SearchSystems Editorial

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.

About this guide

San Bernardino County, California, has about 2.2 million residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Office, 24 city agencies and 20 campus, state or other agencies. 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 San Bernardino. 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: San Bernardino County public records, California arrest records, California inmate search and California criminal records.

Who Makes Arrests in San Bernardino County

The San Bernardino County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for San Bernardino County. It reported 10,411 arrests for 2022, its latest complete year.

The FBI lists 24 cities in San Bernardino County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported, the largest twelve first; the rest are named in the cities section below:

  • San Bernardino, 224,775 residents: 6,067 arrests reported for 2023.
  • Fontana, 218,455 residents: 5,353 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Ontario, 185,285 residents: 3,624 arrests reported for 2023.
  • Rancho Cucamonga, 176,675 residents: 4,866 arrests reported for 2022.
  • Victorville, 140,721 residents: 3,293 arrests reported for 2022.
  • Rialto, 104,918 residents: 3,434 arrests reported for 2023.
  • Hesperia, 101,836 residents: 2,156 arrests reported for 2022.
  • Chino, 94,010 residents: 2,913 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Upland, 79,684 residents: 2,219 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Chino Hills, 77,418 residents: 1,150 arrests reported for 2022.
  • Apple Valley, 75,029 residents: 2,131 arrests reported for 2022.
  • Redlands, 74,279 residents: 1,276 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 these agencies in San Bernardino County: California State University at San Bernardino, Chaffey College and San Bernardino Community College (campus police); the San Bernardino Unified School District, the Fontana Unified School District, the Victor Valley Union High School District, Union Pacific Railroad in San Bernardino County and one more (other); California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection at San Bernardino and Patton State Hospital (state agency); the Highway Patrol's Inland Division, the Highway Patrol's Inland Investigative Services Unit, the Highway Patrol's Barstow, Needles, Victorville, Rancho Cucamonga, San Bernardino, Arrowhead and Morongo Basin Area Offices and the Highway Patrol at Mountain Pass Port of Entry Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Facility (state police).

How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in San Bernardino 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.

  • Fontana: 5,353 for 2025, 4,294 for 2024, 4,407 for 2023, 6,663 for 2022, 6,027 for 2020 and 9,238 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
  • Chino: 2,913 for 2025, 2,859 for 2024, 3,246 for 2023, 3,273 for 2022, 4,545 for 2020 and 4,823 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
  • Upland: 2,219 for 2025, 2,432 for 2024, 1,911 for 2023, 1,942 for 2022, 2,335 for 2020 and 3,987 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
  • Colton: 1,785 for 2025, 1,008 for 2024, 779 for 2023, 830 for 2022, 928 for 2021 and 2,304 for 2020.
  • Barstow: 1,310 for 2025, 1,139 for 2024, 1,120 for 2023, 1,513 for 2022, 1,571 for 2020 and 1,796 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
  • Redlands: 1,276 for 2025, 1,815 for 2024, 1,613 for 2023, 1,497 for 2022, 3,009 for 2020 and 4,200 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
  • Montclair: 1,222 for 2025, 1,323 for 2024, 1,196 for 2023, 1,195 for 2022, 1,877 for 2020 and 2,109 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
  • San Bernardino County Sheriff's Office: 10,411 for 2022, 9,614 for 2020 and 14,316 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
  • San Bernardino: 6,067 for 2023, 6,866 for 2022, 9,294 for 2020 and 9,602 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
  • Rancho Cucamonga: 4,866 for 2022, 3,987 for 2020 and 5,578 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
  • Ontario: 3,624 for 2023, 5,301 for 2022, 7,527 for 2020 and 7,896 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
  • Rialto: 3,434 for 2023, 5,519 for 2022, 4,658 for 2020 and 3,979 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.

Together, the seven agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 16,078 arrests that year. The six of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 14,293 in 2025 against 13,862 in 2024, up 3.1 percent.

Through July 2026, the seven agencies with every month so far on file reported 10,226 arrests, against 9,369 in the same months of 2025.

San Bernardino reported only part of 2025 (7 months) and is left out of the totals.

Booking: Where People Arrested in San Bernardino County Are Held

A person kept in custody after an arrest in San Bernardino County 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 4,570 people, down from about 5,510 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023, the last year with a capacity figure, was 7,556 beds, and it ran at 60 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 San Bernardino County Sheriff's Office at jimsnetil.shr.sbcounty.gov/bookingsearch.aspx (page title: County of San Bernardino Inmate Locator), phone (213) 894-2485, 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 San Bernardino County

Whether someone was arrested in San Bernardino County, and what came of it, shows up in three places: the custody page of the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Superior Court of California, County of San Bernardino, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at sanbernardino.courts.ca.gov/online-services/case-information-documents); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at da.sbcounty.gov, phone (909) 382-3800).

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 San Bernardino 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 San Bernardino County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (213) 894-2485.
  • An arrest in San Bernardino, Fontana, Ontario, Rancho Cucamonga, Victorville, Rialto or another of the cities listed above: 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 California State University at San Bernardino, the San Bernardino Unified School District or Chaffey College: the records office of the agency involved.
  • A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, (909) 382-3800, handles discovery for pending cases.
  • The court file of a case that was filed: the Superior Court of California, County of San Bernardino, through the court records page at sanbernardino.courts.ca.gov.
  • Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at arc.sbcounty.gov/public-records-request (page title: Public Records Request | San Bernardino County Assessor).
  • Your own statewide record: a Record Review through Live Scan fingerprinting, form BCIA 8016RR, $25.

Cities in San Bernardino County: Who Reports the Arrests

The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for every one of the 24 cities in San Bernardino County: the twelve named above and Highland, Yucaipa, Colton, Adelanto, Montclair, Twentynine Palms, Loma Linda, Barstow, Yucca Valley, Grand Terrace, Big Bear Lake and Needles.

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 San Bernardino.

SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in San Bernardino County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:

Frequently Asked Questions

How many arrests are made in San Bernardino County each year?

Fontana reported 5,353 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the seven agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 16,078 between them.

How do I find out if someone is in jail in San Bernardino County?

Look on the custody page of the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Office at jimsnetil.shr.sbcounty.gov/bookingsearch.aspx, or call (213) 894-2485. It covers people booked into the county jail.

Where are people arrested in San Bernardino County booked?

Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.

Are arrest records public in San Bernardino County?

The court files of criminal cases in the Superior Court of California, County of San Bernardino 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 San Bernardino County?

From the agency that made the arrest: the San Bernardino 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 arc.sbcounty.gov/public-records-request.

Is this the official San Bernardino 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.