Yolo County Arrest Records: Who Makes Arrests, Where People Are Booked and How to Get the Report

Who Makes Arrests in Yolo County

The Yolo County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Yolo County. It reported 954 arrests for 2022, its latest complete year.

Arrests inside four 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:

• Davis, 67,125 residents: 1,076 arrests reported for 2025.
• Woodland, 62,983 residents: 1,730 arrests reported for 2025.
• West Sacramento, 55,991 residents: 884 arrests reported for 2025.
• Winters, 7,825 residents: 125 arrests reported for 2023.

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 Yolo County: the Highway Patrol's Woodland Area Office (state police); Union Pacific Railroad in Yolo County (other); the University of California at Davis (campus police).

How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Yolo County

Each agency reports its arrests to the FBI by month, and the FBI publishes them 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.

• Woodland: 1,730 for 2025, 1,606 for 2024, 1,374 for 2023, 1,635 for 2022 and 2,520 for 2019; 2020 and 2021 are missing months.
• Davis: 1,076 for 2025, 1,067 for 2024, 833 for 2023, 715 for 2022, 810 for 2020 and 1,208 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
• West Sacramento: 884 for 2025, 493 for 2024, 371 for 2023, 1,725 for 2020 and 2,766 for 2019; 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
• Yolo County Sheriff's Office: 954 for 2022, 1,644 for 2020 and 2,104 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
• Winters: 125 for 2023, 247 for 2022, 98 for 2020 and 148 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.

Together, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 3,690 arrests that year. The two of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 2,806 in 2025 against 2,673 in 2024, up 5 percent.

Through March 2026, the three agencies with every month so far on file reported 849 arrests, against 895 in the same months of 2025.

Booking: Where People Arrested in Yolo County Are Held

A person kept in custody after an arrest in Yolo 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 270 people, down from about 330 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2018, the last year with a capacity figure, was 452 beds, and it ran at 77 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 Yolo County Sheriff's Office at yolocountysheriff.com/organization/jail (page title: Detention Services | Yolo County Sheriff’s Office), phone 877-411-5588, 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 Yolo County

Whether someone was arrested in Yolo County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Superior Court of California, County of Yolo, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at yolo.courts.ca.gov); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at ace.yolocounty.gov/BusinessDirectoryII.aspx?BID=61, phone 530-666-8180).

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 Yolo 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 Yolo County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 877-411-5588.
• An arrest in Davis, Woodland, West Sacramento or Winters: 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 Woodland Area Office, Union Pacific Railroad in Yolo County or the University of California at Davis: the records office of the agency involved.
• A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 530-666-8180, handles discovery for pending cases.
• The court file of a case that was filed: the Superior Court of California, County of Yolo, through the court records page at yolo.courts.ca.gov.
• Your own statewide record: a Record Review through Live Scan fingerprinting, form BCIA 8016RR, $25.

Cities in Yolo County: Who Reports the Arrests

The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for every one of the four cities in Yolo County: Davis, Woodland, West Sacramento and Winters.

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 Yolo.

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

• Davis (67,125)
• Woodland (62,983)
• West Sacramento (55,991)

Frequently Asked Questions

How many arrests are made in Yolo County each year?

Woodland reported 1,730 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the three agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 3,690 between them.

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

Ask the Yolo County Sheriff's Office at 877-411-5588; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at yolocountysheriff.com/organization/jail.

Where are people arrested in Yolo County booked?

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

Are arrest records public in Yolo County?

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

From the agency that made the arrest: the Yolo 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 Yolo 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.