Cedar Rapids Arrest Records: Who Makes Arrests, Where People Are Booked and How to Get the Report

Who Makes Arrests in Cedar Rapids

The FBI lists Cedar Rapids with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Cedar Rapids Police Department. It reported 5,113 arrests for 2025. 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 Linn County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 338 arrests for 2025.

The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Linn County: Eastern Iowa Airport Public Safety (other).

How Many Arrests Cedar Rapids Reports

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.

• Cedar Rapids: 5,113 for 2025, 5,360 for 2024, 5,239 for 2023, 4,275 for 2022, 3,948 for 2021 and 5,297 for 2020.

Cedar Rapids's 5,113 arrests in 2025 were down 4.6 percent from 5,360 in 2024.

Through August 2026, Cedar Rapids reported 3,562 arrests, against 3,479 in the same months of 2025.

Across Linn County, the five agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 5,750 arrests between them.

Booking: Where People Arrested in Cedar Rapids Are Held

A person kept in custody after an arrest in Cedar Rapids 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.

On an average day in 2023 the jail held about 380 people, down from about 390 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 401 beds, and it ran at 94 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 Linn County Sheriff's Office at linncountyiowa.gov/151/Sheriffs-Office (page title: Sheriff's Office | Linn County, IA), phone 319-892-6100, Monday-Friday 8 a.m.-4 p.m., which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 28, 2026.

A person sentenced to prison serves the sentence in a facility of the Iowa Department of Corrections, whose inmate locator is at doc.iowa.gov/inmate-family-services.

How to Find Out About an Arrest in Cedar Rapids

For Cedar Rapids the place to look is the case index of the Iowa District Court for Linn County, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at iowacourts.gov/iowa-courts/district-court/judicial-district-6/distr..., phone 319-398-3411).

Statewide, Iowa Courts Online is the Iowa Judicial Branch's free statewide case search.

Iowa is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: anyone can request a name-based criminal history check online, through the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation. 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 Cedar Rapids

An arrest report belongs to the agency whose officer wrote it, and that agency releases it, not the court or the jail. Under the Iowa Open Records Law (Chapter 22) the agency must answer without delay; the law sets no fixed number of days, and a delay past 20 days must be justified, and it may charge the actual cost of copying and retrieval.

• An arrest by the Cedar Rapids police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at cedar-rapids.org/news_detail_T6_R1242.php (page title: Welcome to the City of Cedar Rapids, Iowa), phone (319) 286-5491, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
• An arrest by the Linn County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 319-892-6100.
• The court file of a case that was filed: the Iowa District Court for Linn County, through the court records page at iowacourts.gov, phone 319-398-3411.
• Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.

The Linn County guide covers every agency in the county: Linn County arrest records.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many arrests are made in Cedar Rapids each year?

Cedar Rapids reported 5,113 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.

How do I find out if someone is in jail in Cedar Rapids?

Ask the Linn County Sheriff's Office at 319-892-6100; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at linncountyiowa.gov/151/Sheriffs-Office.

Where are people arrested in Cedar Rapids booked?

Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Linn County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.

Are arrest records public in Cedar Rapids?

The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation: anyone can request a name-based criminal history check online. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Iowa Open Records Law (Chapter 22).

How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Cedar Rapids?

From the agency that made the arrest: the Cedar Rapids police for its own arrests, the Linn County Sheriff's Office for the sheriff's. Under the Iowa Open Records Law (Chapter 22) the answer is due without delay; the law sets no fixed number of days, and a delay past 20 days must be justified.

Is this the official Cedar Rapids 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.