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.
Payette County, Idaho, has about 28,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Payette County Sheriff's Office and two 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 Payette 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: Payette County public records, Idaho arrest records, Idaho inmate search and Idaho criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Payette County
The Payette County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Payette County. It reported 462 arrests for 2025.
Arrests inside two of the county's cities are reported to the FBI by an agency of the city's own, listed here with the Census population and what each reported:
- Payette, 8,754 residents: 394 arrests reported for 2025.
- Fruitland, 7,078 residents: 302 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 Payette 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.
- Payette County Sheriff's Office: 462 for 2025, 503 for 2024, 611 for 2023, 542 for 2022, 556 for 2021 and 509 for 2020.
- Payette: 394 for 2025, 394 for 2024, 329 for 2023, 304 for 2022, 401 for 2021 and 431 for 2020.
- Fruitland: 302 for 2025, 330 for 2024, 387 for 2023, 370 for 2022, 501 for 2021 and 269 for 2019; 2020 is missing months.
Together, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,158 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 1,158 in 2025 against 1,227 in 2024, down 5.6 percent.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Payette County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Payette 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 72 people. Its rated capacity in 2019 was 72 beds, and it ran at 100 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 Payette County Sheriff's Office at payettecounty.org/sheriff-s-department-contacts/22-jail-inmate-records (page title: Jail/Inmate Records), phone (208) 642-6006, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 2026.
A person sentenced to prison serves the sentence in a facility of the Idaho Department of Correction, whose inmate locator is at idoc.idaho.gov/content/prisons/resident-client-search.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Payette County
Whether someone was arrested in Payette County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Payette County District Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at payettecounty.org/county-clerk-contacts, phone (208) 642-6000); the Prosecuting Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at payettecounty.org/prosecuting-attorney, phone (208) 642-6096).
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 Payette 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 Payette County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (208) 642-6006.
- An arrest in Payette or Fruitland: 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) 642-6096, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Payette County District Court, through the court records page at payettecounty.org/county-clerk-contacts, phone (208) 642-6000.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at payettecounty.org (page title: Public Records Request (Sheriff's Office) | Download Summary).
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Bureau of Criminal Identification.
Cities in Payette County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for two of the three cities in Payette County: Payette and Fruitland. New Plymouth 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 Payette County District Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Payette County each year?
The Payette County Sheriff's Office reported 462 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the three agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 1,158 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Payette County?
Ask the Payette County Sheriff's Office at (208) 642-6006; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at payettecounty.org.
Where are people arrested in Payette County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Payette County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Payette 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 Payette County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Payette 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 payettecounty.org.
Is this the official Payette 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.