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 25, 2026.
Fridley, Minnesota, in Anoka County, has about 31,000 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 County Attorney files charges, a case in the Anoka County District 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: Fridley public records, Anoka County arrest records, Minnesota arrest records and Minnesota inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Fridley
The FBI lists Fridley with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Fridley Police Department. It reported 1,114 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 Anoka County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 539 arrests for 2025.
How Many Arrests Fridley 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.
- Fridley: 1,114 for 2025, 906 for 2024, 828 for 2023, 892 for 2022, 918 for 2021 and 857 for 2020.
Fridley's 1,114 arrests in 2025 were up 23 percent from 906 in 2024.
Through September 2026, Fridley reported 672 arrests, against 845 in the same months of 2025.
Across Anoka County, the 11 agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 5,432 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Fridley Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Fridley 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 2019 the jail held about 310 people. Its rated capacity in 2019 was 478 beds, and it ran at 65 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 Anoka County Sheriff's Office at anokacountymn.gov/443/Jail-Warrants (page title: Jail | Warrants | Anoka County, MN), phone 763-422-7500, 325 Jackson Street Anoka, MN 55303, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Fridley
Whether someone was arrested in Fridley, and what came of it, shows up in two places: Minnesota Court Records Online, the Minnesota Judicial Branch's free statewide case search, which shows whether charges were filed; the County Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at anokacountymn.gov/4175/County-Attorneys-Office, phone 763-324-5540).
Minnesota is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: the public criminal history search online is free and shows 15 years of convictions, through the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. 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 Fridley
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 Minnesota Government Data Practices Act the agency must answer promptly, within a reasonable time, and it may charge copying, and staff time for requests over 100 pages.
- An arrest by the Fridley police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at fridleymn.gov/Public-Safety/Police/Request-a-Police-ReportData (page title: Request a Police Report/Data | City of Fridley), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
- An arrest by the Anoka County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 763-422-7500.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the County Attorney, 763-324-5540, handles discovery for pending cases.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at anokacountymn.gov/4157/Request-Data (page title: Request Data | Anoka County, MN).
- Your own statewide record: a request to the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension.
The Anoka County guide covers every agency in the county: Anoka County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Fridley each year?
Fridley reported 1,114 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Fridley?
Ask the Anoka County Sheriff's Office at 763-422-7500; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at anokacountymn.gov/443/Jail-Warrants.
Where are people arrested in Fridley booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Anoka County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Fridley?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension: the public criminal history search online is free and shows 15 years of convictions. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Minnesota Government Data Practices Act.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Fridley?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Fridley police for its own arrests, the Anoka County Sheriff's Office for the sheriff's. Under the Minnesota Government Data Practices Act the answer is due promptly, within a reasonable time; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at anokacountymn.gov/4157/Request-Data.
Is this the official Fridley 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.