Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones each agency reported to the FBI, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026. 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.
Bannock County, Idaho, has about 91,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Bannock County Sheriff's Office and two city agencies. An arrest 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 Bannock County District Court. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it, with the arrest counts each agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies, cities and common questions.
Related guides: Bannock County public records, Idaho arrest records, Idaho inmate search and Idaho criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Bannock County
The Bannock County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Bannock County. It reported 542 arrests for 2025.
Arrests inside two of the county's cities are reported to the FBI by an agency of the city's own, listed here with the Census population and what each reported:
- Pocatello, 58,231 residents: 2,532 arrests reported for 2025.
- Chubbuck, 16,577 residents: 462 arrests reported for 2025.
A city on that list is reported separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Bannock County
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.
- Pocatello: 2,532 for 2025, 2,903 for 2024, 2,694 for 2023, 2,543 for 2022, 2,738 for 2021 and 2,204 for 2020.
- Bannock County Sheriff's Office: 542 for 2025, 573 for 2024, 667 for 2023, 651 for 2022, 576 for 2021 and 345 for 2020.
- Chubbuck: 462 for 2025, 597 for 2024, 573 for 2023, 474 for 2022, 524 for 2021 and 638 for 2020.
Together, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 3,536 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 3,536 in 2025 against 4,073 in 2024, down 13 percent.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Bannock County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Bannock County 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 2023 the jail held about 270 people, up from about 260 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 314 beds, and it ran at 86 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 Bannock County Sheriff's Office at bannockcounty.gov/jail-roster (page title: Jail Roster | Bannock County), phone 208-236-7111, Monday - Thursday 7:00 a.m - 6:00 p.m, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 28, 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 Bannock County
An arrest in Bannock County can be traced in three places, depending on where the case stands: the custody page of the Bannock County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Bannock County District Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at isc.idaho.gov/district-6, phone 208-236-7379); the Prosecuting Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at bannockcounty.gov/prosecutor, phone 208-236-7280).
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 Bannock County
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 Bannock County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 208-236-7111.
- An arrest in Pocatello or Chubbuck: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the Prosecuting Attorney, 208-236-7280, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Bannock County District Court, through the court records page at isc.idaho.gov/district-6, phone 208-236-7379.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at bannockcounty.gov/recordsrequest (page title: Public Records Requests | Bannock County).
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Bureau of Criminal Identification.
Cities in Bannock County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for two of the seven cities in Bannock County: Pocatello and Chubbuck. Inkom, McCammon, Downey, Lava Hot Springs and Arimo have no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Bannock County District Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Bannock County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Bannock County each year?
Pocatello reported 2,532 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the three agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 3,536 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Bannock County?
Look on the custody page of the Bannock County Sheriff's Office at bannockcounty.gov/jail-roster, or call 208-236-7111. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Bannock County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Bannock County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Bannock County?
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 Bannock County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Bannock County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. 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 bannockcounty.gov/recordsrequest.
Is this the official Bannock County website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.