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.
Power County, Idaho, has about 8,400 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Power 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 Power 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: Power County public records, Idaho arrest records, Idaho inmate search and Idaho criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Power County
The Power County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Power County. It reported 180 arrests for 2023, its latest complete year.
One city in Power County reports its arrests to the FBI separately:
- American Falls, 4,863 residents: 78 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 Power 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.
- Power County Sheriff's Office: 180 for 2023, 124 for 2022, 91 for 2021, 88 for 2020 and 91 for 2019.
- American Falls: 78 for 2025, 75 for 2024, 94 for 2023, 142 for 2022, 139 for 2021 and 112 for 2020.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2023 on file reported 274 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2023 and 2022 complete reported 274 in 2023 against 266 in 2022, up 3 percent.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Power County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Power 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 2021 the jail held about 8 people, down from about 12 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 12 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 custody page of the Power County Sheriff's Office at jail.powercounty.gov (page title: List Current Bookings), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 2026.
That page is the place to look for someone who was booked recently; a person cited and released at the scene, or held only a few hours by a city department, will not be on it.
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 Power County
Whether someone was arrested in Power County, and what came of it, shows up in three places: the custody page of the Power County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; iCourt Portal, the Idaho courts' free statewide case search, which shows whether charges were filed; the Prosecuting Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at powercounty.gov/295/Prosecuting-Attorneys-Office, phone 208-226-2311).
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 Power 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 Power County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in American Falls: 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, 208-226-2311, handles discovery for pending cases.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at powercounty.gov/313/Records-Request (page title: Records Request | Power County, ID).
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Bureau of Criminal Identification.
Cities in Power County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for one of the two cities in Power County: American Falls. Rockland 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 Power County District Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Power County each year?
The Power County Sheriff's Office reported 180 arrests to the FBI for 2023, and the two agencies with every month of 2023 on file reported 274 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Power County?
Look on the custody page of the Power County Sheriff's Office at jail.powercounty.gov. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Power County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Power County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Power 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 Power County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Power 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 powercounty.gov/313/Records-Request.
Is this the official Power 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.