Reviewed and updated October 7, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones one agency reported to the FBI, through 2025. Every office link was opened and checked against the office's own site on September 24, 2026.
Anchorage Municipality, Alaska, has about 290,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by one city agency. An arrest leaves the same records whoever makes it: the arresting agency's report, the booking at a facility of the Alaska Department of Corrections, and, if the District Attorney files charges, a case in the Alaska Superior Court. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it, with the arrest counts each agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies, cities and common questions.
Related guides: Anchorage Municipality public records, Alaska arrest records, Alaska inmate search and Alaska criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Anchorage Municipality
Alaska has no county sheriff with a patrol role. Arrests in Anchorage Municipality are made by the Alaska State Troopers or the city police, and in Alaska the police for a given address is the city police inside a city with its own department and the Alaska State Troopers elsewhere.
One city in Anchorage Municipality reports its arrests to the FBI separately:
- Anchorage, 289,600 residents: 9,424 arrests reported for 2025.
A city on that list is reported separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.
How Many Arrests Anchorage Reports
The FBI publishes every agency's monthly arrest counts on the Crime Data Explorer. These are the full-year totals, all offenses, as the FBI held them on October 7, 2026; a year with months missing or not reported is left out.
- Anchorage: 9,424 for 2025, 9,246 for 2024, 9,925 for 2023, 9,875 for 2022, 12,104 for 2020 and 14,452 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
That is up 1.9 percent from 9,246 in 2024.
Through March 2026, Anchorage reported 2,353 arrests, against 2,154 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Anchorage Municipality Are Held
Alaska has no municipality jails. A person held after an arrest in Anchorage Municipality is in the custody of the Alaska Department of Corrections, which runs every jail and prison in the state, so one inmate lookup covers the whole state.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Anchorage Municipality
For Anchorage Municipality the place to look is the case index of the Alaska Superior Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at courts.alaska.gov/main/search-cases.htm).
Statewide, CourtView is the Alaska Court System's free statewide case search.
Alaska is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: name-based conviction records are open to anyone who asks, through the Alaska Department of Public Safety. That record shows what agencies reported to the state, which is wider than one county's court index but can lag it.
Getting a Copy of an Arrest Record in Anchorage Municipality
The report of an arrest is released by the agency that made it; the jail and the court hold their own records of the same event, but not the report. Under the Alaska Public Records Act the agency must answer within 10 working days, and it may charge the actual cost of copying and search time.
- An arrest in Anchorage: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Alaska Superior Court, through its records page at courts.alaska.gov/main/search-cases.htm.
- Any municipality record that is not posted: the municipality records request page SearchSystems verified is at muni.org (page title: Office of Information Technology (OIT) Public Records Requests).
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based or name-based request to the Department of Public Safety.
Cities in Anchorage Municipality: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for every one of the one city in Anchorage Municipality: Anchorage.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Anchorage Municipality each year?
Anchorage reported 9,424 arrests to the FBI for 2025, the latest full year.
Where are people arrested in Anchorage Municipality booked?
In a facility of the Alaska Department of Corrections, which runs every jail in Alaska.
Are arrest records public in Anchorage Municipality?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Alaska Department of Public Safety: name-based conviction records are open to anyone who asks. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Alaska Public Records Act.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Anchorage Municipality?
From the agency that made the arrest: which in Alaska is the Alaska State Troopers or the city police. Under the Alaska Public Records Act the answer is due within 10 working days; the municipality records request page SearchSystems verified is at muni.org.
Is this the official Anchorage Municipality website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official municipality, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.