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

Who Makes Arrests in Moscow

The FBI lists Moscow with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Moscow Police Department. It reported 477 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 Latah County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 207 arrests for 2025.

How Many Arrests Moscow 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.

• Moscow: 477 for 2025, 468 for 2024, 483 for 2023, 421 for 2022, 504 for 2021 and 469 for 2019; 2020 is missing months.

Moscow's 477 arrests in 2025 were up 1.9 percent from 468 in 2024.

Through August 2026, Moscow reported 299 arrests, against 328 in the same months of 2025.

Across Latah County, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 684 arrests between them.

Booking: Where People Arrested in Moscow Are Held

A person kept in custody after an arrest in Moscow 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 30 people. Its rated capacity in 2019 was 39 beds, and it ran at 77 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 Latah County Sheriff's Office at latahcountyid.gov/sheriff/detention (page title: Detention), phone 866-516-0115, Wednesday from 6:30 to 9:00 PM, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 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 Moscow

Whether someone was arrested in Moscow, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Latah County District Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at latahcountyid.gov/district_court, phone (208) 883-2255); the Prosecuting Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at latahcountyid.gov/prosecutor, phone 208-883-7003).

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 Moscow

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 Moscow police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at ci.moscow.id.us/DocumentCenter/View/32283/MPD-Public-Records-Request (page title: Revised Sept. 2024 MOSCOW POLICE DEPARTMENT PUBLIC RECORDS REQUEST), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
• An arrest by the Latah County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 866-516-0115.
• A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the Prosecuting Attorney, 208-883-7003, handles discovery for pending cases.
• The court file of a case that was filed: the Latah County District Court, through the court records page at latahcountyid.gov/district_court, phone (208) 883-2255.
• Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Bureau of Criminal Identification.

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

Frequently Asked Questions

How many arrests are made in Moscow each year?

Moscow reported 477 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.

How do I find out if someone is in jail in Moscow?

Ask the Latah County Sheriff's Office at 866-516-0115; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at latahcountyid.gov/sheriff/detention.

Where are people arrested in Moscow booked?

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

Are arrest records public in Moscow?

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 Moscow?

From the agency that made the arrest: the Moscow police for its own arrests, the Latah 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 Moscow 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.