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 on September 24, 2026.
Bingham County, Idaho, has about 51,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Bingham 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 Bingham 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: Bingham County public records, Idaho arrest records, Idaho inmate search and Idaho criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Bingham County
The Bingham County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Bingham County. It reported 721 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists two cities in Bingham County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Blackfoot, 13,224 residents: 689 arrests reported for 2025.
- Shelley, 5,262 residents: 127 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 Bingham County
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.
- Bingham County Sheriff's Office: 721 for 2025, 787 for 2024, 829 for 2023, 548 for 2021 and 399 for 2019; 2020 and 2022 are missing months.
- Blackfoot: 689 for 2025, 786 for 2024, 754 for 2023, 759 for 2022, 547 for 2021 and 520 for 2020.
- Shelley: 127 for 2025, 190 for 2024, 120 for 2023, 90 for 2022, 72 for 2021 and 90 for 2019; 2020 is missing months.
Together, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,537 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 1,537 in 2025 against 1,763 in 2024, down 13 percent.
Through August 2026, the three agencies with every month so far on file reported 1,003 arrests, against 1,048 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Bingham County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Bingham County 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 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 Bingham County
Whether someone was arrested in Bingham County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: 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 Bingham County
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 Bingham County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 208-785-8040.
- An arrest in Blackfoot or Shelley: 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 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.
Cities in Bingham County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for two of the five cities in Bingham County: Blackfoot and Shelley. Aberdeen, Firth and Basalt 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 Bingham County District Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Bingham County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Shelley (5,262)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Bingham County each year?
The Bingham County Sheriff's Office reported 721 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the three agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 1,537 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Bingham County?
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 Bingham County 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 Bingham 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 Bingham County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Bingham 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.
Is this the official Bingham 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.