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 2023. 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 26, 2026.
Hawaiian Gardens, California, in Los Angeles County, has about 13,000 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 Los Angeles. 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: Hawaiian Gardens public records, Los Angeles County arrest records, California arrest records and California inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Hawaiian Gardens
The FBI lists Hawaiian Gardens with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Hawaiian Gardens Police Department. It reported 218 arrests for 2023, its latest complete year. 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 Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 18,434 arrests for 2023.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Los Angeles County: the Highway Patrol's Central Los Angeles, Baldwin Park, South Los Angeles, East Los Angeles, Newhall, Antelope Valley, Santa Fe Springs, West Los Angeles, Altadena and West Valley Area Offices, the Highway Patrol's Southern Division, the Highway Patrol's Southern Investigative Services Unit, the Highway Patrol at Castaic Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Facility and one more (state police); El Camino College, Pasadena Community College, California State Polytechnic University at Pomona, California State University at Dominguez Hills and six more (campus police); Union Pacific Railroad in Los Angeles County, the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the Baldwin Park Unified School District, the Los Angeles Transportation Services Bureau and one more (other); the Metropolitan State Hospital (state agency).
How Many Arrests Hawaiian Gardens 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.
- Hawaiian Gardens: 218 for 2023, 348 for 2022, 534 for 2020 and 756 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
Hawaiian Gardens's 218 arrests in 2023 were down 37 percent from 348 in 2022.
Across Los Angeles County, the 47 agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 111,326 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Hawaiian Gardens Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Hawaiian Gardens 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 12,780 people, down from about 16,890 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023, the last year with a capacity figure, was 20,965 beds, and it ran at 62 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 Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office at locator.lacounty.gov/lac/Location/3069210/los-angeles-county-sherif... (page title: Los Angeles County Sheriff | Inmate Reception Center), phone (213) 473-6100, 450 Bauchet St. Los Angeles CA 90012, 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 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 Hawaiian Gardens
An arrest in Hawaiian Gardens can be traced in three places, depending on where the case stands: the custody page of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at lacourt.ca.gov/pages/lp/access-a-case/tp/re-acc-search-for-case-by-...); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at da.lacounty.gov).
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 Hawaiian Gardens
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 Hawaiian Gardens police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at hgcity.org/government/departments/public-safety (page title: Public Safety | Hawaiian Gardens, CA), phone (562) 496-1026, Mon-Fri 9 a.m. - 5 p.m., which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (213) 473-6100.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles, through the court records page at lacourt.ca.gov.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at lacounty.gov (page title: Public Records Request | COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES).
- Your own statewide record: a Record Review through Live Scan fingerprinting, form BCIA 8016RR, $25.
The Los Angeles County guide covers every agency in the county: Los Angeles County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Hawaiian Gardens each year?
Hawaiian Gardens reported 218 arrests to the FBI for 2023, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Hawaiian Gardens?
Look on the custody page of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office at locator.lacounty.gov, or call (213) 473-6100. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Hawaiian Gardens booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Hawaiian Gardens?
The court files of criminal cases in the Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles 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 Hawaiian Gardens?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Hawaiian Gardens police for its own arrests, the Los Angeles 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 lacounty.gov.
Is this the official Hawaiian Gardens 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.