Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones the agency reported to the FBI, through 2025. 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 between September 23, 2026 and September 25, 2026.
Chino Valley, Arizona, in Yavapai County, has about 14,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and its arrests are reported to the FBI by an agency of its own. An arrest in the city leaves the same records whoever makes it: the arresting agency's report, the record of anyone held at the county jail, and, if the County Attorney files charges, a case in the Yavapai County Superior Court. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it, with the arrest counts the agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies and common questions.
Related guides: Chino Valley public records, Yavapai County arrest records, Arizona arrest records and Arizona inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Chino Valley
The FBI lists Chino Valley with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Chino Valley Police Department. It reported 259 arrests for 2025. A city is listed separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.
Outside the city, the Yavapai County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 2,291 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Yavapai County: Yavapai College (campus police).
How Many Arrests Chino Valley 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 8, 2026; a year with months missing or not reported is left out.
- Chino Valley: 259 for 2025, 285 for 2024, 320 for 2023, 293 for 2022, 193 for 2021 and 332 for 2020.
Chino Valley's 259 arrests in 2025 were down 9.1 percent from 285 in 2024.
Through July 2026, Chino Valley reported 159 arrests, against 130 in the same months of 2025.
Across Yavapai County, the eight agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 6,423 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Chino Valley Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Chino Valley 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 2023 the jail held about 530 people, up from about 510 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 644 beds, and it ran at 82 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the custody page of the Yavapai County Sheriff's Office at apps.yavapaiaz.gov/inmatesearch (page title: YCSO Inmate Search), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.
That page is the place to look for someone who was booked recently; a person cited and released at the scene, or held only a few hours by a city department, will not be on it.
A sentence of more than a year is served in state prison; the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry lists its inmates at corrections.az.gov/inmate-data-search.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Chino Valley
Whether someone was arrested in Chino Valley, and what came of it, shows up in three places: the custody page of the Yavapai County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Yavapai County Superior Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at courts.yavapaiaz.gov/Home/Top-Tasks/Case-Lookup); the County Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at yavapaiaz.gov/Resident-Services/Law-and-Justice/County-Attorney, phone (928) 771-3344).
Statewide, Public Access to Court Information is the Arizona Judicial Branch's free statewide case search; the Maricopa and Pima county courts run their own.
Arizona does not let the public search another person's statewide criminal history. The record kept by the Arizona Department of Public Safety goes to the person it belongs to and to employers and agencies the law authorizes; for everyone else the court's own case index is the public record of an arrest that led to a charge.
Getting a Copy of an Arrest Record in Chino Valley
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 Arizona Public Records Law the agency must answer promptly, with no fixed number of days in the statute, and it may charge the cost of copies, and more for commercial requests.
- An arrest by the Chino Valley police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at chinovalleyaz.gov/372/RecordsAccident-Reports (page title: Accident Reports | Chino Valley, AZ), phone 928-636-4223, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
- An arrest by the Yavapai County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the County Attorney, (928) 771-3344, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Yavapai County Superior Court, through the court records page at courts.yavapaiaz.gov.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at ycsoaz.gov (page title: Request Public Records YCSOAZ.gov).
- Your own statewide record: a Record Review Packet, fingerprint-based, from the Department of Public Safety.
The Yavapai County guide covers every agency in the county: Yavapai County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Chino Valley each year?
Chino Valley reported 259 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Chino Valley?
Look on the custody page of the Yavapai County Sheriff's Office at apps.yavapaiaz.gov/inmatesearch. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Chino Valley booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Yavapai County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Chino Valley?
The court files of criminal cases in the Yavapai County Superior Court are public and can be looked up through the court. The statewide criminal history kept by the Arizona Department of Public Safety is not public; you can get your own. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Arizona Public Records Law.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Chino Valley?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Chino Valley police for its own arrests, the Yavapai County Sheriff's Office for the sheriff's. Under the Arizona Public Records Law the answer is due promptly, with no fixed number of days in the statute; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at ycsoaz.gov.
Is this the official Chino Valley website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official city, county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.