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.
Oro Valley, Arizona, in Pima County, has about 49,000 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 Pima 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: Oro Valley public records, Pima County arrest records, Arizona arrest records and Arizona inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Oro Valley
The FBI lists Oro Valley with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Oro Valley Police Department. It reported 848 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 Pima County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 7,853 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Pima County: the Tucson Airport Authority (other); the University of Arizona and Pima Community College (campus police).
How Many Arrests Oro 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.
- Oro Valley: 848 for 2025, 971 for 2024, 1,074 for 2023, 917 for 2022, 1,116 for 2021 and 903 for 2020.
Oro Valley's 848 arrests in 2025 were down 13 percent from 971 in 2024.
Through August 2026, Oro Valley reported 514 arrests, against 604 in the same months of 2025.
Across Pima County, the six agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 26,917 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Oro Valley Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Oro 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 2024 the jail held about 1,600 people, down from about 1,850 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2022, the last year with a capacity figure, was 613 beds, and it ran at 289 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 Pima County Sheriff's Office at sheriff.pima.gov/inmate (page title: Pima County Sheriff Department), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.
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 Oro Valley
For Oro Valley the place to look is the case index of the Pima County Superior Court, kept by the Clerk of the Superior Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date.
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at jp.pima.gov/CaseSearch (page title: Case Search), phone (520) 724-3171, belongs to a lower court, not to the Pima County Superior Court.
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 Oro 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 Oro Valley police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at orovalleyaz.gov/Government/Departments/Police/Records-Unit (page title: Records Unit | Oro Valley | it's in our nature), phone (520) 229-4937, Monday - Friday 8 am to 5 pm, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
- An arrest by the Pima County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- The court file of a case that was filed: in the Pima County Superior Court it is kept by the Clerk of the Superior Court. The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at jp.pima.gov/CaseSearch, phone (520) 724-3171, is a lower court's.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at sc.pima.gov (page title: Public Records Requests).
- Your own statewide record: a Record Review Packet, fingerprint-based, from the Department of Public Safety.
The Pima County guide covers every agency in the county: Pima County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Oro Valley each year?
Oro Valley reported 848 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Oro Valley?
Ask the Pima County Sheriff's Office; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at sheriff.pima.gov/inmate.
Where are people arrested in Oro Valley booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Pima County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Oro Valley?
The court files of criminal cases in the Pima 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 Oro Valley?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Oro Valley police for its own arrests, the Pima 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 sc.pima.gov.
Is this the official Oro 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.