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 September 23, 2026 and October 4, 2026.
Franklin County, Missouri, has about 107,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Franklin County Sheriff's Office and nine city agencies. 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 Franklin 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: Franklin County public records, Missouri arrest records, Missouri inmate search and Missouri criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Franklin County
The Franklin County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Franklin County. It reported 63 arrests for 2022, its latest complete year.
The FBI lists nine cities in Franklin County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Washington, 15,521 residents: 256 arrests reported for 2025.
- Union, 13,198 residents: 174 arrests reported for 2024.
- Pacific, 7,842 residents: 197 arrests reported for 2025.
- Sullivan, 6,925 residents: 543 arrests reported for 2025.
- St. Clair, 4,748 residents: 164 arrests reported for 2024.
- New Haven, 2,399 residents: 38 arrests reported for 2025.
- Gerald, 1,359 residents: 1 arrests reported for 2025.
- Oak Grove Village, 405 residents: 1,177 arrests reported for 2025.
- Berger, 269 residents.
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 Each Agency Reports in Franklin County
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.
- Oak Grove Village: 1,177 for 2025, 1,175 for 2024, 1,176 for 2023, 1,170 for 2022, 1,145 for 2021 and 1,167 for 2020.
- Sullivan: 543 for 2025, 461 for 2024, 436 for 2023, 426 for 2022, 581 for 2021 and 912 for 2020.
- Washington: 256 for 2025, 234 for 2024, 359 for 2023, 418 for 2022, 497 for 2021 and 460 for 2020.
- Pacific: 197 for 2025, 254 for 2024, 196 for 2023, 249 for 2022, 272 for 2021 and 263 for 2020.
- New Haven: 38 for 2025, 15 for 2022, 16 for 2021, 21 for 2020 and 202 for 2019; 2023 and 2024 are missing months.
- Gerald: 1 for 2025, 0 for 2024, 4 for 2023, 4 for 2022 and 6 for 2021.
- Union: 174 for 2024, 247 for 2023, 247 for 2022, 291 for 2021, 239 for 2020 and 313 for 2019.
- St. Clair: 164 for 2024, 173 for 2023, 141 for 2022, 162 for 2021, 286 for 2020 and 428 for 2019.
- Franklin County Sheriff's Office: 63 for 2022, 80 for 2021, 126 for 2020 and 143 for 2019.
Together, the six agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 2,212 arrests that year. The five of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 2,174 in 2025 against 2,124 in 2024, up 2.4 percent.
Through July 2026, the five agencies with every month so far on file reported 1,276 arrests, against 1,288 in the same months of 2025.
Union, Franklin County Sheriff's Office and St. Clair reported only part of 2025 (11 months, 10 months and 11 months) and are left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Franklin County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Franklin 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 2019 the jail held about 180 people. Its rated capacity in 2019 was 130 beds, and it ran at 136 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 Franklin County Sheriff's Office at franklinmo.gov/218/Sheriff (page title: Sheriff | Franklin County, MO), phone 636-582-8600, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on October 4, 2026.
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 Franklin County
For Franklin County the place to look is the case index of the Franklin County Circuit Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at fcmcclerk.com/case/search).
Statewide, Case.net is the Missouri courts' free statewide case search.
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 Franklin 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 Franklin County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 636-582-8600.
- An arrest in Washington, Union, Pacific, Sullivan, St. Clair, New Haven or another of the cities listed above: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Franklin County Circuit Court, through the court records page at fcmcclerk.com/case/search.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Franklin County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for nine of the 13 cities in Franklin County: Washington, Union, Pacific, Sullivan, St. Clair, New Haven, Gerald, Oak Grove Village and Berger. Parkway, Leslie, Miramiguoa Park and Charmwood 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 Franklin County Circuit Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Franklin County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Franklin County each year?
Oak Grove Village reported 1,177 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the six agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 2,212 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Franklin County?
Ask the Franklin County Sheriff's Office at 636-582-8600; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at franklinmo.gov/218/Sheriff.
Where are people arrested in Franklin County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Franklin County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Franklin 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 Franklin County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Franklin 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 Franklin 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.