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 24, 2026 and September 26, 2026.
Livingston, Montana, in Park County, has about 9,000 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 Park 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: Livingston public records, Park County arrest records, Montana arrest records and Montana inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Livingston
The FBI lists Livingston with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Livingston Police Department. It reported 190 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 Park County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 14 arrests for 2025.
How Many Arrests Livingston 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.
- Livingston: 190 for 2025, 136 for 2024, 103 for 2022, 107 for 2021, 78 for 2020 and 75 for 2019; 2023 is missing months.
Livingston's 190 arrests in 2025 were up 40 percent from 136 in 2024.
Through August 2026, Livingston reported 113 arrests, against 134 in the same months of 2025.
Across Park County, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 204 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Livingston Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Livingston 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 19 people. Its rated capacity in 2019 was 20 beds, and it ran at 95 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 Park County Sheriff's Office at parkcountymt.gov/Government-Departments/Sheriff-s-Office/Inmates-Ho... (page title: Park County Montana | Sheriff's Office | Inmate Roster), phone (406) 222-4100, 414 E. Callender St. Livingston, MT 59047, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 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 sentence of more than a year is served in state prison; the Montana Department of Corrections lists its inmates at offendersearch.mt.gov/conweb.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Livingston
Whether someone was arrested in Livingston, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the custody page of the Park County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Park County District Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at parkcountymt.gov/Government-Departments/CLERK-OF-COURT, phone 406.222.4125).
Montana is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: the CHOPRS service lets anyone search public criminal history online by name, through the Montana Department of Justice. 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 Livingston
An arrest report belongs to the agency whose officer wrote it, and that agency releases it, not the court or the jail. Under the Montana Public Records Act the agency must answer in a timely manner; the statute sets no number of days, and it may charge the actual cost of fulfilling the request.
- An arrest by the Livingston police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at livingstonmontana.org/police (page title: Livingston Police Department | Livingston, Montana), phone 406-222-2050, 414 E. Callender Street, Livingston, MT 59047, months and include: 7:00 AM - 5:00 PM, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Park County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (406) 222-4100.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Park County District Court, through the court records page at parkcountymt.gov, phone 406.222.4125.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The Park County guide covers every agency in the county: Park County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Livingston each year?
Livingston reported 190 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Livingston?
Look on the custody page of the Park County Sheriff's Office at parkcountymt.gov, or call (406) 222-4100. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Livingston booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Park County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Livingston?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Montana Department of Justice: the CHOPRS service lets anyone search public criminal history online by name. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Montana Public Records Act.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Livingston?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Livingston police for its own arrests, the Park County Sheriff's Office for the sheriff's. Under the Montana Public Records Act the answer is due in a timely manner; the statute sets no number of days.
Is this the official Livingston 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.