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Illinois arrest records are in the public domain and therefore anyone is entitled to have access to them. Today actually obtaining copies of these records is fairly easy and in some cases are available to be had free of charge. Although you may find with some companies who will carry out searches for you of arrest records they do charge a nominal fee for this type of service.

The Illinois State Police hold criminal history information on particular individuals and if you would like to see sight of this you will need to pay a fee of $16.00 in order to do so. Whereas the Circuit Court in Jackson County will allow you access to their database and this will cost you $12.95 for each search that you carry out.

In general most of the law enforcement agencies are the ones who are required to maintain the databases that these records are held on. They will then share this information with the courts and in some cases with certain individuals who have requested a person?s public arrest records.

The information which is held on these databases should be either updated on a daily, monthly or quarterly basis by the person charged with doing so. So just how good the arrest records information is will depend upon how well maintained and updated the database is.

When it comes to Illinois criminal records statistics in recent years their rate has been above the national one. Yet even though this is shown the state has seen a decrease in the number of arrests being made. In 1990 the arrests made per 100,000 of the population was 1,237 but by 2002 this figure has dropped to 894 arrests for 100,000 of the population. This has meant that there has been a decrease of 28% during this 12 year period of arrests being made.

Yet even though for the whole of the State of Illinois the arrest figures have been reduced between 1990 and 2002 there were some counties where they had substantial increases. Of the 102 counties which make up this state 43 of them were shown to have a large increase in their arrest rate records. Whilst of the rest of the counties 42 saw no differences and 17 of them had a notable reduction in the number of arrests that were made.

However, when you look more closely at the Criminal Records Illinois for the period between 1995 and 2002 of the original 43 that had increases only 8 now were left showing increases. Plus a further closer inspection and you will find that 7 of these 8 are in fact rural counties.

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