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.
Boundary County, Idaho, has about 14,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Boundary County Sheriff's Office and one city agency. 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 Boundary 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: Boundary County public records, Idaho arrest records, Idaho inmate search and Idaho criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Boundary County
The Boundary County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Boundary County. It reported 112 arrests for 2025.
One city in Boundary County reports its arrests to the FBI separately:
- Bonners Ferry, 2,788 residents: 117 arrests reported for 2024.
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 Boundary 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.
- Bonners Ferry: 117 for 2024, 169 for 2023, 152 for 2022, 178 for 2021, 141 for 2020 and 110 for 2019.
- Boundary County Sheriff's Office: 112 for 2025, 54 for 2023, 66 for 2022, 71 for 2021 and 66 for 2019; 2020 and 2024 are missing months.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2023 on file reported 223 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2023 and 2022 complete reported 223 in 2023 against 218 in 2022, up 2.3 percent.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Boundary County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Boundary 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 2019 the jail held about 25 people. Its rated capacity in 2019 was 24 beds, and it ran at 104 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 Boundary County Sheriff's Office at boundarysheriff.org/detention- (page title: Sheriff's Office Boundary County, ID), 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 Boundary County
An arrest in Boundary County can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the case index of the Boundary County District Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at boundarycountyid.org/departments/district-court, phone 208-267-5504); the Prosecuting Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at boundarycountyid.org/departments/prosecutor, phone 208-267-3151).
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 Boundary 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 Boundary County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Bonners Ferry: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the Prosecuting Attorney, 208-267-3151, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Boundary County District Court, through the court records page at boundarycountyid.org, phone 208-267-5504.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Bureau of Criminal Identification.
Cities in Boundary County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for one of the two cities in Boundary County: Bonners Ferry. Moyie Springs has 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 Boundary County District Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Boundary County each year?
Bonners Ferry reported 117 arrests to the FBI for 2024. For 2023, the latest year most of the agencies in Boundary County sent in full, the two with every month on file reported 223 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Boundary County?
Ask the Boundary County Sheriff's Office; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at boundarysheriff.org/detention-.
Where are people arrested in Boundary County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Boundary County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Boundary 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 Boundary County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Boundary 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 Boundary 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.