1. Start at the jail list and enter the last name.
2. Use VINELink, or the VINELink app for iPhone or the VINELink app for Android.
3. Ask the Lee County Sheriff's Office directly at 815-284-5217.

Illinois treats adult booking photos as public (5 ILCS 140/2.15). Send an Illinois Freedom of Information Act request to the Lee County Sheriff's Office (815-284-5217). Juvenile photos are not released. Most U.S. Marshals Service photos stay private too, under 5 U.S.C. 552. ICE records for someone held by the Sheriff's Office go through the ICE FOIA request page and name the county.

The U.S. Marshals Service may hold federal defendants in county jails nearby. Hearings take place in Rockford, at Stanley J. Roszkowski U.S. Courthouse, 327 S. Church Street, Rockford, IL 61101; the Northern District of Illinois clerk is at 815-987-4355. Check VINELink while the case is open, and the Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate locator after sentencing.

Search empty? Call each county jail next door:

• Bureau County Jail, Princeton: 815-875-3344
• DeKalb County Jail, Sycamore: 815-895-4177
• LaSalle County Jail, Ottawa: 815-434-8383
• Ogle County Jail, Oregon: 815-732-2135
• Whiteside County Jail, Morrison: 815-772-5203

State prisoners show on the Illinois Department of Corrections inmate search; federal ones on the Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate locator.

Youth stay off the roster (705 ILCS 405/1-7). A judge locally picks the juvenile detention center for detained youth. Call 815-284-5217 to learn about a detained child's hearing.

Illinois ended cash bail in 2023 under the Pretrial Fairness Act, so there's no money to post in Lee County (725 ILCS 5/110). Within 48 hours, a judge rules on release (725 ILCS 5/109-1). More on our pretrial release guide.

• Calls: see our phone page.
• Deposits: our money guide.
• Snacks and supplies: Local commissary page.
• Visits: Local visitation rules.
• Mail: Local inmate mail rules.
• Email: our messaging page.

Someone given prison leaves the county jail for Illinois Department of Corrections intake. For moves, use the Illinois Department of Corrections inmate search; see our Illinois state prisons guide.

1. ICE can ask Lee County to hold someone with a Form I-247A.
2. The Illinois TRUST Act (5 ILCS 805/15) stops this county from honoring the 48-hour hold.
3. Agents may wait outside the County Jail.
4. After an ICE arrest, use the ICE Online Detainee Locator System with the A-number of the detainee.

This county has about 32,914 residents (U.S. Census Bureau Vintage 2025 estimate, released 2026). Dixon, IL is the county seat.

If an officer from Dixon or another town made the arrest, call:

• Dixon Police: 815-288-4411
• Amboy: no listed number here yet; the sheriff's office, 815-284-5217, can direct you