Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones each agency reported to the FBI, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026. The jail figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data. Every office link was opened and checked against the office's own site on September 24, 2026.
Calhoun County, Arkansas, has about 4,700 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Calhoun County Sheriff's Office and one city agency. An arrest leaves the same records whoever makes it: the arresting agency's report, the record of anyone held at the county jail, and, if the Prosecuting Attorney files charges, a case in the Calhoun County Circuit 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: Calhoun County public records, Arkansas arrest records, Arkansas inmate search and Arkansas criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Calhoun County
The Calhoun County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Calhoun County. It reported 73 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists one city in Calhoun County with a reporting agency of its own:
- Hampton, 1,157 residents: 9 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 Each Agency Reports in Calhoun County
Each agency reports its arrests to the FBI by month, and the FBI publishes them on the Crime Data Explorer. These are the full-year totals, all offenses, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026; a year with months missing or not reported is left out.
- Calhoun County Sheriff's Office: 73 for 2025, 96 for 2023, 100 for 2022, 69 for 2021, 77 for 2020 and 84 for 2019; 2024 is missing months.
- Hampton: 9 for 2025, 19 for 2024, 21 for 2023, 9 for 2022, 9 for 2021 and 29 for 2020.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 82 arrests that year. The one of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 9 in 2025 against 19 in 2024.
Through March 2026, the two agencies with every month so far on file reported 21 arrests, against 13 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Calhoun County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Calhoun County and kept in custody ends up, whichever agency made the arrest, though a city department may hold someone in its own cells first and a person cited and released at the scene is never booked. The jail's record of each person held, with the charges, is a public record of the arrest, and once the person is released or sentenced the record continues in the court file.
On an average day in 2019 the jail held about 12 people. Its rated capacity in 2019 was 25 beds, and it ran at 48 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
A person sentenced to prison serves the sentence in a facility of the Arkansas Division of Correction, whose inmate locator is at doc.arkansas.gov/correction/online-services.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Calhoun County
An arrest in Calhoun County can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the case index of the Calhoun County Circuit Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at caseinfo.arcourts.gov/opad); the Prosecuting Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at arkprosecutor13.com/staff.php, phone 870-864-1960).
Statewide, CourtConnect is the Arkansas Judiciary's free statewide case search.
Arkansas is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: the state runs an online name-based background check open to the public, through the Arkansas State Police. 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 Calhoun County
An arrest report belongs to the agency whose officer wrote it, and that agency releases it, not the court or the jail. Under the Arkansas Freedom of Information Act the agency must answer within 3 working days when the record is not immediately available, and it may charge the actual cost of copying.
- An arrest by the Calhoun County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Hampton: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the Prosecuting Attorney, 870-864-1960, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Calhoun County Circuit Court, through the court records page at caseinfo.arcourts.gov/opad.
- Your own statewide record: a request to the Arkansas State Police Identification Bureau.
Cities in Calhoun County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for one of the four cities in Calhoun County: Hampton. Thornton, Harrell and Tinsman have no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Calhoun County Circuit Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Calhoun County each year?
The Calhoun County Sheriff's Office reported 73 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the two agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 82 between them.
Where are people arrested in Calhoun County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Calhoun County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Calhoun County?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Arkansas State Police: the state runs an online name-based background check open to the public. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Arkansas Freedom of Information Act.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Calhoun County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Calhoun County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. Under the Arkansas Freedom of Information Act the answer is due within 3 working days when the record is not immediately available.
Is this the official Calhoun County website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.