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.
East Grand Rapids, Michigan, in Kent County, has about 12,000 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 Prosecuting Attorney files charges, a case in the Kent County Circuit 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: East Grand Rapids public records, Kent County arrest records, Michigan arrest records and Michigan inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in East Grand Rapids
The FBI lists East Grand Rapids with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as East Grand Rapids Police Department. It reported 83 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 Kent County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 4,154 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Kent County: the Kent County State Police (state police); Grand Rapids Community College (campus police); Gerald R. Ford International Airport (other).
How Many Arrests East Grand Rapids 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.
- East Grand Rapids: 83 for 2025, 157 for 2024, 81 for 2023, 58 for 2022, 40 for 2021 and 139 for 2019; 2020 is missing months.
East Grand Rapids's 83 arrests in 2025 were down 47 percent from 157 in 2024.
Through September 2026, East Grand Rapids reported 59 arrests, against 78 in the same months of 2025.
Across Kent County, the nine agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 13,381 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in East Grand Rapids Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in East Grand Rapids 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 940 people, down from about 1,100 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023, the last year with a capacity figure, was 1,477 beds, and it ran at 63 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 Kent County Sheriff's Office at eisjailviewer.kentcountymi.gov (page title: Web Jail Viewer), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.
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 person sentenced to prison serves the sentence in a facility of the Michigan Department of Corrections, whose inmate locator is at mdocweb.state.mi.us/otis2.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in East Grand Rapids
Whether someone was arrested in East Grand Rapids, and what came of it, shows up in three places: the custody page of the Kent County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Kent County Circuit Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at kentcountymi.gov/1036/Search-Court-Records); the Prosecuting Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at kentcountymi.gov/1103/Prosecutors-Office, phone 616-632-6710).
Statewide, MiCOURT Case Search is the Michigan courts' statewide case search; not every court has joined.
Michigan is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: ICHAT lets anyone search public criminal history by name, for $10 a search, through the Michigan 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 East Grand Rapids
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 Michigan Freedom of Information Act the agency must answer within 5 business days, with a 10-day extension, and it may charge labor and copying, at rates the law caps.
- An arrest by the East Grand Rapids police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at eastgrmi.gov/192/Records-Reports-Gun-Permits (page title: Background Checks, Report Copies & Gun Permits | East Grand Rapids, MI), phone 616-632-6200, 770 Lakeside Drive SE East Grand Rapids, MI 49506, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Kent County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the Prosecuting Attorney, 616-632-6710, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Kent County Circuit Court, through the court records page at kentcountymi.gov/1036/Search-Court-Records.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at kentcountymi.gov (page title: FOIA (Public Record Requests) | Kent County, MI).
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The Kent County guide covers every agency in the county: Kent County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in East Grand Rapids each year?
East Grand Rapids reported 83 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in East Grand Rapids?
Look on the custody page of the Kent County Sheriff's Office at eisjailviewer.kentcountymi.gov. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in East Grand Rapids booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Kent County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in East Grand Rapids?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Michigan State Police: ICHAT lets anyone search public criminal history by name, for $10. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Michigan Freedom of Information Act.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in East Grand Rapids?
From the agency that made the arrest: the East Grand Rapids police for its own arrests, the Kent County Sheriff's Office for the sheriff's. Under the Michigan Freedom of Information Act the answer is due within 5 business days, with a 10-day extension; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at kentcountymi.gov.
Is this the official East Grand Rapids 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.