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 2022. 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 9, 2026.
Mountain Home, Idaho, in Elmore County, has about 17,000 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 Elmore 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: Mountain Home public records, Elmore County arrest records, Idaho arrest records and Idaho inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Mountain Home
The FBI lists Mountain Home with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Mountain Home Police Department. It reported 560 arrests for 2022, its latest complete year. 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 Elmore County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 120 arrests for 2024.
How Many Arrests Mountain Home 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.
- Mountain Home: 560 for 2022, 597 for 2020 and 636 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
Across Elmore County, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2022 on file reported 658 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Mountain Home Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Mountain Home 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 2021 the jail held about 51 people, down from about 120 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 127 beds, and it ran at 98 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 Mountain Home
An arrest in Mountain Home can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the case index of the Elmore County District Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at elmorecounty.org/court, phone (208) 587-2130); the Prosecuting Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at elmorecounty.org/prosecuting-attorney, phone 208.587.2130).
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 Mountain Home
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 Mountain Home police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at mountain-home.us/170/Police-Department (page title: Police Department | Mountain Home, ID), phone 208-587-2101, 2775 East 8th North St. Mountain Home, ID 83647, Monday through Friday 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Elmore County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the Prosecuting Attorney, 208.587.2130, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Elmore County District Court, through the court records page at elmorecounty.org/court, phone (208) 587-2130.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Bureau of Criminal Identification.
The Elmore County guide covers every agency in the county: Elmore County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Mountain Home each year?
Mountain Home reported 560 arrests to the FBI for 2022, its latest full year.
Where are people arrested in Mountain Home booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Elmore County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Mountain Home?
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 Mountain Home?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Mountain Home police for its own arrests, the Elmore 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 Mountain Home 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.