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 25, 2026 and October 1, 2026.
Winter Park, Florida, in Orange County, has about 31,000 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 Orange 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: Winter Park public records, Orange County arrest records, Florida arrest records and Florida inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Winter Park
The FBI lists Winter Park with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Winter Park 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 Orange County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 17,073 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Orange County: the Department of Law Enforcement at Orange County, Orlando, the Department of Corrections, Office of the Inspector General in Orange County, the Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco in Orange County, the Department of Insurance in Orange County and three more (state agency); the University of Central Florida (campus police); Orange County Public Schools (other); the Highway Patrol in Orange County (state police).
Arrest Counts on File for Winter Park
The FBI publishes monthly arrest counts on the Crime Data Explorer. For Winter Park the counts on file are partial: Winter Park has sent some months but no full year since 2019, so no annual total is given here.
Across Orange County, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 17,154 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Winter Park Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Winter Park 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 2,960 people on an average day, up from about 2,470 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023, the last year with a capacity figure, was 3,690 beds, and it ran at 57 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 Orange County Sheriff's Office at netapps.ocfl.net/BestJail/Home/Inmates (page title: Inmates | OCFL), phone (407) 836-3400, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on October 1, 2026.
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 Winter Park
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 Winter Park
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 Winter Park police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at cityofwinterpark.org/departments/police/contact/public-records (page title: Public Records | Winter Park Police Department), phone 407-758-3490, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
- An arrest by the Orange County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (407) 836-3400.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at orangecountyfl.net (page title: Public Records Requests).
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The Orange County guide covers every agency in the county: Orange County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Winter Park?
Ask the Orange County Sheriff's Office at (407) 836-3400; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at netapps.ocfl.net/BestJail/Home/Inmates.
Where are people arrested in Winter Park booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Orange County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Winter Park?
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 Winter Park?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Winter Park police for its own arrests, the Orange 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 orangecountyfl.net.
Is this the official Winter Park 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.