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 between September 23, 2026 and October 2, 2026.
Shasta County, California, has about 181,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Shasta County Sheriff's Office, two city agencies and six 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 Shasta. 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: Shasta County public records, California arrest records, California inmate search and California criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Shasta County
The Shasta County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Shasta County. It reported 1,084 arrests for 2025.
Arrests inside two of the county's cities are reported to the FBI by an agency of the city's own, listed here with the Census population and what each reported:
- Redding, 93,502 residents: 7,464 arrests reported for 2025.
- Anderson, 11,171 residents: 613 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 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 Each Agency Reports in Shasta 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.
- 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.
- Shasta County Sheriff's Office: 1,084 for 2025, 1,064 for 2024 and 715 for 2019; 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 are missing months.
- Anderson: 613 for 2025, 835 for 2024, 1,139 for 2023, 1,380 for 2022, 1,561 for 2020 and 1,921 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
Together, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 9,161 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 9,161 in 2025 against 10,915 in 2024, down 16 percent.
Through July 2026, the three agencies with every month so far on file reported 4,046 arrests, against 5,439 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Shasta County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Shasta 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 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 Shasta County
An arrest in Shasta County 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 Shasta County
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 Shasta County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Redding or Anderson: 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 Department of Forestry and Fire Protection's Northern Region, Union Pacific Railroad in Shasta County or the Shasta County Marshal: the records office of the agency involved.
- 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.
Cities in Shasta County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for two of the three cities in Shasta County: Redding and Anderson. Shasta Lake has no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list.
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 Shasta.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Shasta County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Redding (93,502)
- Anderson (11,171)
- Shasta Lake (10,244)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Shasta County each year?
Redding reported 7,464 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the three agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 9,161 between them.
Where are people arrested in Shasta County 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 Shasta County?
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 Shasta County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Shasta 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.
Is this the official Shasta 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.