Easton Arrest Records: Who Makes Arrests, Where People Are Booked and How to Get the Report

Who Makes Arrests in Easton

The FBI lists Easton with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Easton Police Department. It reported 344 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 Talbot County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 192 arrests for 2025.

The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Talbot County: the Talbot County State Police (state police).

How Many Arrests Easton Reports

Each agency reports its arrests to the FBI by month, and the FBI publishes them 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.

• Easton: 344 for 2025, 441 for 2024, 398 for 2023, 367 for 2021, 607 for 2020 and 764 for 2019; 2022 is missing months.

Easton's 344 arrests in 2025 were down 22 percent from 441 in 2024.

Through July 2026, Easton reported 207 arrests, against 212 in the same months of 2025.

Across Talbot County, the four agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 544 arrests between them.

Booking: Where People Arrested in Easton Are Held

The county jail is where a person arrested in Easton 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 67 people, down from about 71 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 148 beds, and it ran at 48 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.

How to Find Out About an Arrest in Easton

An arrest in Easton can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the case index of the Circuit Court for Talbot County, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at courts.state.md.us/clerks/talbot/records, phone 410-822-2611); the State's Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at talbotcountymd.gov/states_attorney, phone 410-770-8060).

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 Easton

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 Easton police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at eastonmd.gov/200/Obtain-a-Police-or-Accident-Report (page title: Obtain a Police or Accident Report | Easton, MD), phone 410-763-6125, 106 W Dover Street Easton, MD 21601, Monday through Friday 8:30 am to 4 pm, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
• An arrest by the Talbot County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
• A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the State's Attorney, 410-770-8060, handles discovery for pending cases.
• The court file of a case that was filed: the Circuit Court for Talbot County, through the court records page at courts.state.md.us/clerks/talbot/records, phone 410-822-2611.
• Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at talbotcountymd.gov/pia (page title: Public Information Act Requests | Talbot County, Maryland).
• Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the CJIS Central Repository.

The Talbot County guide covers every agency in the county: Talbot County arrest records.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many arrests are made in Easton each year?

Easton reported 344 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.

Where are people arrested in Easton booked?

Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Talbot County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.

Are arrest records public in Easton?

The court files of criminal cases in the Circuit Court for Talbot 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 Easton?

From the agency that made the arrest: the Easton police for its own arrests, the Talbot 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 talbotcountymd.gov/pia.

Is this the official Easton 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.