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.
Gooding County, Idaho, has about 16,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Gooding County Sheriff's Office and three 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 Gooding 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: Gooding County public records, Idaho arrest records, Idaho inmate search and Idaho criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Gooding County
The Gooding County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Gooding County. It reported 78 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists three cities in Gooding County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Gooding, 3,825 residents: 84 arrests reported for 2025.
- Wendell, 3,032 residents: 71 arrests reported for 2025.
- Hagerman, 991 residents: 2 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 Gooding 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.
- Gooding: 84 for 2025, 87 for 2024, 80 for 2023, 79 for 2022, 76 for 2021 and 82 for 2019; 2020 is missing months.
- Gooding County Sheriff's Office: 78 for 2025, 71 for 2024, 44 for 2023, 42 for 2022, 64 for 2021 and 61 for 2020.
- Wendell: 71 for 2025, 88 for 2024, 55 for 2023, 25 for 2022, 19 for 2020 and 20 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
- Hagerman: 2 for 2024, 1 for 2023, 0 for 2022, 0 for 2020 and 1 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
Together, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 233 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 233 in 2025 against 246 in 2024, down 5.3 percent.
Through August 2026, the three agencies with every month so far on file reported 96 arrests, against 153 in the same months of 2025.
Hagerman reported only part of 2025 (11 months) and is left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Gooding County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Gooding 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 2019 the jail held about 26 people. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the jail page of the Gooding County Sheriff's Office at goodingcounty.org/157/Sheriff (page title: SHERIFF | Gooding County, ID), phone 844-724-2076, 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 Gooding County
An arrest in Gooding County can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the case index of the Gooding County District Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at goodingcounty.org/154/District-Court, phone 208-934-4861); the Prosecuting Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at goodingcounty.org/156/Prosecutor, phone 208-934-4493).
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 Gooding 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 Gooding County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 844-724-2076.
- An arrest in Gooding, Wendell or Hagerman: 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, 208-934-4493, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Gooding County District Court, through the court records page at goodingcounty.org/154/District-Court, phone 208-934-4861.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Bureau of Criminal Identification.
Cities in Gooding County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for three of the four cities in Gooding County: Gooding, Wendell and Hagerman. Bliss 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 Gooding County District Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Gooding County each year?
Gooding reported 84 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the three agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 233 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Gooding County?
Ask the Gooding County Sheriff's Office at 844-724-2076; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at goodingcounty.org/157/Sheriff.
Where are people arrested in Gooding County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Gooding County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Gooding 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 Gooding County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Gooding 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 Gooding 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.