Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones the agency reported to the FBI, through 2025. 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 26, 2026 and October 2, 2026.
Hailey, Idaho, in Blaine County, has about 10,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and its arrests are reported to the FBI by an agency of its own. An arrest in the city leaves the same records whoever makes it: the arresting agency's report, the record of anyone held at the county jail, and, if the Prosecuting Attorney files charges, a case in the Blaine County District Court. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it, with the arrest counts the agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies and common questions.
Related guides: Hailey public records, Blaine County arrest records, Idaho arrest records and Idaho inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Hailey
The FBI lists Hailey with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Hailey Police Department. It reported 160 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 Blaine County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 181 arrests for 2025.
How Many Arrests Hailey Reports
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.
- Hailey: 160 for 2025, 206 for 2024, 201 for 2022, 161 for 2021, 147 for 2020 and 221 for 2019; 2023 is missing months.
Hailey's 160 arrests in 2025 were down 22 percent from 206 in 2024.
Across Blaine County, the five agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 526 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Hailey Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Hailey 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 7 people, down from about 61 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 90 beds, and it ran at 68 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
A sentence of more than a year is served in state prison; the Idaho Department of Correction lists its inmates at idoc.idaho.gov/content/prisons/resident-client-search.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Hailey
For Hailey the place to look is iCourt Portal, the Idaho courts' free statewide case search, which shows whether charges were filed.
Idaho is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: name-based conviction checks are open to the public, through the Idaho State Police Bureau of Criminal Identification. 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 Hailey
An arrest report belongs to the agency whose officer wrote it, and that agency releases it, not the court or the jail. Under the Idaho Public Records Act the agency must answer within 3 working days, or 10 when more time is needed, and it may charge copying after the first 100 pages and labor after the first two hours.
- An arrest by the Hailey police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at haileycityhall.org/hailey-police-department (page title: Hailey Police Department | Safety by City of Hailey, ID), phone (208) 788-3531, 311 Cedar St E Hailey, ID 83333, MON-FRI Closed for Lunch: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Blaine County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Bureau of Criminal Identification.
The Blaine County guide covers every agency in the county: Blaine County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Hailey each year?
Hailey reported 160 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
Where are people arrested in Hailey booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Blaine County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Hailey?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Idaho State Police Bureau of Criminal Identification: name-based conviction checks are open to the public. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Idaho Public Records Act.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Hailey?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Hailey police for its own arrests, the Blaine County Sheriff's Office for the sheriff's. Under the Idaho Public Records Act the answer is due within 3 working days, or 10 when more time is needed.
Is this the official Hailey 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.