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 September 30, 2026.
Clark County, Indiana, has about 127,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Clark County Sheriff's Office and six 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 Clark 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: Clark County public records, Indiana arrest records, Indiana inmate search and Indiana criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Clark County
The Clark County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Clark County. It reported 567 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists six cities in Clark County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Jeffersonville, 52,912 residents: 968 arrests reported for 2024.
- Clarksville, 22,041 residents: 1,392 arrests reported for 2025.
- Sellersburg, 10,057 residents: 173 arrests reported for 2022.
- Charlestown, 8,559 residents: 453 arrests reported for 2024.
- Utica, 1,254 residents.
- Borden, 816 residents.
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 Clark 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.
- Jeffersonville: 968 for 2024, 1,090 for 2023, 922 for 2022, 994 for 2021 and 2,306 for 2019; 2020 is missing months.
- Clark County Sheriff's Office: 567 for 2025, 552 for 2024, 530 for 2023, 434 for 2022, 395 for 2021 and 319 for 2020.
- Charlestown: 453 for 2024, 223 for 2022 and 197 for 2021; 2023 is missing months.
- Sellersburg: 173 for 2022 and 295 for 2019; 2020 and 2021 are missing months.
- Clarksville: 1,392 for 2025, 1,341 for 2021 and 1,780 for 2019; 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024 are missing months.
Together, the four agencies with all twelve months of 2022 on file reported 1,752 arrests that year. The three of them with both 2022 and 2021 complete reported 1,579 in 2022 against 1,586 in 2021, down 0.4 percent.
Clarksville and Utica reported only part of 2022 (11 months and 6 months) and are left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Clark County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Clark 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 440 people, down from about 620 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023, the last year with a capacity figure, was 694 beds, and it ran at 69 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 Indiana Department of Correction lists its inmates at offenderlocator.idoc.in.gov/idoc-ofs-1.0.2/ofs.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Clark County
An arrest in Clark County can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the case index of the Clark Circuit and Superior Courts, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at clarkcounty.in.gov/~ccounty/index.php/clark-county-indiana-resident...); the Prosecuting Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at clarkcounty.in.gov/index.php/clark-county-indiana-government/clark-..., phone 812.285.6264).
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 Clark County
The report of an arrest is released by the agency that made it; the jail and the court hold their own records of the same event, but not the report. 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 Clark County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Jeffersonville, Clarksville, Sellersburg, Charlestown, Utica or Borden: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the Prosecuting Attorney, 812.285.6264, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Clark Circuit and Superior Courts, through the court records page at clarkcounty.in.gov.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Clark County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for every one of the six cities in Clark County: Jeffersonville, Clarksville, Sellersburg, Charlestown, Utica and Borden.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Clark Circuit and Superior Courts.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Clark County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Jeffersonville (52,912)
- Sellersburg (10,057)
- Charlestown (8,559)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Clark County each year?
Jeffersonville reported 968 arrests to the FBI for 2024. For 2022, the latest year most of the agencies in Clark County sent in full, the four with every month on file reported 1,752 between them.
Where are people arrested in Clark County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Clark County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Clark 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 Clark County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Clark 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 Clark 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.