SearchSystems Editorial

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 23, 2026.

About this guide

Yavapai County, Arizona, has about 252,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Yavapai County Sheriff's Office, eight city agencies and one campus 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 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 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: Yavapai County public records, Arizona arrest records, Arizona inmate search and Arizona criminal records.

Who Makes Arrests in Yavapai County

The Yavapai County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Yavapai County. It reported 2,291 arrests for 2025.

Arrests inside eight of the county's cities are reported to the FBI by an agency of the city's own, listed here with the Census population and what each reported:

  • Prescott Valley, 51,440 residents: 1,188 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Prescott, 48,224 residents: 1,355 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Chino Valley, 13,911 residents: 259 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Cottonwood, 12,939 residents: 722 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Camp Verde, 12,608 residents: 481 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Sedona, 9,778 residents: 223 arrests reported for 2024.
  • Clarkdale, 4,951 residents: 84 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Jerome, 457 residents: 43 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.

The Wickenburg Police Department is listed by the FBI across two counties including Yavapai County, so its arrests are not broken out for Yavapai County here.

The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Yavapai County: Yavapai College (campus police).

How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Yavapai County

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.

  • Yavapai County Sheriff's Office: 2,291 for 2025, 2,007 for 2024, 1,696 for 2023, 1,757 for 2022, 2,052 for 2021 and 3,208 for 2020.
  • Prescott: 1,355 for 2025, 1,178 for 2024, 1,286 for 2023, 1,190 for 2022, 1,133 for 2021 and 1,871 for 2020.
  • Prescott Valley: 1,188 for 2025, 1,227 for 2024, 1,354 for 2023, 1,362 for 2022, 1,349 for 2021 and 2,657 for 2019; 2020 is missing months.
  • Cottonwood: 722 for 2025, 675 for 2024, 865 for 2023, 916 for 2022, 993 for 2020 and 856 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
  • Camp Verde: 481 for 2025, 440 for 2024, 334 for 2023, 317 for 2022, 285 for 2021 and 523 for 2020.
  • Chino Valley: 259 for 2025, 285 for 2024, 320 for 2023, 293 for 2022, 193 for 2021 and 332 for 2020.
  • Clarkdale: 84 for 2025, 69 for 2023, 77 for 2022, 103 for 2021, 107 for 2020 and 165 for 2019; 2024 is missing months.
  • Jerome: 43 for 2025, 67 for 2024, 76 for 2023, 62 for 2022, 82 for 2020 and 66 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
  • Sedona: 223 for 2024 and 287 for 2022; 2023 is missing months.

Together, the eight agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 6,423 arrests that year. The seven of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 6,339 in 2025 against 5,879 in 2024, up 7.8 percent.

Through July 2026, the six agencies with every month so far on file reported 2,021 arrests, against 2,011 in the same months of 2025.

Sedona reported only part of 2025 (8 months) and is left out of the totals.

Booking: Where People Arrested in Yavapai County Are Held

A person kept in custody after an arrest in Yavapai County is held at the county jail, whichever agency made the arrest, apart from the short stay some city departments' own holding cells allow; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked at all. The jail's record of each person held, with the charges, is a public record of the arrest, and the court file takes over from there.

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 Yavapai County

An arrest in Yavapai County can be traced in three places, depending on where the case stands: 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 Yavapai County

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 Yavapai County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
  • An arrest in Prescott Valley, Prescott, Chino Valley, Cottonwood, Camp Verde, Sedona or another of the cities listed above: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
  • An arrest by Yavapai College: the records office of the agency involved.
  • 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.

Cities in Yavapai County: Who Reports the Arrests

The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for eight of the nine cities in Yavapai County: Prescott Valley, Prescott, Chino Valley, Cottonwood, Camp Verde, Sedona, Clarkdale and Jerome. Dewey-Humboldt has 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 Yavapai County Superior Court.

SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Yavapai County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:

Frequently Asked Questions

How many arrests are made in Yavapai County each year?

The Yavapai County Sheriff's Office reported 2,291 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the eight agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 6,423 between them.

How do I find out if someone is in jail in Yavapai County?

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 Yavapai County 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 Yavapai County?

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 Yavapai County?

From the agency that made the arrest: the Yavapai County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. 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 Yavapai 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.