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 26, 2026.
Post Falls, Idaho, in Kootenai County, has about 46,000 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 Kootenai 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: Post Falls public records, Kootenai County arrest records, Idaho arrest records and Idaho inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Post Falls
The FBI lists Post Falls with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Post Falls Police Department. It reported 958 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 Kootenai County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 2,398 arrests for 2025.
How Many Arrests Post 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.
- Post Falls: 958 for 2025, 959 for 2024, 1,256 for 2023, 1,261 for 2022 and 1,748 for 2019; 2020 and 2021 are missing months.
Post Falls's 958 arrests in 2025 were down 0.1 percent from 959 in 2024.
Through April 2026, Post Falls reported 429 arrests, against 307 in the same months of 2025.
Across Kootenai County, the four agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 5,805 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Post Falls Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Post 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 460 people, up from about 410 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 451 beds, and it ran at 103 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the custody page of the Kootenai County Sheriff's Office at kcsheriff.com/169/In-Custody-Report (page title: In-Custody Report | Kootenai County Sheriff, ID), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 2026.
That page is the place to look for someone who was booked recently; a person cited and released at the scene, or held only a few hours by a city department, will not be on it.
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 Post Falls
An arrest in Post Falls can be traced in three places, depending on where the case stands: the custody page of the Kootenai County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; iCourt Portal, the Idaho courts' free statewide case search, which shows whether charges were filed; the Prosecuting Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at kcgov.us/454/Prosecuting-Attorney, phone 208-446-1800).
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 Post Falls
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 Post Falls police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at postfallspolice.gov/217/Public-Records-Requests (page title: Public Records Requests | Post Falls, ID), phone 208-773-3517, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Kootenai County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the Prosecuting Attorney, 208-446-1800, handles discovery for pending cases.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at kcgov.us/655/Public-Records-Request (page title: Public Records Request | Kootenai County, ID).
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Bureau of Criminal Identification.
The Kootenai County guide covers every agency in the county: Kootenai County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Post Falls each year?
Post Falls reported 958 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Post Falls?
Look on the custody page of the Kootenai County Sheriff's Office at kcsheriff.com/169/In-Custody-Report. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Post Falls booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Kootenai County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Post 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 Post Falls?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Post Falls police for its own arrests, the Kootenai 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; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at kcgov.us/655/Public-Records-Request.
Is this the official Post 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.