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 2021. 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 25, 2026 and October 2, 2026.
Fulton, Missouri, in Callaway County, has about 13,000 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 Callaway 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: Fulton public records, Callaway County arrest records, Missouri arrest records and Missouri inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Fulton
The FBI lists Fulton with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Fulton Police Department. It reported 265 arrests for 2021, its latest complete year. 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 Callaway County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 493 arrests for 2025.
How Many Arrests Fulton 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.
- Fulton: 265 for 2021, 508 for 2020 and 762 for 2019.
Fulton's 265 arrests in 2021 were down 48 percent from 508 in 2020.
Across Callaway County, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 547 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Fulton Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Fulton is held at the county jail, whichever agency made the arrest, apart from the short stay some city departments' own holding cells allow; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked at all. The jail's record of each person held, with the charges, is a public record of the arrest, and the court file takes over from there.
On an average day in 2023 the jail held about 84 people, up from about 80 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 109 beds, and it ran at 77 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
A sentence of more than a year is served in state prison; the Missouri Department of Corrections lists its inmates at web.mo.gov/doc/offSearchWeb.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Fulton
For Fulton the place to look is Case.net, the Missouri courts' free statewide case search, which shows whether charges were filed.
Missouri is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: the open record search on the MACHS site lets anyone check convictions by name, through the Missouri State Highway Patrol Criminal Justice Information Services Division. 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 Fulton
An arrest report belongs to the agency whose officer wrote it, and that agency releases it, not the court or the jail. Under the Missouri Sunshine Law the agency must answer within 3 business days, and it may charge research time and copying.
- An arrest by the Fulton police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at fultonmo.gov/228/Open-Records-Sunshine-Law-Requests (page title: Open Records & Sunshine Law Requests | Fulton, MO), phone 573-592-3111, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
- An arrest by the Callaway County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The Callaway County guide covers every agency in the county: Callaway County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Fulton each year?
Fulton reported 265 arrests to the FBI for 2021, its latest full year.
Where are people arrested in Fulton booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Callaway County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Fulton?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Missouri State Highway Patrol Criminal Justice Information Services Division: the open record search on the MACHS site lets anyone check convictions by name. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Missouri Sunshine Law.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Fulton?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Fulton police for its own arrests, the Callaway County Sheriff's Office for the sheriff's. Under the Missouri Sunshine Law the answer is due within 3 business days.
Is this the official Fulton 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.