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.
Tehama County, California, has about 64,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Tehama County Sheriff's Office, two city agencies and four 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 Tehama. 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: Tehama County public records, California arrest records, California inmate search and California criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Tehama County
The Tehama County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Tehama County. It reported 310 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:
- Red Bluff, 14,286 residents: 1,035 arrests reported for 2025.
- Corning, 8,131 residents: 393 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 Tehama County: Union Pacific Railroad in Tehama County (other); California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection at Tehama-Glenn (state agency); the Highway Patrol's Red Bluff Area Office and the Highway Patrol at Cottonwood Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Facility (state police).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Tehama 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.
- Red Bluff: 1,035 for 2025, 946 for 2024, 953 for 2023, 846 for 2022, 1,205 for 2020 and 1,330 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
- Corning: 393 for 2025, 233 for 2024, 216 for 2023, 308 for 2022, 659 for 2020 and 1,144 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
- Tehama County Sheriff's Office: 310 for 2025, 423 for 2024, 592 for 2023, 426 for 2022, 613 for 2020 and 979 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
Together, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,738 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 1,738 in 2025 against 1,602 in 2024, up 8.5 percent.
Through August 2026, the three agencies with every month so far on file reported 1,142 arrests, against 1,148 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Tehama County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Tehama 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 110 people, down from about 180 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023, the last year with a capacity figure, was 191 beds, and it ran at 62 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
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 Tehama County
An arrest in Tehama County can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the case index of the Superior Court of California, County of Tehama, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at tehama.courts.ca.gov/online-services, phone (530) 527-3946); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at tehama.gov/government/departments/district-attorney, phone (530) 527-3053).
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 Tehama 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 Tehama County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Red Bluff or Corning: 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 Union Pacific Railroad in Tehama County, California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection at Tehama-Glenn or the Highway Patrol's Red Bluff 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) 527-3053, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Superior Court of California, County of Tehama, through the court records page at tehama.courts.ca.gov/online-services, phone (530) 527-3946.
- Your own statewide record: a Record Review through Live Scan fingerprinting, form BCIA 8016RR, $25.
Cities in Tehama County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for two of the three cities in Tehama County: Red Bluff and Corning. Tehama 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 Tehama.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Tehama County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Red Bluff (14,286)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Tehama County each year?
Red Bluff reported 1,035 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the three agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 1,738 between them.
Where are people arrested in Tehama County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Tehama County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Tehama County?
The court files of criminal cases in the Superior Court of California, County of Tehama 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 Tehama County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Tehama 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 Tehama 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.