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.
Daviess County, Indiana, has about 34,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Daviess 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 Daviess 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: Daviess County public records, Indiana arrest records, Indiana inmate search and Indiana criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Daviess County
The Daviess County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Daviess County. It reported 312 arrests for 2021, its latest complete year.
The FBI lists one city in Daviess County with a reporting agency of its own:
- Washington, 12,881 residents: 517 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 Washington 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.
- Washington: 517 for 2025, 654 for 2024, 706 for 2023, 571 for 2022, 684 for 2021 and 596 for 2020.
- Daviess County Sheriff's Office: 312 for 2021.
Washington's 517 arrests in 2025 were down 21 percent from 654 in 2024.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Daviess County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Daviess 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 2024 the jail held about 170 people, down from about 200 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023, the last year with a capacity figure, was 240 beds, and it ran at 66 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 Daviess County Sheriff's Office at daviess.org/1264/Jail-Command (page title: Jail Command | Daviess County, IN), 101 NE 4th Street Washington, IN 47501, 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 Daviess County
Whether someone was arrested in Daviess County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Daviess 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/daviess-county); the Prosecuting Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at daviess.org/1243/Prosecutors-Office, phone 812-254-8673).
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 Daviess 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 Daviess County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Washington: 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, 812-254-8673, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Daviess Circuit and Superior Courts, through the court records page at in.gov/courts/local/daviess-county.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Daviess County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for one of the seven cities in Daviess County: Washington. Odon, Montgomery, Elnora, Plainville, Cannelburg and Alfordsville 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 Daviess Circuit and Superior Courts.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Daviess County each year?
Washington reported 517 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Daviess County?
Ask the Daviess County Sheriff's Office; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at daviess.org/1264/Jail-Command.
Where are people arrested in Daviess County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Daviess County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Daviess 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 Daviess County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Daviess 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 Daviess 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.