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 23, 2026 and October 4, 2026.
Brown County, Indiana, has about 16,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Brown 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 Brown Circuit and Superior Courts. 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: Brown County public records, Indiana arrest records, Indiana inmate search and Indiana criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Brown County
The Brown County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Brown County. It reported 89 arrests for 2025.
How Many Arrests The Brown 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.
- Brown County Sheriff's Office: 89 for 2025 and 123 for 2024.
The Brown County Sheriff's Office's 89 arrests in 2025 were down 28 percent from 123 in 2024.
Through July 2026, Brown County Sheriff's Office reported 40 arrests, against 51 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Brown County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Brown 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 2024 the jail held about 43 people, up from about 42 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 104 beds, and it ran at 40 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 Brown County Sheriff's Office at browncounty-in.gov/237/Jail (page title: Jail | Brown County, IN), phone 877-998-5678, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on October 4, 2026.
A person sentenced to prison serves the sentence in a facility of the Indiana Department of Correction, whose inmate locator is at offenderlocator.idoc.in.gov/idoc-ofs-1.0.2/ofs.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Brown County
Whether someone was arrested in Brown County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Brown Circuit and Superior Courts, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at in.gov/courts/local/brown-county); the Prosecuting Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at browncounty-in.gov/170/Prosecutor, phone 812-988-5470).
Statewide, mycase.IN.gov is the Indiana courts' free statewide case search.
Indiana is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: the Limited Criminal History search is open to anyone online, through the Indiana State Police. 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 Brown 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 Indiana Access to Public Records Act the agency must answer within 24 hours for a request made in person and 7 days for one sent by mail or email, and it may charge a copy fee set by the agency, within statutory limits.
- An arrest by the Brown County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 877-998-5678.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the Prosecuting Attorney, 812-988-5470, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Brown Circuit and Superior Courts, through the court records page at in.gov/courts/local/brown-county.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Brown County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists no city in Brown 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 Brown Circuit and Superior Courts.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Brown County each year?
The Brown County Sheriff's Office reported 89 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Brown County?
Ask the Brown County Sheriff's Office at 877-998-5678; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at browncounty-in.gov/237/Jail.
Where are people arrested in Brown County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Brown County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Brown County?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Indiana State Police: the Limited Criminal History search is open to anyone online. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Indiana Access to Public Records Act.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Brown County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Brown County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. Under the Indiana Access to Public Records Act the answer is due within 24 hours for a request made in person and 7 days for one sent by mail or email.
Is this the official Brown 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.