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

Who Makes Arrests in Manhattan Beach

The FBI lists Manhattan Beach with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Manhattan Beach Police Department. It reported 589 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 Manhattan Beach 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.

• Manhattan Beach: 589 for 2025, 673 for 2024, 710 for 2023, 730 for 2022, 750 for 2020 and 1,201 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.

Manhattan Beach's 589 arrests in 2025 were down 12 percent from 673 in 2024.

Through August 2026, Manhattan Beach reported 432 arrests, against 395 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 Manhattan Beach Are Held

The county jail is where a person arrested in Manhattan Beach 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 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 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 Manhattan Beach

Whether someone was arrested in Manhattan Beach, and what came of it, shows up in three places: 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 Manhattan Beach

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 Manhattan Beach police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at manhattanbeach.gov/Home/Components/ServiceDirectory/ServiceDirector... (page title: Police Records | Contact Police | City of Manhattan Beach), phone (310) 545-4566, 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 Manhattan Beach each year?

Manhattan Beach reported 589 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.

How do I find out if someone is in jail in Manhattan Beach?

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 Manhattan Beach 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 Manhattan Beach?

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 Manhattan Beach?

From the agency that made the arrest: the Manhattan Beach 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 Manhattan Beach 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.