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.
Martin County, Florida, has about 166,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Martin County Sheriff's Office, three city agencies and six 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 Martin 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: Martin County public records, Florida arrest records, Florida inmate search and Florida criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Martin County
The Martin County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Martin County. It reported 153 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists three cities in Martin County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Stuart, 19,566 residents: 375 arrests reported for 2024.
- Sewall's Point, 2,072 residents: 22 arrests reported for 2020.
- Jupiter Island, 837 residents.
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 Martin County: the Highway Patrol in Martin County (state police); the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Office of Agricultural Law Enforcement at Martin, the Department of Corrections, Office of the Inspector General in Martin County, the Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco in Martin County, the Martin County Florida Game Commission and one more (state agency).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Martin County
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.
- Stuart: 375 for 2024, 347 for 2023 and 363 for 2022.
- Martin County Sheriff's Office: 153 for 2025, 196 for 2024, 176 for 2023 and 147 for 2022.
- Sewall's Point: 22 for 2020 and 46 for 2019.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2024 on file reported 571 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2024 and 2023 complete reported 571 in 2024 against 523 in 2023, up 9.2 percent.
Sewall's Point reported only part of 2024 (10 months) and is left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Martin County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Martin 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 610 people on an average day, up from about 440 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 696 beds, and it ran at 63 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 Martin County
For Martin County the place to look is the case index of the Martin County Circuit Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at martinclerk.com/226/Court-Records, phone 772-223-7917).
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 Martin 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 Martin County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Stuart, Sewall's Point or Jupiter Island: 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 Highway Patrol in Martin County, the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Office of Agricultural Law Enforcement at Martin or the Department of Corrections, Office of the Inspector General in Martin County: the records office of the agency involved.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Martin County Circuit Court, through the court records page at martinclerk.com/226/Court-Records, phone 772-223-7917.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at martin.fl.us/PRR (page title: Make a Public Records Request | Martin County Florida).
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Martin County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for three of the five cities in Martin County: Stuart, Sewall's Point and Jupiter Island. Indiantown and Ocean Breeze have 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 Martin County Circuit Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Martin County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Stuart (19,566)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Martin County each year?
Stuart reported 375 arrests to the FBI for 2024, and the two agencies with every month of 2024 on file reported 571 between them.
Where are people arrested in Martin County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Martin County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Martin 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 Martin County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Martin 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 martin.fl.us/PRR.
Is this the official Martin 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.