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 1, 2026.
Valley County, Idaho, has about 13,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Valley 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 Valley 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: Valley County public records, Idaho arrest records, Idaho inmate search and Idaho criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Valley County
The Valley County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Valley County. It reported 161 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists one city in Valley County with a reporting agency of its own:
- McCall, 4,104 residents: 69 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 Valley 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.
- Valley County Sheriff's Office: 161 for 2025, 176 for 2024, 126 for 2023, 94 for 2022, 140 for 2021 and 133 for 2020.
- McCall: 69 for 2025, 95 for 2024, 92 for 2023, 126 for 2022, 86 for 2021 and 85 for 2020.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 230 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 230 in 2025 against 271 in 2024, down 15 percent.
Through July 2026, the two agencies with every month so far on file reported 179 arrests, against 142 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Valley County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Valley 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 42 people. Its rated capacity in 2019 was 65 beds, and it ran at 65 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 Valley County Sheriff's Office at valleycountyid.gov/departments/Jail (page title: Official Website of Valley County, Idaho | Detention Facility), phone (208) 382-7168, 911 Location 107 W. Spring Street Cascade, ID 83611, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on October 1, 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 Valley County
Whether someone was arrested in Valley County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Valley County District Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at valleycountyid.gov/departments/CourtClerksOffice, phone (208) 382-7178); the Prosecuting Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at valleycountyid.gov/departments/ProsecutorsOffice, phone (208) 382-7120).
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 Valley 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 Valley County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (208) 382-7168.
- An arrest in McCall: 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) 382-7120, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Valley County District Court, through the court records page at valleycountyid.gov, phone (208) 382-7178.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Bureau of Criminal Identification.
Cities in Valley County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for one of the three cities in Valley County: McCall. Cascade and Donnelly 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 Valley County District Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Valley County each year?
The Valley County Sheriff's Office reported 161 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the two agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 230 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Valley County?
Ask the Valley County Sheriff's Office at (208) 382-7168; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at valleycountyid.gov/departments/Jail.
Where are people arrested in Valley County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Valley County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Valley 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 Valley County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Valley 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 Valley 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.