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 October 2, 2026.
Gem County, Idaho, has about 22,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Gem 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 Gem 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: Gem County public records, Idaho arrest records, Idaho inmate search and Idaho criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Gem County
The Gem County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Gem County. It reported 273 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists one city in Gem County with a reporting agency of its own:
- Emmett, 8,803 residents: 80 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 Gem 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.
- Gem County Sheriff's Office: 273 for 2025, 214 for 2024, 222 for 2023, 185 for 2022, 113 for 2021 and 131 for 2020.
- Emmett: 80 for 2025, 161 for 2023, 186 for 2022, 178 for 2021, 154 for 2020 and 203 for 2019; 2024 is missing months.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 353 arrests that year. The one of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 273 in 2025 against 214 in 2024, up 28 percent.
Through April 2026, the two agencies with every month so far on file reported 133 arrests, against 48 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Gem County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Gem 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 28 people. Its rated capacity in 2019 was 52 beds, and it ran at 54 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 Gem County Sheriff's Office at gemcounty.org/departments_offices/county_sheriff/index.php (page title: Gem County, ID), phone (208) 365-3521, mony Email (208)477-2025 7:00am to 5:00pm, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 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 Gem County
For Gem County the place to look is the case index of the Gem County District Court, kept by the Clerk of the District Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date.
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at gemcounty.org/departments_offices/court_(magistrate-district)/index... (page title: Gem County, ID), phone (208) 365-4221, belongs to a lower court, not to the Gem County District Court.
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 Gem 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 Gem County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (208) 365-3521.
- An arrest in Emmett: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
- The court file of a case that was filed: in the Gem County District Court it is kept by the Clerk of the District Court. The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at gemcounty.org, phone (208) 365-4221, is a lower court's.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Bureau of Criminal Identification.
Cities in Gem County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for Emmett, the one city in Gem County.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Gem County District Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Gem County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Emmett (8,803)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Gem County each year?
The Gem County Sheriff's Office reported 273 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the two agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 353 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Gem County?
Ask the Gem County Sheriff's Office at (208) 365-3521; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at gemcounty.org.
Where are people arrested in Gem County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Gem County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Gem 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 Gem County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Gem 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 Gem 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.