Contact for Kankakee County Records

Where Kankakee Records Are Held

Use the contact that matches the record stage. The Sheriff handles county booking and detention records, city police departments hold their own incident files, the Circuit Clerk holds court dispositions, and IDOC handles sentenced state custody. A county roster entry and a court case are related, but they are not the same record.

For a warrant question or a safety report, the Sheriff's investigations and warrant line is 815-802-7150 during business hours. KanComm and non-business-hours dispatch are listed at 815-933-3324. Emergencies belong at 911, not by email.

Electronic FOIA requests should place the full request in the email body. The Sheriff's current instructions say attachments and hyperlinks in email requests will not be processed. The agency generally has five business days to respond under Illinois FOIA, subject to a lawful extension and special timing rules. The first 50 black-and-white letter or legal copies are free, then additional black-and-white pages are 15 cents each. Ask for an electronic copy when that format fits the record.

For a practical starting point, match the question to one of these official routes:

• Current county custody or a recent booking: use the county search page and the public Tyler inmate search. The VINELink notification route is for eligible custody and release alerts, not a photo gallery.
• A county booking record or photo not shown by Tyler: send a focused request to the Sheriff's FOIA officer at foiakcso@kankakeecountyil.gov or use the current FOIA page. Include the full name, date or date range, booking or subject number if known, and arresting agency if known.
• A warrant or wanted-person question: start with the Most Wanted information and then use the Sheriff's investigations and warrant line. Do not rely on a repost to establish that a warrant remains active.
• A court case or disposition: use the Circuit Clerk and its Tyler Odyssey portal. The office maintains court records and posts weekday hours at 450 E. Court Street.
• A city police report: Kankakee Police is at 385 E. Oak Street and lists 815-933-3321 for non-emergency service. Its city FOIA page identifies Jeremy Shaul at 815-936-8217 and FOIA@citykankakee-il.gov. Bourbonnais Police is at 700 Main St. NW and lists 815-937-3579 for non-emergency service and 815-802-5330 for records, through its police page and village FOIA route. Bradley Police is at 147 S. Michigan Avenue and lists 815-936-5100; its records page lists records@bradleyil.org and foia@bradleyil.org, while the FOIA form identifies Deputy Clerk Khamseo (Kym) Nelson at 815-932-2125.
• A sentenced state prisoner: use the Illinois Department of Corrections Individual in Custody Search. IDOC custody is separate from a Jerome Combs or Kankakee County Detention Center booking.
• Federal or immigration custody: use the Bureau of Prisons locator for federal custody and the ICE Online Detainee Locator for immigration detention. Neither route is a county mugshot source.

The Daily Journal's crime and police-report sections and the Kankakee Times crime and courts section publish selected local reporting. They are useful for finding a story, but neither is a complete current-custody feed. Unofficial county listing pages can also be stale or omit the court disposition, so verify with the Sheriff and Circuit Clerk.

No public Kankakee schedule was found for how long digital booking photographs or released Tyler entries remain visible. For an older record, ask the Sheriff's FOIA officer for the approved retention schedule and any transfer or disposal authority. The Illinois State Archives Kankakee holdings search and the IRAD overview are historical research routes, not current mugshot galleries.