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.
Latah County, Idaho, has about 42,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Latah 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 Latah 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: Latah County public records, Idaho arrest records, Idaho inmate search and Idaho criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Latah County
The Latah County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Latah County. It reported 207 arrests for 2025.
One city in Latah County reports its arrests to the FBI separately:
- Moscow, 26,894 residents: 477 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 Latah 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.
- Moscow: 477 for 2025, 468 for 2024, 483 for 2023, 421 for 2022, 504 for 2021 and 469 for 2019; 2020 is missing months.
- Latah County Sheriff's Office: 207 for 2025, 265 for 2024, 287 for 2023, 287 for 2022, 220 for 2021 and 208 for 2020.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 684 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 684 in 2025 against 733 in 2024, down 6.7 percent.
Through August 2026, the two agencies with every month so far on file reported 408 arrests, against 479 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Latah County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Latah 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 30 people. Its rated capacity in 2019 was 39 beds, and it ran at 77 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 Latah County Sheriff's Office at latahcountyid.gov/sheriff/detention (page title: Detention), phone 866-516-0115, Wednesday from 6:30 to 9:00 PM, 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 Latah County
An arrest in Latah County can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the case index of the Latah County District Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at latahcountyid.gov/district_court, phone (208) 883-2255); the Prosecuting Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at latahcountyid.gov/prosecutor, phone 208-883-7003).
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 Latah 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 Latah County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 866-516-0115.
- An arrest in Moscow: 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, 208-883-7003, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Latah County District Court, through the court records page at latahcountyid.gov/district_court, phone (208) 883-2255.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Bureau of Criminal Identification.
Cities in Latah County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for one of the nine cities in Latah County: Moscow. Genesee, Troy, Potlatch, Juliaetta, Deary, Kendrick, Onaway and Bovill 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 Latah County District Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Latah County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Moscow (26,894)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Latah County each year?
Moscow reported 477 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the two agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 684 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Latah County?
Ask the Latah County Sheriff's Office at 866-516-0115; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at latahcountyid.gov/sheriff/detention.
Where are people arrested in Latah County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Latah County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Latah 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 Latah County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Latah 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 Latah 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.