Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones the agency reported to the FBI, through 2025. 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 2, 2026.
Braintree Town, Massachusetts, in Norfolk County, has about 39,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and its arrests are reported to the FBI by an agency of its own. An arrest in the city leaves the same records whoever makes it: the arresting agency's report, the record of anyone held at the county jail, and, if the District Attorney files charges, a case in the Norfolk County Superior Court. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it, with the arrest counts the agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies and common questions.
Related guides: Braintree Town public records, Norfolk County arrest records, Massachusetts arrest records and Massachusetts inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Braintree Town
The FBI lists Braintree Town with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Braintree Police Department. It reported 510 arrests for 2025. A city is listed separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Norfolk County: Wellesley College, Massachusetts Bay Community College, Curry College, Babson College and one more (campus police); the Norfolk County State Police (state police); the Norfolk County Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (state agency).
How Many Arrests Braintree Town 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.
- Braintree Town: 510 for 2025, 436 for 2024, 566 for 2023 and 503 for 2019; 2020, 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
Braintree Town's 510 arrests in 2025 were up 17 percent from 436 in 2024.
Through May 2026, Braintree Town reported 219 arrests, against 215 in the same months of 2025.
Across Norfolk County, the 28 agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 6,189 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Braintree Town Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Braintree Town 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 2025 the jail held about 330 people, down from about 490 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023, the last year with a capacity figure, was 302 beds, and it ran at 113 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 sheriff's office at norfolksheriffsoffice.com (page title: Norfolk Jail Roster Lookup, VA, Inmate Search), a site that blocks automated checks (HTTP 403), so open it in a browser.
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 sentence of more than a year is served in state prison; the Massachusetts Department of Correction lists its inmates at mass.gov/how-to/find-someone-housed-in-a-massachusetts-prison.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Braintree Town
An arrest in Braintree Town can be traced in three places, depending on where the case stands: the custody page of the sheriff's office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Norfolk County Superior Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at mass.gov/locations/norfolk-county-superior-court, phone (781) 326-1600); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at nfkda.com/prosecution.html).
Statewide, masscourts.org is the Massachusetts Trial Court's free online case search.
Massachusetts is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: open access iCORI lets anyone request limited conviction information by name, for $25 a search, through the Department of Criminal Justice Information Services. 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 Braintree Town
An arrest report belongs to the agency whose officer wrote it, and that agency releases it, not the court or the jail. Under the Massachusetts Public Records Law the agency must answer within 10 business days, and it may charge staff time after the first four hours for towns and two for the state, plus copying.
- An arrest by the Braintree Town police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at braintreema.gov/DocumentCenter/View/2040/Public_Records (page title: BRAINTREE POLICE DEPARTMENT Policy and Procedure PUBLIC RECORDS REQUESTS AND), phone 781-794-8611, Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. until 4 p.m., which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Norfolk County Superior Court, through the court records page at mass.gov, phone (781) 326-1600.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at norfolkmass.gov (page title: Welcome to Town of Norfolk, MA).
- Your own statewide record: a personal CORI request, free once a year online.
The Norfolk County guide covers every agency in the county: Norfolk County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Braintree Town each year?
Braintree Town reported 510 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
Where are people arrested in Braintree Town booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Braintree Town?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Department of Criminal Justice Information Services: open access iCORI lets anyone request limited conviction information by name, for $25. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Massachusetts Public Records Law.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Braintree Town?
From the agency that made the arrest: the sheriff's office or the city's police. Under the Massachusetts Public Records Law the answer is due within 10 business days; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at norfolkmass.gov.
Is this the official Braintree Town website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official city, county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.