Hawthorne Arrest Records: Who Makes Arrests, Where People Are Booked and How to Get the Report

Who Makes Arrests in Hawthorne

The FBI lists Hawthorne with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Hawthorne Police Department. It reported 1,619 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 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 Hawthorne 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.

• Hawthorne: 1,619 for 2025, 1,751 for 2024, 1,706 for 2023, 2,143 for 2022, 2,477 for 2020 and 3,265 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.

Hawthorne's 1,619 arrests in 2025 were down 7.5 percent from 1,751 in 2024.

Through August 2026, Hawthorne reported 837 arrests, against 1,080 in the same months of 2025.

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 Hawthorne Are Held

A person kept in custody after an arrest in Hawthorne 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 Hawthorne

An arrest in Hawthorne 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 Hawthorne

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 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 Hawthorne police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at hawthornepolice.com/police-reports (page title: Police Reports | Hawthorne police), phone (310) 349-2700, Monday through Friday from 7:00 am to 5 pm, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 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 Hawthorne each year?

Hawthorne reported 1,619 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.

How do I find out if someone is in jail in Hawthorne?

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 Hawthorne 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 Hawthorne?

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 Hawthorne?

From the agency that made the arrest: the Hawthorne 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 Hawthorne 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.