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 25, 2026 and October 1, 2026.
Flagstaff, Arizona, in Coconino County, has about 78,000 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 Coconino 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: Flagstaff public records, Coconino County arrest records, Arizona arrest records and Arizona inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Flagstaff
The FBI lists Flagstaff with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Flagstaff Police Department. It reported 4,758 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 Coconino County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 910 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Coconino County: Northern Arizona University (campus police).
How Many Arrests Flagstaff Reports
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.
- Flagstaff: 4,758 for 2025, 4,682 for 2024, 3,675 for 2023, 3,229 for 2022, 3,707 for 2021 and 7,199 for 2019; 2020 is missing months.
Flagstaff's 4,758 arrests in 2025 were up 1.6 percent from 4,682 in 2024.
Across Coconino County, the five agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 6,868 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Flagstaff Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Flagstaff 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 310 people, down from about 540 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 596 beds, and it ran at 52 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the jail page of the Coconino County Sheriff's Office at coconino.az.gov/325/Sheriff (page title: Coconino County Sheriff's Office | Coconino), phone 928-774-4523, a site that blocks automated checks (HTTP 403), so open it in a browser.
A person sentenced to prison serves the sentence in a facility of the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, whose inmate locator is at corrections.az.gov/inmate-data-search.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Flagstaff
For Flagstaff the place to look is Public Access to Court Information, the Arizona Judicial Branch's free statewide case search; the Maricopa and Pima county courts run their own, which shows whether charges were filed.
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 Flagstaff
An arrest report belongs to the agency whose officer wrote it, and that agency releases it, not the court or the jail. 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 Flagstaff police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at flagstaff.az.gov/3594/Records (page title: Records | City of Flagstaff Official Website), phone (928) 214-2530, 911 E Sawmill Road Flagstaff, AZ 86001, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
- An arrest by the Coconino County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 928-774-4523.
- Your own statewide record: a Record Review Packet, fingerprint-based, from the Department of Public Safety.
The Coconino County guide covers every agency in the county: Coconino County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Flagstaff each year?
Flagstaff reported 4,758 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
Where are people arrested in Flagstaff booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Coconino County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Flagstaff?
The court files of criminal cases in the Coconino 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 Flagstaff?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Flagstaff police for its own arrests, the Coconino 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.
Is this the official Flagstaff 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.