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.
Redding, California, in Shasta County, has about 94,000 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: Redding public records, Shasta County arrest records, California arrest records and California inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Redding
The FBI lists Redding with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Redding Police Department. It reported 7,464 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 Redding 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.
- Redding: 7,464 for 2025, 9,016 for 2024, 6,619 for 2023, 10,720 for 2022, 10,725 for 2020 and 9,509 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
Redding's 7,464 arrests in 2025 were down 17 percent from 9,016 in 2024.
Through August 2026, Redding reported 3,357 arrests, against 4,987 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 Redding Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Redding 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 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 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 Redding
An arrest in Redding can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: 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 Redding
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 Redding police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at cityofredding.justfoia.com/publicportal/home/newrequest (page title: Redding, CA Public Portal | JustFOIA), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on October 1, 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 Redding each year?
Redding reported 7,464 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
Where are people arrested in Redding 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 Redding?
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 Redding?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Redding 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 Redding 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.