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.
Sutter County, California, has about 99,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Sutter County Sheriff's Office, one city agency and two 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 Sutter. 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: Sutter County public records, California arrest records, California inmate search and California criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Sutter County
The Sutter County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Sutter County. It reported 1,018 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists one city in Sutter County with a reporting agency of its own:
- Yuba City, 69,148 residents: 2,837 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 Sutter County: Union Pacific Railroad in Sutter County (other); the Highway Patrol's Yuba-Sutter Area Office (state police).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Sutter 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.
- Yuba City: 2,837 for 2025, 2,616 for 2024, 2,567 for 2023, 2,475 for 2022, 3,065 for 2020 and 4,689 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
- Sutter County Sheriff's Office: 1,018 for 2025, 1,078 for 2024, 1,089 for 2023, 1,827 for 2022, 1,134 for 2020 and 1,613 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 3,855 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 3,855 in 2025 against 3,694 in 2024, up 4.4 percent.
Through July 2026, the two agencies with every month so far on file reported 2,383 arrests, against 2,243 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Sutter County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Sutter 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 210 people, down from about 220 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023, the last year with a capacity figure, was 394 beds, and it ran at 48 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 Sutter County Sheriff's Office at suttersheriff.gov/divisions/jail-division/corrections-section/inmat... (page title: Incarcerated Person Custody Status | Sutter County Sheriff, CA), 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 Sutter County
Whether someone was arrested in Sutter County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Superior Court of California, County of Sutter, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at sutter.courts.ca.gov/online-services/online-case-access); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at sutter.gov/government/county-departments/district-attorney, phone (530) 822-7330).
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 Sutter 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 Sutter County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Yuba City: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- An arrest by Union Pacific Railroad in Sutter County or the Highway Patrol's Yuba-Sutter Area Office: the records office of the agency involved.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, (530) 822-7330, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Superior Court of California, County of Sutter, through the court records page at sutter.courts.ca.gov.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at sutter.gov (page title: Public Records Act (PRA) Request | Sutter County, CA).
- Your own statewide record: a Record Review through Live Scan fingerprinting, form BCIA 8016RR, $25.
Cities in Sutter County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for one of the two cities in Sutter County: Yuba City. Live Oak 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 Sutter.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Sutter County each year?
Yuba City reported 2,837 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the two agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 3,855 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Sutter County?
Ask the Sutter County Sheriff's Office; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at suttersheriff.gov.
Where are people arrested in Sutter County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Sutter County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Sutter County?
The court files of criminal cases in the Superior Court of California, County of Sutter 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 Sutter County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Sutter 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 sutter.gov.
Is this the official Sutter 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.