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 9, 2026.
Leon County, Florida, has about 300,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Leon County Sheriff's Office, one city agency and 13 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 Leon 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: Leon County public records, Florida arrest records, Florida inmate search and Florida criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Leon County
The Leon County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Leon County. It reported 1,370 arrests for 2024, its latest complete year.
One city in Leon County reports its arrests to the FBI separately:
- Tallahassee, 205,089 residents: 3,468 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 Leon County: Tallahassee Community College, Florida A&M University and Florida State University at Tallahassee (campus police); the State Treasurer's Office Division of Insurance Fraud, Leon County Agriculture and Consumer Services Tallahassee, the Capitol Police, the Leon County Florida Game Commission and five more (state agency); the Highway Patrol in Leon County (state police).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Leon County
The FBI publishes every agency's monthly arrest counts 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.
- Tallahassee: 3,468 for 2025, 3,975 for 2024, 4,101 for 2023 and 3,757 for 2022.
- Leon County Sheriff's Office: 1,370 for 2024.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2024 on file reported 5,345 arrests that year. The one of them with both 2024 and 2023 complete reported 3,975 in 2024 against 4,101 in 2023, down 3.1 percent.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Leon County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Leon 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 1,040 people on an average day, down from about 1,140 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023, the last year with a capacity figure, was 1,427 beds, and it ran at 73 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 Leon County Sheriff's Office at leoncountyso.com/About-us/Departments/Detention-Facility/Inmate-search (page title: Leon County Sheriff's Office > About us > Departments > Detention Facility > Inmate search), phone (850) 606-3300, 2825 Major James Morgan Jr. Way Tallahassee, FL 32304, a site that blocks automated checks (HTTP 403), so open it in a browser.
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 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 Leon County
Whether someone was arrested in Leon County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the custody page of the Leon County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Leon County Circuit Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at leonclerk.com/helpful-resources/records/court-records).
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 Leon County
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 Leon County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (850) 606-3300.
- An arrest in Tallahassee: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- An arrest by Tallahassee Community College, the State Treasurer's Office Division of Insurance Fraud or Leon County Agriculture and Consumer Services Tallahassee: the records office of the agency involved.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Leon County Circuit Court, through the court records page at leonclerk.com.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The other Leon County guides go further: warrants, inmate search, criminal records, court records, police reports, traffic tickets, DUI, divorce records and property records.
Cities in Leon County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for Tallahassee, the one city in Leon County.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Leon County Circuit Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Leon County each year?
Tallahassee reported 3,468 arrests to the FBI for 2025. For 2024, the latest year most of the agencies in Leon County sent in full, the two with every month on file reported 5,345 between them.
Where are people arrested in Leon County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Leon County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Leon 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 Leon County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Leon 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.
Is this the official Leon 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.