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 September 26, 2026.
Brunswick, Maryland, in Frederick County, has about 9,000 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 State's Attorney files charges, a case in the Circuit Court for Frederick County. 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: Brunswick public records, Frederick County arrest records, Maryland arrest records and Maryland inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Brunswick
The FBI lists Brunswick with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Brunswick Police Department. It reported 30 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.
Outside the city, the Frederick County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 2,672 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Frederick County: the Frederick County State Police (state police).
How Many Arrests Brunswick 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.
- Brunswick: 30 for 2025, 14 for 2024, 35 for 2023, 37 for 2022, 67 for 2020 and 145 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
Through June 2026, Brunswick reported 19 arrests, against 16 in the same months of 2025.
Across Frederick County, the four agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 5,255 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Brunswick Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Brunswick 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 280 people, down from about 300 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023, the last year with a capacity figure, was 412 beds, and it ran at 75 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 Frederick County Sheriff's Office at frederickcountymd.gov/677/Sheriff-Adult-Detention?NID=677 (page title: Sheriff 's Office | Frederick County MD), 110 Airport Drive East Frederick, MD 21701, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Brunswick
Whether someone was arrested in Brunswick, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Circuit Court for Frederick County, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at mdcourts.gov/courtsdirectory/frederick, phone 301-600-1976); the State's Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at frederickcountymd.gov/m/directory/department?did=14, phone 301-600-1523).
Statewide, Maryland Judiciary Case Search is the free statewide case search of every Maryland court.
Maryland does not let the public search another person's statewide criminal history. The record kept by the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, Criminal Justice Information System goes to the person it belongs to and to employers and agencies the law authorizes; for everyone else the court's own case index is the public record of an arrest that led to a charge.
Getting a Copy of an Arrest Record in Brunswick
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 Maryland Public Information Act the agency must answer within 30 days, with a denial due within 10 working days, and it may charge staff time after the first two hours, plus copying.
- An arrest by the Brunswick police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at brunswickmd.gov/ (page title: Police Services | Police | Brunswick, MD), phone 301-600-4151, 110 Airport Drive East, Frederick, MD 21701, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Frederick County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the State's Attorney, 301-600-1523, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Circuit Court for Frederick County, through the court records page at mdcourts.gov/courtsdirectory/frederick, phone 301-600-1976.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at frederickcosheriff.com/reports-pia-crash (page title: Frederick County Sheriff's Office, MD | Public Information Requests).
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the CJIS Central Repository.
The Frederick County guide covers every agency in the county: Frederick County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Brunswick each year?
Brunswick reported 30 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Brunswick?
Ask the Frederick County Sheriff's Office; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at frederickcountymd.gov.
Where are people arrested in Brunswick booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Frederick County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Brunswick?
The court files of criminal cases in the Circuit Court for Frederick County are public and can be looked up through the court. The statewide criminal history kept by the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, Criminal Justice Information System is not public; you can get your own. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Maryland Public Information Act.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Brunswick?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Brunswick police for its own arrests, the Frederick County Sheriff's Office for the sheriff's. Under the Maryland Public Information Act the answer is due within 30 days, with a denial due within 10 working days; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at frederickcosheriff.com/reports-pia-crash.
Is this the official Brunswick 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.