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 on September 30, 2026.
Page County, Iowa, has about 15,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Page County Sheriff's Office and two city 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 County Attorney files charges, a case in the Iowa District Court for Page 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: Page County public records, Iowa arrest records, Iowa inmate search and Iowa criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Page County
The Page County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Page County. It reported 64 arrests for 2025.
Arrests inside two of the county's cities are reported to the FBI by an agency of the city's own, listed here with the Census population and what each reported:
- Clarinda, 5,334 residents: 83 arrests reported for 2025.
- Shenandoah, 4,878 residents: 165 arrests reported for 2024.
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 Page 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.
- Clarinda: 83 for 2025, 94 for 2024, 92 for 2023, 109 for 2022, 120 for 2021 and 123 for 2020.
- Page County Sheriff's Office: 64 for 2025, 76 for 2024, 100 for 2023, 139 for 2022, 113 for 2020 and 146 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
- Shenandoah: 165 for 2024, 186 for 2023, 145 for 2022, 133 for 2021, 149 for 2020 and 120 for 2019.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 147 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 147 in 2025 against 170 in 2024, down 14 percent.
Through August 2026, the two agencies with every month so far on file reported 125 arrests, against 92 in the same months of 2025.
Shenandoah reported only part of 2025 (11 months) and is left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Page County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Page 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.
On an average day in 2019 the jail held about 15 people. Its rated capacity in 2019 was 35 beds, and it ran at 43 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 Page County Sheriff's Office at pagecounty.iowa.gov/offices/sheriffs-office (page title: Page County | Sheriff's Office), phone (712) 542-5193, Monday - Friday 8:00 am - 4:30 pm, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 30, 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 Page County
For Page County the place to look is Iowa Courts Online, the Iowa Judicial Branch's free statewide case search, which shows whether charges were filed.
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 Page County
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 Page County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (712) 542-5193.
- An arrest in Clarinda or Shenandoah: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Page County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for two of the ten cities in Page County: Clarinda and Shenandoah. Essex, College Springs, Coin, Shambaugh, Braddyville, Yorktown, Northboro and Blanchard 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 Page County.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Page County each year?
Clarinda reported 83 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the two agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 147 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Page County?
Ask the Page County Sheriff's Office at (712) 542-5193; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at pagecounty.iowa.gov/offices/sheriffs-office.
Where are people arrested in Page County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Page County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Page 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 Page County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Page 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 Page 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.