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.
Oneida County, Idaho, has about 5,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Oneida 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 Oneida 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: Oneida County public records, Idaho arrest records, Idaho inmate search and Idaho criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Oneida County
The Oneida County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Oneida County. It reported 77 arrests for 2025.
How Many Arrests The Oneida 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.
- Oneida County Sheriff's Office: 77 for 2025, 96 for 2024, 98 for 2023, 78 for 2022, 66 for 2021 and 35 for 2020.
The Oneida County Sheriff's Office's 77 arrests in 2025 were down 20 percent from 96 in 2024.
Through May 2026, Oneida County Sheriff's Office reported 30 arrests, against 27 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Oneida County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Oneida 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 2023 the jail held about 13 people, up from about 12 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 16 beds, and it ran at 86 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
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 Oneida County
An arrest in Oneida County can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the case index of the Oneida County District Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at oneidaid.us/departments/courts/index.php, phone (208) 766-4116); the Prosecuting Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at oneidaid.us/departments/prosecuting_attorney.php, phone (208) 766-4116).
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 Oneida 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 Oneida County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the Prosecuting Attorney, (208) 766-4116, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Oneida County District Court, through the court records page at oneidaid.us/departments/courts/index.php, phone (208) 766-4116.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at oneidaid.us (page title: Public Records Request).
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Bureau of Criminal Identification.
Cities in Oneida County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists no city in Oneida 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 Oneida County District Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Oneida County each year?
The Oneida County Sheriff's Office reported 77 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
Where are people arrested in Oneida County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Oneida County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Oneida 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 Oneida County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Oneida 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; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at oneidaid.us.
Is this the official Oneida 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.