Important disclosure: McDonough County Recent Arrests is privately owned and has no affiliation with McDonough County, any sheriff, jail, court, police department, corrections department, or other government body. Neither this service nor its advertising partners offers a consumer-reporting service covered by the Fair Credit Reporting Act. Information may not be used for credit, employment, insurance, or tenant screening. The site points adults toward arrest, custody, jail, and court resources in McDonough County, Illinois. It is neither a private investigation firm nor a consumer reporting agency.
The Website's Limited Role
This is a private reference website, not an official records custodian. It does not store sheriff, police, jail, court, Illinois Department of Corrections, or federal records. It cannot confirm that someone is in custody, release a person, alter a charge, file a court document, or provide an official copy.
The website organizes links to McDonough County and Illinois public resources and may connect visitors with independent research tools. Any custody answer, booking record, court filing, or disposition must be obtained and verified through the responsible agency.
Acceptable Use Rules
You agree to use the website lawfully and without harming people, systems, or other visitors. In particular, you must not:
- Break any applicable law while using the service
- Use information to stalk, harass, intimidate, or threaten anyone
- Base a hiring, housing, lending, or insurance decision on site content
- Try to enter accounts, servers, or restricted areas without authorization
- Operate bots, scrapers, or automated extraction tools against the site
- Interrupt, overload, damage, or degrade access for other visitors
No Consumer Reports Offered
McDonough County Recent Arrests is not a consumer reporting agency under the Fair Credit Reporting Act. It does not provide background checks, credit reports, or consumer reports, and neither it nor its advertising partners supplies screening services. You agree not to use site information for:
- Hiring, firing, promotion, or other employment decisions
- Rental, housing, or tenant-screening decisions
- Creditworthiness, lending, or insurance-rate decisions
- License, permit, benefit, or government-program eligibility
- Any other purpose regulated by the FCRA
Independent Websites and Services
Links may lead to jail and custody resources, municipal police, the McDonough County Sheriff's Office, Illinois VINE, Judici, Illinois Department of Corrections, government portals, legal-aid material, news outlets, and independent search services. A link does not endorse a destination. We do not control or accept responsibility for another site's content, accuracy, availability, security, or data practices. Review that provider's terms and privacy policy before using it.
Service Provided As Is
The website and all content are supplied "as is" and "as available," without express or implied warranties. We do not guarantee:
- That information is accurate, complete, or current
- That access will always be continuous or available
- That the service will be free from errors, bugs, or security flaws
- That a partner search will return every relevant result
Custody status and public records can change quickly. Nothing published here is an official statement from the McDonough County Sheriff's Office, McDonough County Jail, a police department, a court, or any government agency. Verify a claim with its originating office.
Limits on Liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, McDonough County Recent Arrests and its owners, operators, partners, and service providers will not be liable for direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, special, exemplary, or punitive damages arising from access to, inability to access, reliance on, or use of the website or a linked service.
Your Duty to Indemnify
You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless McDonough County Recent Arrests and its owners, operators, partners, and service providers from claims, losses, liabilities, costs, and reasonable legal fees caused by your use of the website, misuse of information, violation of another person's rights, or breach of these terms.
Ownership of Site Materials
Unless a source states otherwise, the site's original text, graphics, logos, arrangement, and code belong to McDonough County Recent Arrests or its content and technology partners. You may not copy, republish, distribute, sell, modify, or create derivative works from protected material without prior written permission. Government records and linked third-party materials remain subject to their own ownership and use rules.
Revisions to These Terms
We may update these Terms & Conditions at any time. Revised terms become effective when posted on this page. Continued use after publication of a revision constitutes acceptance of the updated terms.
Suspension or Termination
Access to all or part of the website may be restricted, suspended, or terminated at any time, for any reason, and without advance notice. This includes action needed to protect users, systems, legal rights, or service availability.
Illinois Law Applies
These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Illinois, without regard to conflict-of-law principles. Any dispute that may lawfully be brought must be filed in a court with proper jurisdiction in Illinois.
Severability of Terms
If a court finds one provision invalid or unenforceable, the remaining terms stay in effect. The affected provision will be limited or adjusted only to the extent needed to make it enforceable while preserving its intended purpose.
Questions About These Conditions
Questions about these terms may be sent through the Contacts page. That channel is not a government office and cannot provide custody confirmation, official records, or legal advice.