Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones each agency reported to the FBI, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026. 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 October 2, 2026 and October 4, 2026.
Daviess County, Missouri, has about 8,500 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Daviess County Sheriff's Office and one city agency. An arrest 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 Daviess County Circuit Court. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it, with the arrest counts each agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies, cities and common questions.
Related guides: Daviess County public records, Missouri arrest records, Missouri inmate search and Missouri criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Daviess County
The Daviess County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Daviess County. It reported 59 arrests for 2025.
One city in Daviess County reports its arrests to the FBI separately:
- Gallatin, 1,852 residents: 0 arrests reported for 2019.
A city on that list is reported separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.
How Many Arrests The Daviess County Sheriff's Office 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.
- Daviess County Sheriff's Office: 59 for 2025, 70 for 2024, 86 for 2023, 78 for 2022, 12 for 2021 and 94 for 2019; 2020 is missing months.
- Gallatin: 0 for 2019.
The Daviess County Sheriff's Office's 59 arrests in 2025 were down 16 percent from 70 in 2024.
Through July 2026, Daviess County Sheriff's Office reported 49 arrests, against 32 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Daviess County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Daviess County 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 56 people, up from about 51 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 63 beds, and it ran at 89 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 Daviess County Sheriff's Office at daviesscountysheriff.com (page title: Daviess County Sheriff | Arrest and Inmate Search), phone (660) 663-2031, 102 North Main Street Gallatin, MO 64640, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on October 4, 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 Missouri Department of Corrections, whose inmate locator is at web.mo.gov/doc/offSearchWeb.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Daviess County
An arrest in Daviess County can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the custody page of the Daviess County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; 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 Daviess County
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 Daviess County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (660) 663-2031.
- An arrest in Gallatin: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Daviess County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for one of the eight cities in Daviess County: Gallatin. Jamesport, Pattonsburg, Winston, Altamont, Coffey, Jameson and Lock Springs have no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Daviess County Circuit Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Daviess County each year?
The Daviess County Sheriff's Office reported 59 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Daviess County?
Look on the custody page of the Daviess County Sheriff's Office at daviesscountysheriff.com, or call (660) 663-2031. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Daviess County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Daviess County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Daviess County?
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 Daviess County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Daviess County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. Under the Missouri Sunshine Law the answer is due within 3 business days.
Is this the official Daviess County website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.