Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. 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 September 25, 2026.
Plant City, Florida, in Hillsborough County, has about 43,000 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 Hillsborough County Circuit Court. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it.
This guide covers who makes arrests, arrest counts, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies and common questions.
Related guides: Plant City public records, Hillsborough County arrest records, Florida arrest records and Florida inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Plant City
The FBI lists Plant City with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Plant City Police Department. 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 Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 25,575 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Hillsborough County: the University of South Florida at Tampa (campus police); Tampa International Airport (other); the Department of Law Enforcement at Hillsborough County, Tampa, the Department of Environmental Protection, Law Enforcement in Hillsborough County, the Department of Corrections, Office of the Inspector General in Hillsborough County, the Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco in Hillsborough County and three more (state agency); the Highway Patrol in Hillsborough County (state police).
Arrest Counts on File for Plant City
The FBI publishes monthly arrest counts on the Crime Data Explorer. For Plant City the counts on file are partial: Plant City has sent some months but no full year since 2019, so no annual total is given here.
Across Hillsborough County, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 40,381 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Plant City Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Plant City 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 3,600 people on an average day, up from about 3,070 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023, the last year with a capacity figure, was 4,783 beds, and it ran at 66 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 Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office at webapps.hcso.tampa.fl.us/arrestinquiry (page title: HCSO Arrest Inquiry), phone (850) 410-8109, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.
A person sentenced to prison serves the sentence in a facility of the Florida Department of Corrections, whose inmate locator is at fdc.myflorida.com.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Plant City
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 Plant City
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 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 Plant City police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at plantcitygov.com/departments/public_safety/police/services/records_... (page title: City of Plant City Florida), phone 813-757-9200, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
- An arrest by the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (850) 410-8109.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at hcfl.gov (page title: Public Records Request | Hillsborough County, FL).
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The Hillsborough County guide covers every agency in the county: Hillsborough County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Plant City?
Ask the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office at (850) 410-8109; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at webapps.hcso.tampa.fl.us/arrestinquiry.
Where are people arrested in Plant City booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Plant City?
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 Plant City?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Plant City police for its own arrests, the Hillsborough 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 hcfl.gov.
Is this the official Plant City 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.