Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones each agency reported to the FBI, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026. 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 on September 23, 2026.
Del Norte County, California, has about 27,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Del Norte County Sheriff's Office, one city agency and one state agency. An arrest 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 Del Norte. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it, with the arrest counts each agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies, cities and common questions.
Related guides: Del Norte County public records, California arrest records, California inmate search and California criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Del Norte County
The Del Norte County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Del Norte County. It reported 379 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists one city in Del Norte County with a reporting agency of its own:
- Crescent City, 6,209 residents: 475 arrests reported for 2025.
A city on that list is reported separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Del Norte County: the Highway Patrol's Crescent City Area Office (state police).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Del Norte County
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.
- Crescent City: 475 for 2025, 627 for 2024, 617 for 2023, 784 for 2022, 677 for 2020 and 1,114 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
- Del Norte County Sheriff's Office: 379 for 2025, 528 for 2022, 507 for 2020 and 658 for 2019; 2021, 2023 and 2024 are missing months.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 854 arrests that year. The one of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 475 in 2025 against 627 in 2024, down 24 percent.
Through July 2026, the two agencies with every month so far on file reported 487 arrests, against 479 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Del Norte County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Del Norte County 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 34 people, down from about 110 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2018, the last year with a capacity figure, was 107 beds, and it ran at 89 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the jail page of the Del Norte County Sheriff's Office at co.del-norte.ca.us/departments/sheriff (page title: County of Del Norte, California | Sheriff's Office), phone (707) 464-4191, 650 Fifth Street | Crescent City, CA 95531, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.
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 Del Norte County
Whether someone was arrested in Del Norte County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Superior Court of California, County of Del Norte, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at delnorte.courts.ca.gov/general-information/court-records, phone 707-464-8115); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at co.del-norte.ca.us/departments/DA, phone (707) 464-7210).
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 Del Norte County
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 Del Norte County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (707) 464-4191.
- An arrest in Crescent City: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
- An arrest by the Highway Patrol's Crescent City Area Office: the records office of the agency involved.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, (707) 464-7210, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Superior Court of California, County of Del Norte, through the court records page at delnorte.courts.ca.gov, phone 707-464-8115.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at co.del-norte.ca.us (page title: County of Del Norte, California | Public Records Request).
- Your own statewide record: a Record Review through Live Scan fingerprinting, form BCIA 8016RR, $25.
Cities in Del Norte County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for Crescent City, the one city in Del Norte County.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Superior Court of California, County of Del Norte.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Del Norte County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Crescent City (6,209)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Del Norte County each year?
Crescent City reported 475 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the two agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 854 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Del Norte County?
Ask the Del Norte County Sheriff's Office at (707) 464-4191; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at co.del-norte.ca.us/departments/sheriff.
Where are people arrested in Del Norte County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Del Norte County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Del Norte County?
The court files of criminal cases in the Superior Court of California, County of Del Norte 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 Del Norte County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Del Norte County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. 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 co.del-norte.ca.us.
Is this the official Del Norte County website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.