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 25, 2026 and October 9, 2026.
Clark County, Idaho, has 794 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Clark County Sheriff's Office. 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 Clark 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: Clark County public records, Idaho arrest records, Idaho inmate search and Idaho criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Clark County
The Clark County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Clark County. It reported 9 arrests for 2025.
How Many Arrests The Clark County Sheriff's Office 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.
- Clark County Sheriff's Office: 9 for 2025, 41 for 2022, 92 for 2021, 48 for 2020 and 52 for 2019; 2023 and 2024 are missing months.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Clark County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Clark 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 2 people. Its rated capacity in 2019 was 6 beds, and it ran at 33 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 Clark County Sheriff's Office at icrmp.org/ (page title: Clark County Sheriff's Office | Idaho Counties Risk Management Program), 224 Main St Dubois, ID 83423, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on October 9, 2026.
A sentence of more than a year is served in state prison; the Idaho Department of Correction lists its inmates at idoc.idaho.gov/content/prisons/resident-client-search.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Clark County
For Clark County the place to look is the case index of the Clark County District Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at courtdata.idaho.gov/Charge, phone (208) 334-2210).
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 Clark 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 Clark County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Clark County District Court, through the court records page at courtdata.idaho.gov/Charge, phone (208) 334-2210.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Bureau of Criminal Identification.
The other Clark County guides go further: warrants, criminal records, court records, police reports, DUI and divorce records.
Cities in Clark County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists no city in Clark County with an arrest reporting agency of its own; the counts above are the county agencies'.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Clark County District Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Clark County each year?
The Clark County Sheriff's Office reported 9 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Clark County?
Ask the Clark County Sheriff's Office; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at icrmp.org/.
Where are people arrested in Clark County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Clark County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Clark 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 Clark County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Clark 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 Clark 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.