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.
St. Cloud, Florida, in Osceola County, has about 71,000 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 Osceola 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: St. Cloud public records, Osceola County arrest records, Florida arrest records and Florida inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in St. Cloud
The FBI lists St. Cloud with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as St. Cloud Police Department. It reported 694 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 Osceola County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 6,274 arrests for 2023.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Osceola County: the Department of Corrections, Office of the Inspector General in Osceola County, the Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco in Osceola County, the Osceola County Florida Game Commission, the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Office of Agricultural Law Enforcement at Osceola and one more (state agency); the Highway Patrol in Osceola County (state police).
How Many Arrests St. Cloud 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.
- St. Cloud: 694 for 2025, 717 for 2024 and 826 for 2023.
St. Cloud's 694 arrests in 2025 were down 3.2 percent from 717 in 2024.
Through September 2026, St. Cloud reported 419 arrests, against 539 in the same months of 2025.
Across Osceola County, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 2,076 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in St. Cloud Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in St. Cloud 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 890 people on an average day, up from about 860 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023, the last year with a capacity figure, was 1,039 beds, and it ran at 68 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 Florida Department of Corrections lists its inmates at fdc.myflorida.com.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in St. Cloud
Whether someone was arrested in St. Cloud, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Osceola County Circuit Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at ninthcircuit.org/resources/case-query, phone 407-836-2380); the State Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at sao9.net, phone 407 836-2400).
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 St. Cloud
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 St. Cloud police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at stcloudfl.gov/905/Police (page title: Police Department Frequently Asked Questions | City of St. Cloud, Florida), phone 407-957-8442, Monday through Friday 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
- An arrest by the Osceola County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the State Attorney, 407 836-2400, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Osceola County Circuit Court, through the court records page at ninthcircuit.org/resources/case-query, phone 407-836-2380.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at osceola.org (page title: Make a Public Records Request | Osceola County).
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The Osceola County guide covers every agency in the county: Osceola County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in St. Cloud each year?
St. Cloud reported 694 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
Where are people arrested in St. Cloud booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Osceola County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in St. Cloud?
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 St. Cloud?
From the agency that made the arrest: the St. Cloud police for its own arrests, the Osceola 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 osceola.org.
Is this the official St. Cloud 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.