On behalf of the 200 plus employees of the Sangamon County Sheriff’s Office, we welcome you to our website.
The Sangamon County Sheriff’s Office was founded on January 30, 1821, two hundred years later; we proudly serve the citizens of Illinois’ fifth-largest county that encompasses 870 square miles.
The Sangamon Sheriff’s Office, serves the public offering a Patrol Division, Investigations, Civil Process, Court Security, and a Jail with a rated capacity of 314 inmates.
The main goal of the Sangamon County Sheriff’s Office remains to provide the citizens of Sangamon County the finest and most professional law enforcement services available today, and to keep Sangamon County a safe place to work, play, and raise a family