Lee County Busted Mugshots is a private reference site, not a government office. It cannot confirm someone's custody, confirm a release or transfer, post bond, or pull an official booking record. For a definitive answer, use the agency that holds the record and verify its current routing before traveling or sending a request.
Lee County Jail and Sheriff Routing
For a current county-custody question, begin with the official Lee County Jail page. It links the Current Inmate List and the seven-day News Media arrest summary. The live inmate PDF is a current-custody snapshot with names and booking numbers, not a photo roster. The arrest summary supplies more event fields, but it also does not display booking photographs.
Lee County Sheriff's Office and Lee County Jail240 East Progress Drive
Dixon, IL 61021
Business office: 815-284-5217, Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Central Time. Jail line: 815-284-5222. The administration page also shows jail routing through the business office, extension 2, so confirm the live line before calling. Dispatch and non-emergency: 815-284-6631, listed by the county as a 24/7 number. Emergency: 911.
The jail does not provide court dates. For a hearing, case, or disposition, use the Circuit Clerk information below rather than asking the jail to interpret a court docket.
Choose the Record Holder
The right destination depends on the custody state and on whether the question concerns intake, current custody, a court case, or a later state or federal placement. These official paths keep those records separate.
- Current county custody: open the Lee County Jail page and its Current Inmate List. Search the PDF by name or booking number. A missing name can reflect release or transfer, not proof that no arrest occurred.
- Recent county arrest activity: read the News Media report for the last seven days. It includes arrest time and date, booking number, name, arresting agency, location, offense, bond, court, and status fields when present. No separate same-day public page was identified in the county source sweep.
- Booking record or photograph request: use the Lee County FOIA Request Form and send it to the department FOIA officer by the method listed on the form. Give the full name, booking number, approximate date, and the specific records sought. Ask for a photograph only if available and releasable. The form states a five-working-day response period and includes the lawful extension, denial, and fee process. Illinois FOIA Section 2.15 addresses arrest information, while Section 6 governs copying fees.
- Court case and disposition: contact the Lee County Circuit Clerk at 309 South Galena Avenue, Suite 320, Dixon, 815-284-5234. The clerk page points to Full Court Enterprise, and the Clerk of Courts Records Inquiry offers name, date-range, hearing, and case-type searches. Recent entries may lag, so confirm a missing result with the clerk.
- City-police material: Dixon Police uses its monthly Police Blotter library and a police records FOIA route at 220 South Hennepin Avenue, 815-288-4411. Amboy directs FOIA requests to the City Clerk at 227 East Main Street or cityofamboy@comcast.net, with police non-emergency at 815-857-3400. Ashton identifies its village clerk at 810 Main Street, 815-453-2241, and says the sheriff provides 20 hours of public-safety service each week, so sheriff-held material should also be requested from Lee County.
- State custody or parole: use the Illinois Department of Corrections Individual in Custody Search. IDOC is for the state-sentenced or parole population, not a person awaiting trial or recently released from the county jail. Completed-sentence records may require the IDOC Record Search contact route.
- Federal or immigration custody: use the Bureau of Prisons locator for federal inmates and the ICE Online Detainee Locator for people in immigration custody. Neither is a Lee County jail roster, and neither public locator is a booking-photo source.