Lawrence County Jail Mugshots Overview
The Lawrence County Sheriff's Department posts a booking photo for each person on its current-custody roster. The page is titled "Inmates Currently in Custody," so the safe claim is that mugshots appear for people in the jail right now, not for everyone ever booked. The photo is a single front-facing image embedded directly in the roster card, with no separate profile page and no side angle.
The sheriff does not run a standalone recent-bookings gallery, a daily booking-report file, or a mugshot archive. There is also no published statement about how long a photo stays online after release. The roster has a release-date field, but for people currently in custody that field stays blank, and once a person is no longer listed their card, including the photo, generally drops off the public page.
Where to Find Lawrence County Booking Photos
The one reliable place for a current Lawrence County booking photo is the sheriff's roster. If the photo is not online, a written records request to the sheriff is the fallback. The steps below cover both finding a current mugshot and requesting one that is no longer posted.
- Open the Lawrence County current inmates roster and confirm the "Inmates Currently in Custody" heading.
- Use your browser find tool to jump to the person's last name, since the page has no search box.
- Read the matching card to view the booking photo and the booking detail beside it.
- If the person is no longer listed, call the sheriff at (618) 943-1693 to ask whether the booking photo is available.
- If a formal request is needed, file a written Illinois FOIA request with the sheriff for the booking photograph and record.
The roster page below shows how a booking photo sits with the name, charges, and intake date on each entry.
The source is the Lawrence County Sheriff's current custody roster, the county's official inmate list with inline mugshots.
Because the page is updated by hand, a very recent booking photo may take a short time to appear, so the phone line is the backup when the roster has not caught up.
What a Lawrence County Booking Photo Shows
A booking photo on the roster never stands alone. It appears with a small set of booking and demographic fields, and it leaves out the more sensitive identifiers. The inventory below highlights the photo field and lists what shows next to it.
| Field | What It Shows |
|---|---|
| Booking Photo | One front-facing intake mugshot per current detainee; no side angle or prior-photo gallery. |
| Name and Age | The full name in last-name-first form, with the person's age. |
| Race / Sex | A combined code such as W/M or W/F. |
| Intake Date | The date and time the person was booked. |
| Charges and Bond | The booking charges with a bond value beside each one. |
The photo does not come with a height, weight, date of birth, street address, statute code, booking number, housing unit, or court date. Those details, when they are releasable, come through a records request rather than the public roster.
Are Lawrence County Jail Mugshots Public Record?
In Illinois, jail and arrest information held by a public body is generally open under the Freedom of Information Act, and a booking photo is part of that record. A separate FOIA section spells out the arrest details that must be made available, which supports public access to booking information. Access is not unlimited, though, since exemptions can protect juvenile records, active investigations, sealed or expunged matters, and certain personal data.
Key Statutes:
Illinois FOIA, 5 ILCS 140 - records held by Illinois public bodies, including jail booking records, are open for inspection unless an exemption applies.
Arrest reports, 5 ILCS 140/2.15 - certain arrest information, including charges, time, place, and the arresting agency, must be made available to the public.
Illinois does not have a specific state mugshot-removal statute aimed at commercial websites that was located in this research, so no such pay-to-remove law should be assumed. The realistic route to clearing a photo is through the records process described further down.
How Long a Lawrence County Mugshot Stays on the Roster
Because the roster lists current custody, a booking photo is tied to the stay rather than to a fixed timer. While a person is in the jail, the photo is visible. Once they are released, transferred, or sentenced to prison, their card and photo generally come off the public list. The sheriff does not publish a retention window or a historical photo archive, so there is no set number of days a mugshot stays up after release.
What is and isn't public: The public roster shows the current booking photo, name, age, race and sex, intake date, charges, and bond. It does not show date of birth, address, booking number, housing unit, court dates, or holds, and it keeps no public archive of past mugshots, which is why an older photo usually requires a records request.
How to Request a Lawrence County Booking Photo
When a booking photo is no longer on the roster, the way to get it is a written Illinois FOIA request to the Lawrence County Sheriff's Department at the jail address, 1306 Lexington Ave, Lawrenceville, IL 62439. Ask for the booking photograph and the booking or intake record, and identify the person by full name, the date of arrest or intake, a date of birth if you have one, and a case or warrant number if known.
No dedicated sheriff records-request form or published fee schedule was located in the official sources, so calling the corrections line at (618) 943-1693 first is wise to confirm where to send the request and what it may cost. For charges filed in court after the arrest, the circuit clerk and Judici are the right channel rather than the mugshot roster, which the court records after a jail arrest page explains.
Mugshot Removal and Sealed Records
If a case is dismissed, sealed, or expunged, the proper path to take a booking photo out of public view is through the court record, not a commercial removal service. Clearing the underlying record is what changes a photo's status, so the first step is to confirm the case outcome with the circuit clerk and the arresting agency. Sealing and expunging an arrest record are covered on the court records after a jail arrest page.
This research did not find a Lawrence County policy promising removal of a booking photo on request, so the site does not claim the sheriff will simply take one down. Anyone dealing with a third-party site that reposts mugshots should treat that as a separate matter from the official county roster, which is tied to current custody.
Booking Photos and the Lawrence County Warrant List
The sheriff publishes a current warrants list in addition to the inmate roster, and the two look very different. The warrant list is a searchable, sortable data table of names, ages, cities, case numbers, and charges, but it carries no booking photos. A person on the warrant list has not necessarily been booked, so there is no mugshot to show. A photo only appears once that person is actually taken into custody and lands on the current-custody roster.
That is the practical link between the two pages. An outstanding warrant can turn into a fresh booking, and at that point a booking photo joins the roster entry. Until then, the warrant list is a heads-up that a person is wanted, not a source of a mugshot. Anyone whose name is on the warrant list is told to call the circuit clerk to learn what is owed and how to clear it.
Juvenile and Sealed Booking Photos
Not every booking photo is public. Illinois treats juvenile law-enforcement and court records differently from adult cases, so booking photos of minors are not part of the public adult roster. Sealed and expunged matters also drop out of public view, which can remove the path to a photo entirely. Active investigations and certain personal details can be withheld as well under the state's public-records exemptions.
Because of these limits, the absence of a booking photo does not always mean one was never taken. It can mean the record is protected, sealed, or simply no longer posted because the person is out of custody. The records request route is the way to test whether a photo can still be released.
Federal and State Booking Photos
Federal custody works differently. The Bureau of Prisons and the U.S. Marshals Service do not publish booking photos in their public locators, so there is no federal mugshot to find the way there is on a county roster. A federal search confirms custody and basic identity, not a photo.
State prison is its own system. People sentenced to the Illinois Department of Corrections are found through the state inmate locator, which may show a prisoner photo in the profile. That is separate from the county jail roster, and it covers sentenced prisoners rather than people freshly booked after a local arrest. To match a person to the right system before hunting for a photo, the jail inmate records page lays out county, state, and federal custody side by side.