Putnam County Busted Mugshots is a private reference, not a government office. It cannot confirm whether someone is in custody or has been released, post bond, or pull an official booking record. For a current answer, request, or case result, contact the government office that maintains that information.
Where to Ask About Records
Putnam County records are split by event and custody state. The arresting agency may hold the incident report, while the sheriff and jail handle county booking and custody questions. The Circuit Clerk and Judici show later court activity. Use the official contact points below instead of treating a news story or a missing web result as a custody answer.
Putnam County Sheriff's Office
Sheriff Joshua B. Boedigheimer
120 N. Fourth Street
P.O. Box 177
Hennepin, IL 61327
Main and written-request contact: 815-925-7015
Putnam County Circuit Clerk
120 N. Fourth Street
Hennepin, IL 61327
Court records: 815-925-7016
Office hours: 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. weekdays, except holidays
The Sheriff FOIA page names Lynn A. Haage as FOIA officer. Call 815-925-7084 for FOIA questions from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. weekdays. Written requests may use 815-925-7015, fax 815-925-9266, or lhaage@putnamcountysheriff.com. The county says a standard form is not required, although an optional form is available. Describe the record and time period, request inspection or copies, and ask for the custodian, lawful redactions, and any fee authority when the web page does not provide the record.
- For a Granville, Hennepin, or Mark incident, start with the arresting city police agency or other agency named in the report. A city incident report and a county booking record may be held by different custodians.
- For Putnam County booking, custody, bond, release, transfer, or booking-photo questions, contact the Sheriff's Office and Putnam County Jail. The reviewed jail page does not provide a verified public current roster, so the FOIA route matters.
- For a disposition, bond hearing, dismissal, plea, sentence, or other court result, contact the Circuit Clerk or search the Putnam Judici case page. A court record is not a live custody result.
- For a person sentenced to Illinois state prison or placed on state parole, use the IDOC inmate search. IDOC custody is separate from a Putnam County pretrial booking or short local sentence.
- For a person sentenced to federal custody, use the Bureau of Prisons locator. BOP results do not serve as a county jail roster or a Putnam booking-photo source.
- For immigration detention, use the ICE Online Detainee Locator System. ICE custody is a separate status and is not proof of a criminal conviction.
- The Home page absorbs the county search, booking-record, roster, booking-feed, FOIA, and Illinois removal-law material. Most Wanted Fugitives absorbs warrant checking, so there are no separate facility, roster, feed, arrest-log, warrants, or removal pages to contact.