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 1, 2026.
Orange County, Florida, has about 1.5 million residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Orange County Sheriff's Office, 11 city agencies 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 Orange 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: Orange County public records, Florida arrest records, Florida inmate search and Florida criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Orange County
The Orange County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Orange County. It reported 17,073 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists 11 cities in Orange County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Orlando, 334,854 residents.
- Apopka, 62,777 residents.
- Ocoee, 51,269 residents.
- Winter Garden, 48,771 residents.
- Winter Park, 30,835 residents.
- Maitland, 19,776 residents.
- Belle Isle, 7,741 residents.
- Oakland, 3,796 residents: 58 arrests reported for 2020.
- Windermere, 3,223 residents.
- Edgewood, 2,867 residents: 81 arrests reported for 2025.
- Eatonville, 2,356 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 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).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Orange 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.
- Orange County Sheriff's Office: 17,073 for 2025.
- Edgewood: 81 for 2025, 37 for 2024, 0 for 2023, 0 for 2022, 82 for 2020 and 103 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
- Oakland: 58 for 2020 and 76 for 2019.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 17,154 arrests that year. The one of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 81 in 2025 against 37 in 2024.
Through March 2026, the two agencies with every month so far on file reported 4,886 arrests, against 3,582 in the same months of 2025.
Oakland reported only part of 2025 (2 months) and is left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Orange County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Orange County is held at the county jail, whichever agency made the arrest, apart from the short stay some city departments' own holding cells allow; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked at all. The jail's record of each person held, with the charges, is a public record of the arrest, and the court file takes over from there.
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 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 Orange 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 Orange 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 Orange County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (407) 836-3400.
- An arrest in Orlando, Apopka, Ocoee, Winter Garden, Winter Park, Maitland or another of the cities listed above: 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 Law Enforcement at Orange County, Orlando, the University of Central Florida or the Department of Corrections, Office of the Inspector General in Orange County: the records office of the agency involved.
- 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.
Cities in Orange County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for 11 of the 13 cities in Orange County: Orlando, Apopka, Ocoee, Winter Garden, Winter Park, Maitland, Belle Isle, Oakland, Windermere, Edgewood and Eatonville. Lake Buena Vista and Bay Lake 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 Orange County Circuit Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Orange County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Orlando (334,854)
- Apopka (62,777)
- Ocoee (51,269)
- Winter Garden (48,771)
- Winter Park (30,835)
- Maitland (19,776)
- Belle Isle (7,741)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Orange County each year?
The Orange County Sheriff's Office reported 17,073 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the two agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 17,154 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Orange County?
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 Orange County 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 Orange 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 Orange County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Orange 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 orangecountyfl.net.
Is this the official Orange 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.