports. The county publishes 217-826-6393 for the office and jail. It does not label that number as a special around-the-clock inmate line, and it does not publish lobby hours, capacity, a local roster, or a detailed inmate profile.
The official sheriff page is the source for current contact and custody links.
The page confirms that custody questions and sheriff records begin with the same Clark County office.
Clark County Arrest Lookups
No official Clark County daily arrest-log page or county inmate database was located. The sheriff instead links to VINELink for recent processing, custody status, and notification. When that tool has no same-day result, call the jail. Then identify the arresting agency, because the sheriff does not hold every city or state police narrative.
- Search the sheriff-linked VINELink recent-processing and custody layer.
- Call 217-826-6393 when the booking is new, the spelling varies, or no result appears.
- Ask the arresting agency for its incident or arrest report under its records process.
- Search the Clark Circuit Court index for a later CF, CM, DT, TR, or other filed case.
- Order the disposition from the Circuit Clerk to distinguish pending, dismissed, supervision, acquitted, and convicted results.
- Use UCIA for statewide conviction reporting or fingerprint Access and Review for your own fuller Illinois record.
Absence from one channel settles little. Reporting delay, release, transfer, name variation, and a prosecutor's charging choice can all change what appears.
Find Clark County Bookings on VINE
VINELink is the verified online custody layer linked by the sheriff. It is free and available at all hours. Search controls can vary by state and service release, but supported fields include location, name, identification number when available, custody filters, and notification registration. A result may show custody state, facility or agency, an identifier, and options for change alerts.
The official custody interface pictured below is a status tool, not a complete Clark County arrest report.
Do not infer an unverified mugshot, bond, housing unit, medical detail, or court date from fields the county has not promised.
VINEmobile is the statewide VINE app. Clark County does not advertise its own sheriff app. Readers who want app alerts should use the official VINE product rather than look for a nonexistent local download.
Arrest Records: What They Contain
An agency arrest report and sheriff booking record overlap, but they are not identical. The report can document the reported event, legal basis, evidence, and people involved. Booking begins after transport and records the custody intake. Public copies may omit juveniles, private identifiers, protected victims and witnesses, medical data, and active investigative detail.
| Identity and report number | Links the agency event and person named in the record. |
|---|---|
| Date, time, and place | Records occurrence and arrest timing and location. |
| Agency and officer | Identifies the unit responsible for the arrest report. |
| Legal basis | States an alleged offense, statute, warrant, or other asserted authority. |
| Report narrative | Describes the incident, subject to exemptions and redaction. |
| Booking intake | May add intake time, fingerprints, photo, initial charges, holds, and custody state. |
| Release or transfer | Shows a custody change when maintained and publicly available. |
These are supported field types, not a promise that every item appears in a remote Clark County result.
Clark County Arresting Agency Routes
The right report custodian depends on who made the arrest. Clark County Sheriff reports start at the Fifth Street office. Marshall Police, Casey Police, and Martinsville Police each use their own city channel. ISP handles state-highway or state-investigation reports, and Illinois Conservation Police records route through the Department of Natural Resources.
| Agency | Record route | Key limit |
|---|---|---|
| Clark County Sheriff | 207 N. 5th St.; 217-826-6393 | $5 report copy |
| Marshall Police | 201 S. Michigan Ave.; city FOIA channel | City report, not court disposition |
| Casey Police | Police-specific city channel | Confirm county because Casey crosses the boundary |
| Martinsville Police | 55 W. Cumberland St.; City Hall process | No online blotter located |
| Illinois State Police | ISP district or FOIA route | Not a sheriff report |
A Casey event needs special care. The city crosses Clark and Cumberland Counties, so confirm the county printed on the citation or tied to the incident before searching a circuit docket.
Recent Clark County Bookings
The recent-booking layer is VINELink plus the sheriff's phone, not a county-hosted gallery. The office publishes no complete daily log and no inspectable local inmate profile. A very recent intake may not yet appear online. Call the jail with the correct spelling and enough identifying context, but do not treat phone confirmation as the final court outcome.
Booking normally moves through transport, identity and charge intake, property inventory, fingerprinting and photography, warrant checks, health screening, classification, a pretrial appearance or detention decision, housing, and release or transfer. That workflow describes process stages. It does not claim each detail is public in Clark County.
The sheriff building page provides the verified local location and report-copy information.
The image ties the records counter and booking custodian to 207 North 5th Street.
Clark County Sheriff and Jail
207 N. 5th Street
Marshall, IL 62441
217-826-6393
Call before a visit because counter and lobby hours were not published.
Clark County Custody After Jail
VINELink covers local custody status. A person sentenced to state prison or supervised on parole or mandatory supervised release belongs in the IDOC Individual in Custody Search. Public IDOC profiles may disclose the name, IDOC number, parent institution, current location or status, vital statistics, admission and release dates, and sentencing information.
The Illinois custody search pictured below is for state corrections, not the Clark County Jail.
Use it only after the record indicates a state-corrections connection.
For a completed IDOC sentence, use the department's Contact Us process with the General Subject “Record Search.” The IDOC records and parole FAQ explains the public and restricted layers.
Archived corrections records and active county booking records therefore require different official channels.
Arrest Records vs Conviction Records
An arrest is an enforcement action based on asserted legal grounds. A conviction is a court judgment after a plea or finding. The State's Attorney may decline a charge, amend it, or file a different offense than the arresting agency listed. A filed case may later be dismissed, end in supervision, produce an acquittal, or lead to conviction.
| Question | Arrest or booking record | Conviction record |
|---|---|---|
| Who creates it? | Arresting agency and sheriff jail | Circuit Court judgment; reported to ISP |
| What does it prove? | Custody processing or an alleged event | A final conviction judgment |
| Best Clark source | Agency report, jail phone, or VINE | Circuit Clerk disposition |
| State source | Own fingerprint Access and Review may show the cycle | UCIA conviction information held by ISP |
| Can it change? | Initial charges may be amended or never filed | Appeal, vacatur, sealing, or expungement can affect access |
The Clark County court case lookup is the next step when the question shifts from custody to prosecution and judgment.
Compare each arrest charge with the later filed count, then read the disposition for every count. One case can contain a conviction, dismissal, and amended charge at the same time. A certified clerk disposition gives more reliable context than an isolated booking label or an old custody result.
Correct Clark County Arrest Cycles
An arrest cycle can look incomplete when ISP has not matched the final disposition, when a name search joins the wrong identity, or when an older court file is not digitized. Start with the originating arrest report and obtain a certified disposition from the Circuit Clerk. Compare case number, arrest date, charge, and identifying information before asking an agency to change its record.
For one's own Illinois history, ISP's fingerprint Access and Review provides the fuller state transcript and a Record Challenge path. ISP charges no Access-and-Review fee, though a licensed live-scan vendor may charge for fingerprints. A UCIA public inquiry is conviction information, not the subject's complete fingerprint history.
Crash reports also follow their own route. The ISP crash report order page concerns traffic-crash records, not a general Clark County arrest search.
The separate screen illustrates why the record type and originating agency must be identified before submitting a request.