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 October 2, 2026.
Anderson, California, in Shasta County, has about 11,000 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 District Attorney files charges, a case in the Superior Court of California, County of Shasta. 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: Anderson public records, Shasta County arrest records, California arrest records and California inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Anderson
The FBI lists Anderson with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Anderson Police Department. It reported 613 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 Shasta County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 1,084 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Shasta County: California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection's Northern Region (state agency); Union Pacific Railroad in Shasta County and the Shasta County Marshal (other); the Highway Patrol's Northern Division, the Highway Patrol's Northern Investigative Services Unit and the Highway Patrol's Redding Area Office (state police).
How Many Arrests Anderson 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.
- Anderson: 613 for 2025, 835 for 2024, 1,139 for 2023, 1,380 for 2022, 1,561 for 2020 and 1,921 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
Anderson's 613 arrests in 2025 were down 27 percent from 835 in 2024.
Through July 2026, Anderson reported 300 arrests, against 409 in the same months of 2025.
Across Shasta County, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 9,161 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Anderson Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Anderson 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 2025 the jail held about 400 people, down from about 430 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023, the last year with a capacity figure, was 484 beds, and it ran at 61 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 Shasta County Sheriff's Office at shastacounty.gov/sheriff/page/incustody (page title: In Custody | Shasta County CA), a site that blocks automated checks (HTTP 403), so open it in a browser.
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 person sentenced to prison serves the sentence in a facility of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, whose inmate locator is at cdcr.ca.gov/search.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Anderson
Whether someone was arrested in Anderson, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the custody page of the Shasta County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Superior Court of California, County of Shasta, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at shasta.courts.ca.gov/online-services/court-case-records).
California does not let the public search another person's statewide criminal history. The record kept by the California Department of Justice 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 Anderson
An arrest report belongs to the agency whose officer wrote it, and that agency releases it, not the court or the jail. Under the California Public Records Act the agency must answer within 10 days, with up to 14 more days in unusual circumstances, and it may charge the direct cost of copying only, not staff time.
- An arrest by the Anderson police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at ci.anderson.ca.us/departments/police/citizen_s_online_reporting.php (page title: Citizens Online Police Reporting System, Welcome to the Anderson Police Department s Citizen Online Police Rep), phone 530-378-6626, 1887 Howard Street Anderson, CA 96007, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
- An arrest by the Shasta County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Superior Court of California, County of Shasta, through the court records page at shasta.courts.ca.gov.
- Your own statewide record: a Record Review through Live Scan fingerprinting, form BCIA 8016RR, $25.
The Shasta County guide covers every agency in the county: Shasta County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Anderson each year?
Anderson reported 613 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
Where are people arrested in Anderson booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Shasta County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Anderson?
The court files of criminal cases in the Superior Court of California, County of Shasta are public and can be looked up through the court. The statewide criminal history kept by the California Department of Justice is not public; you can get your own for $25. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the California Public Records Act.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Anderson?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Anderson police for its own arrests, the Shasta County Sheriff's Office for the sheriff's. Under the California Public Records Act the answer is due within 10 days, with up to 14 more days in unusual circumstances.
Is this the official Anderson 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.