Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones the agency reported to the FBI, through 2025. 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 9, 2026.
Brooksville, Florida, in Hernando County, has about 10,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and its arrests are reported to the FBI by an agency of its own. An arrest in the city leaves the same records whoever makes it: the arresting agency's report, the record of anyone held at the county jail, and, if the State Attorney files charges, a case in the Hernando County Circuit Court. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it, with the arrest counts the agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies and common questions.
Related guides: Brooksville public records, Hernando County arrest records, Florida arrest records and Florida inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Brooksville
The FBI lists Brooksville with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Brooksville Police Department. It reported 736 arrests for 2025. A city is listed separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.
Outside the city, the Hernando County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 4,535 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Hernando County: the Highway Patrol in Hernando County (state police); the Department of Environmental Protection, Law Enforcement in Hernando County, the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Office of Agricultural Law Enforcement at Hernando, the Department of Corrections, Office of the Inspector General in Hernando County, the Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco in Hernando County and one more (state agency).
How Many Arrests Brooksville Reports
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.
- Brooksville: 736 for 2025, 551 for 2024, 710 for 2023, 656 for 2022 and 559 for 2021.
Brooksville's 736 arrests in 2025 were up 34 percent from 551 in 2024.
Through August 2026, Brooksville reported 314 arrests, against 507 in the same months of 2025.
Across Hernando County, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 5,271 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Brooksville Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Brooksville 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.
So far in 2026 the jail has held about 1,130 people on an average day, up from about 650 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023, the last year with a capacity figure, was 812 beds, and it ran at 75 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 Hernando County Sheriff's Office at hernandosheriff.org/jail/applications/jailsearch (page title: Hernando County Detention), phone (352) 754-6830, 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 Florida Department of Corrections lists its inmates at fdc.myflorida.com.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Brooksville
Whether someone was arrested in Brooksville, and what came of it, shows up in three places: the custody page of the Hernando County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Hernando County Circuit Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at flcourts.gov/Courts-System/Court-Structure/Court-Locations/Fifth-Di...); the State Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at sao5.org/contact-us, phone (352)569-6650).
Florida is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: anyone can run a name-based criminal history search online for $24, for $24 a search, through the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. That record shows what agencies reported to the state, which is wider than one county's court index but can lag it.
Getting a Copy of an Arrest Record in Brooksville
An arrest report belongs to the agency whose officer wrote it, and that agency releases it, not the court or the jail. Under the Florida Public Records Act (Chapter 119) the agency must answer promptly and in good faith; the statute sets no number of days, and it may charge the copy fees set by statute, plus a special service charge for large requests.
- An arrest by the Brooksville police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at cityofbrooksville.us/FormCenter/Clerk-7/Request-for-Public-Records-61 (page title: Form Center, Request for Public Records), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Hernando County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (352) 754-6830.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the State Attorney, (352)569-6650, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Hernando County Circuit Court, through the court records page at flcourts.gov.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at hernandoclerk.com (page title: Public Records Requests | Hernando County Clerk of Circuit Court & Comptroller).
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The Hernando County guide covers every agency in the county: Hernando County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Brooksville each year?
Brooksville reported 736 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Brooksville?
Look on the custody page of the Hernando County Sheriff's Office at hernandosheriff.org, or call (352) 754-6830. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Brooksville booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Hernando County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Brooksville?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement: anyone can run a name-based criminal history search online for $24, for $24. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Florida Public Records Act (Chapter 119).
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Brooksville?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Brooksville police for its own arrests, the Hernando County Sheriff's Office for the sheriff's. Under the Florida Public Records Act (Chapter 119) the answer is due promptly and in good faith; the statute sets no number of days; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at hernandoclerk.com.
Is this the official Brooksville website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official city, county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.