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 28, 2026.
Hampstead, Maryland, in Carroll County, has about 6,300 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 Carroll 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: Hampstead public records, Carroll County arrest records, Maryland arrest records and Maryland inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Hampstead
The FBI lists Hampstead with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Hampstead Police Department. It reported 1 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 Carroll County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 462 arrests for 2022.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Carroll County: the Carroll County State Police (state police).
How Many Arrests Hampstead 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.
- Hampstead: 1 for 2025, 0 for 2024, 7 for 2023, 10 for 2022, 73 for 2020 and 95 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
Across Carroll County, the five agencies with all twelve months of 2022 on file reported 693 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Hampstead Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Hampstead 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 190 people, up from about 180 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 185 beds, and it ran at 99 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 Carroll County Sheriff's Office at sheriff.carrollcountymd.gov (page title: Carroll County Sheriff’s Office), phone 410-386-2920, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 28, 2026.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Hampstead
An arrest in Hampstead can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the case index of the Circuit Court for Carroll 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/carroll, phone 410-386-8710); the State's Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at carrollcountymd.gov/government/directory/county-attorney).
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 Hampstead
An arrest report belongs to the agency whose officer wrote it, and that agency releases it, not the court or the jail. 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 Hampstead police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at hampsteadmd.gov/?SEC=EB71A95D-B0F4-4D8C-BA94-31D49E375479 (page title: Police Records | Town of Hampstead), phone 410-239-8954, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Carroll County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 410-386-2920.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the State's Attorney handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Circuit Court for Carroll County, through the court records page at courts.state.md.us/clerks/carroll, phone 410-386-8710.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the CJIS Central Repository.
The Carroll County guide covers every agency in the county: Carroll County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Hampstead each year?
Hampstead reported 1 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Hampstead?
Ask the Carroll County Sheriff's Office at 410-386-2920; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at sheriff.carrollcountymd.gov.
Where are people arrested in Hampstead booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Carroll County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Hampstead?
The court files of criminal cases in the Circuit Court for Carroll 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 Hampstead?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Hampstead police for its own arrests, the Carroll 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.
Is this the official Hampstead 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.