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 24, 2026 and October 2, 2026.
Carroll County, Iowa, has about 20,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Carroll County Sheriff's Office and one city agency. 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 County Attorney files charges, a case in the Iowa District Court for Carroll County. 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: Carroll County public records, Iowa arrest records, Iowa inmate search and Iowa criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Carroll County
The Carroll County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Carroll County. It reported 88 arrests for 2024, its latest complete year.
The FBI lists one city in Carroll County with a reporting agency of its own:
- Carroll, 10,125 residents: 252 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.
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Carroll 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.
- Carroll: 252 for 2025, 222 for 2024, 252 for 2023, 192 for 2021, 347 for 2020 and 444 for 2019; 2022 is missing months.
- Carroll County Sheriff's Office: 88 for 2024, 70 for 2023, 63 for 2022 and 51 for 2021.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2024 on file reported 310 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2024 and 2023 complete reported 310 in 2024 against 322 in 2023, down 3.7 percent.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Carroll County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Carroll 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.
On an average day in 2019 the jail held about 10 people. Its rated capacity in 2019 was 14 beds, and it ran at 71 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 Carroll County Sheriff's Office at carrollcountyiowa.gov/pview.aspx?id=21043&catid=0 (page title: Jail Information | Carroll County IA), phone (712) 792-4393, 114 E 6th St Carroll, IA 51401, Monday - Friday 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., a site that blocks automated checks (HTTP 403), so open it in a browser.
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 Carroll County
For Carroll County the place to look is the case index of the Iowa District Court for Carroll County, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at iowacourts.state.ia.us/ESAWebApp/SelectFrame).
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 Carroll 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 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 Carroll County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (712) 792-4393.
- An arrest in Carroll: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Iowa District Court for Carroll County, through the court records page at iowacourts.state.ia.us/ESAWebApp/SelectFrame.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Carroll County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for one of the 13 cities in Carroll County: Carroll. Manning, Coon Rapids, Glidden, Arcadia, Breda, Templeton, Halbur, Dedham, Lidderdale, Lanesboro, Ralston and Willey 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 Iowa District Court for Carroll County.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Carroll County each year?
Carroll reported 252 arrests to the FBI for 2025. For 2024, the latest year most of the agencies in Carroll County sent in full, the two with every month on file reported 310 between them.
Where are people arrested in Carroll County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Carroll County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Carroll County?
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 Carroll County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Carroll County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. 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 Carroll 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.