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

Who Makes Arrests in Coralville

The FBI lists Coralville with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Coralville Police Department. It reported 527 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 Johnson County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 417 arrests for 2025.

The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Johnson County: the University of Iowa (campus police).

How Many Arrests Coralville 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.

• Coralville: 527 for 2025, 494 for 2024, 437 for 2023, 520 for 2022, 420 for 2021 and 468 for 2020.

Coralville's 527 arrests in 2025 were up 6.7 percent from 494 in 2024.

Through August 2026, Coralville reported 292 arrests, against 373 in the same months of 2025.

Across Johnson County, the five agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 3,610 arrests between them.

Booking: Where People Arrested in Coralville Are Held

A person kept in custody after an arrest in Coralville 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 2021 the jail held about 69 people, down from about 100 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 92 beds, and it ran at 114 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 Iowa Department of Corrections, whose inmate locator is at doc.iowa.gov/inmate-family-services.

How to Find Out About an Arrest in Coralville

Whether someone was arrested in Coralville, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Iowa District Court for Johnson 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 319-356-6060); the County Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at johnsoncountyiowa.gov/department-of-county-attorney, phone 319-339-6100).

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 Coralville

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 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 Coralville police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at coralville.org/1003/Records (page title: Records | Coralville, IA), phone 319.248.1800, Monday - Friday 7:30 am - 7:00 pm, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
• An arrest by the Johnson County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
• A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the County Attorney, 319-339-6100, handles discovery for pending cases.
• The court file of a case that was filed: the Iowa District Court for Johnson County, through the court records page at iowacourts.gov, phone 319-356-6060.
• Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at johnsoncountyiowa.gov/requests-public-records (page title: Johnson County Iowa requests for public records).
• Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.

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

Frequently Asked Questions

How many arrests are made in Coralville each year?

Coralville reported 527 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.

Where are people arrested in Coralville booked?

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

Are arrest records public in Coralville?

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 Coralville?

From the agency that made the arrest: the Coralville police for its own arrests, the Johnson 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; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at johnsoncountyiowa.gov/requests-public-records.

Is this the official Coralville 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.