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 30, 2026.
Citrus Heights, California, in Sacramento County, has about 87,000 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 Sacramento. 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: Citrus Heights public records, Sacramento County arrest records, California arrest records and California inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Citrus Heights
The FBI lists Citrus Heights with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Citrus Heights Police Department. It reported 2,483 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 Sacramento County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 9,933 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Sacramento County: the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection at Office of State Fire Marshal, California State Parks at Capital, California State Parks at Gold Fields, California State Fair and one more (state agency); Union Pacific Railroad in Sacramento County and the Twin Rivers Unified School District (other); Los Rios Community College, the University of California at Medical Center, Sacramento and California State University at Sacramento (campus police); the Highway Patrol in Sacramento County, the Highway Patrol's Valley Division, the Highway Patrol at Office of Internal Affairs, the Highway Patrol at Governor's Protective Detail Section and seven more (state police).
How Many Arrests Citrus Heights 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.
- Citrus Heights: 2,483 for 2025, 2,385 for 2024, 1,455 for 2023, 1,135 for 2022, 2,458 for 2020 and 2,954 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
Citrus Heights's 2,483 arrests in 2025 were up 4.1 percent from 2,385 in 2024.
Through August 2026, Citrus Heights reported 1,486 arrests, against 1,604 in the same months of 2025.
Across Sacramento County, the eight agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 33,596 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Citrus Heights Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Citrus Heights 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 2025 the jail held about 3,290 people, down from about 3,670 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023, the last year with a capacity figure, was 3,695 beds, and it ran at 84 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
A sentence of more than a year is served in state prison; the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation lists its inmates at cdcr.ca.gov/search.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Citrus Heights
Whether someone was arrested in Citrus Heights, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Superior Court of California, County of Sacramento, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at saccourt.ca.gov/online-services/case-search); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at sacda.org, phone 916.874.6218).
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 Citrus Heights
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 Citrus Heights police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at citrusheights.net/341/Records-Unit (page title: Records Unit | Citrus Heights, CA), phone 916-727-5500, Monday through Friday, 8:00 am - 4:00 pm, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
- An arrest by the Sacramento County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 916.874.6218, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Superior Court of California, County of Sacramento, through the court records page at saccourt.ca.gov/online-services/case-search.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at saccounty.nextrequest.com (page title: Open Public RecordsNextRequest | Modern FOIA & Public Records Request Software).
- Your own statewide record: a Record Review through Live Scan fingerprinting, form BCIA 8016RR, $25.
The Sacramento County guide covers every agency in the county: Sacramento County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Citrus Heights each year?
Citrus Heights reported 2,483 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
Where are people arrested in Citrus Heights booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Sacramento County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Citrus Heights?
The court files of criminal cases in the Superior Court of California, County of Sacramento 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 Citrus Heights?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Citrus Heights police for its own arrests, the Sacramento 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; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at saccounty.nextrequest.com.
Is this the official Citrus Heights 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.