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 24, 2026 and September 28, 2026.
Idaho Falls, Idaho, in Bonneville County, has about 70,000 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 Bonneville 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: Idaho Falls public records, Bonneville County arrest records, Idaho arrest records and Idaho inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Idaho Falls
The FBI lists Idaho Falls with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Idaho Falls Police Department. It reported 2,255 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 Bonneville County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 999 arrests for 2025.
How Many Arrests Idaho Falls 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.
- Idaho Falls: 2,255 for 2025, 2,361 for 2024, 2,090 for 2023, 1,977 for 2022, 1,885 for 2021 and 1,661 for 2020.
Idaho Falls's 2,255 arrests in 2025 were down 4.5 percent from 2,361 in 2024.
Through August 2026, Idaho Falls reported 1,352 arrests, against 1,524 in the same months of 2025.
Across Bonneville County, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 3,254 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Idaho Falls Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Idaho Falls 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 2023 the jail held about 340 people, down from about 370 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 533 beds, and it ran at 64 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 Bonneville County Sheriff's Office at bonnevillecountyidaho.gov/administration/sheriff (page title: Sheriff | Bonneville County), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 28, 2026.
A person sentenced to prison serves the sentence in a facility of the Idaho Department of Correction, whose inmate locator is at idoc.idaho.gov/content/prisons/resident-client-search.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Idaho Falls
Whether someone was arrested in Idaho Falls, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Bonneville County District Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at bonnevillecountyidaho.gov/page/court-records, phone (208) 529-1350); the Prosecuting Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at bonnevillecountyidaho.gov/administration/prosecuting-attorney, phone 208-529-1348).
Statewide, iCourt Portal is the Idaho courts' free statewide case search.
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 Idaho Falls
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 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 Idaho Falls police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at idahofallsidaho.gov/768/Records (page title: Records | Idaho Falls, ID), phone 208-612-8600, Monday, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m., which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Bonneville County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the Prosecuting Attorney, 208-529-1348, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Bonneville County District Court, through the court records page at bonnevillecountyidaho.gov/page/court-records, phone (208) 529-1350.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Bureau of Criminal Identification.
The Bonneville County guide covers every agency in the county: Bonneville County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Idaho Falls each year?
Idaho Falls reported 2,255 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Idaho Falls?
Ask the Bonneville County Sheriff's Office; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at bonnevillecountyidaho.gov.
Where are people arrested in Idaho Falls booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Bonneville County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Idaho Falls?
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 Idaho Falls?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Idaho Falls police for its own arrests, the Bonneville 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 Idaho Falls 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.