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.
Shelley, Idaho, in Bingham County, has about 5,300 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 Bingham 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: Shelley public records, Bingham County arrest records, Idaho arrest records and Idaho inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Shelley
The FBI lists Shelley with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Shelley Police Department. It reported 127 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 Bingham County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 721 arrests for 2025.
How Many Arrests Shelley 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.
- Shelley: 127 for 2025, 190 for 2024, 120 for 2023, 90 for 2022, 72 for 2021 and 90 for 2019; 2020 is missing months.
Shelley's 127 arrests in 2025 were down 33 percent from 190 in 2024.
Through August 2026, Shelley reported 91 arrests, against 80 in the same months of 2025.
Across Bingham County, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,537 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Shelley Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Shelley 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 78 people, down from about 100 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 101 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 jail page of the Bingham County Sheriff's Office at binghamid.gov/sheriff (page title: Bingham County Idaho | Sheriff's Department Home Page), phone 208-785-8040, 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 Shelley
An arrest in Shelley can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the case index of the Bingham County District Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at binghamid.gov/departments/districtcourt, phone (208) 782-3154); the Prosecuting Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at web.binghamid.gov/prosecutor/prosecutor.html).
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 Shelley
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 Shelley police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at cityofshelley.org/city-departments/police-department (page title: Police Department | City of Shelley), phone (208) 357-3446, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Bingham County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 208-785-8040.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the Prosecuting Attorney handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Bingham County District Court, through the court records page at binghamid.gov/departments/districtcourt, phone (208) 782-3154.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Bureau of Criminal Identification.
The Bingham County guide covers every agency in the county: Bingham County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Shelley each year?
Shelley reported 127 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Shelley?
Ask the Bingham County Sheriff's Office at 208-785-8040; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at binghamid.gov/sheriff.
Where are people arrested in Shelley booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Bingham County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Shelley?
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 Shelley?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Shelley police for its own arrests, the Bingham 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 Shelley 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.