Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones each agency reported to the FBI, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026. 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 2, 2026.
Escambia County, Florida, has about 331,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Escambia County Sheriff's Office, one city agency and ten campus, state or other agencies. An arrest 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 Escambia County Circuit Court. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it, with the arrest counts each agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies, cities and common questions.
Related guides: Escambia County public records, Florida arrest records, Florida inmate search and Florida criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Escambia County
The Escambia County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Escambia County.
One city in Escambia County reports its arrests to the FBI separately:
- Pensacola, 53,898 residents: 1,107 arrests reported for 2025.
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 Escambia County: the Department of Environmental Protection, Law Enforcement in Escambia County, the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Office of Agricultural Law Enforcement at Escambia, the Escambia County Florida Game Commission, the Department of Insurance in Escambia County and three more (state agency); Pensacola State College and the University of West Florida (campus police); the Highway Patrol in Escambia County (state police).
How Many Arrests Pensacola 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.
- Pensacola: 1,107 for 2025 and 1,556 for 2023; 2024 is missing months.
Through April 2026, Pensacola reported 419 arrests, against 321 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Escambia County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Escambia County 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 1,480 people on an average day, down from about 1,590 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023, the last year with a capacity figure, was 2,275 beds, and it ran at 65 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
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 Escambia County
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 Escambia 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 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 Escambia County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Pensacola: 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 Department of Environmental Protection, Law Enforcement in Escambia County, the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Office of Agricultural Law Enforcement at Escambia or Pensacola State College: the records office of the agency involved.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at myescambia.com (page title: Public Records Requests).
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Escambia County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for one of the two cities in Escambia County: Pensacola. Century has no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Escambia County Circuit Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Escambia County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Pensacola (53,898)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Escambia County each year?
Pensacola reported 1,107 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
Where are people arrested in Escambia County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Escambia County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Escambia County?
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 Escambia County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Escambia County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. 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 myescambia.com.
Is this the official Escambia 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.