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 on September 24, 2026.
Glacier County, Montana, has about 14,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Glacier 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 County Attorney files charges, a case in the Glacier County District 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: Glacier County public records, Montana arrest records, Montana inmate search and Montana criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Glacier County
The Glacier County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Glacier County. It reported 23 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists one city in Glacier County with a reporting agency of its own:
- Cut Bank, 2,988 residents: 339 arrests reported for 2025.
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 Glacier 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.
- Cut Bank: 339 for 2025, 325 for 2024, 298 for 2023, 176 for 2022, 180 for 2021 and 293 for 2020.
- Glacier County Sheriff's Office: 23 for 2025, 18 for 2024, 51 for 2023, 17 for 2021, 22 for 2020 and 83 for 2019; 2022 is missing months.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 362 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 362 in 2025 against 343 in 2024, up 5.5 percent.
Through July 2026, the two agencies with every month so far on file reported 205 arrests, against 227 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Glacier County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Glacier 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 2020 the jail held about 8 people, down from about 14 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 20 beds, and it ran at 68 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 Glacier County Sheriff's Office at glaciercountymt.gov/category/jail-roster (page title: Glacier County Montana), 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 Glacier County
Whether someone was arrested in Glacier County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the custody page of the Glacier County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Glacier County District Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at glaciercountymt.gov/departments/clerk-of-district-court, phone (406) 899-7109).
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 Glacier County
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 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 Glacier County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Cut Bank: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Glacier County District Court, through the court records page at glaciercountymt.gov, phone (406) 899-7109.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at sosmt.gov/public-records-request (page title: Public Records Request | Official Montana Secretary of State Website | Christi Jacobsen).
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Glacier County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for Cut Bank, the one city in Glacier County.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Glacier County District Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Glacier County each year?
Cut Bank reported 339 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the two agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 362 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Glacier County?
Look on the custody page of the Glacier County Sheriff's Office at glaciercountymt.gov/category/jail-roster. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Glacier County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Glacier County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Glacier County?
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 Glacier County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Glacier County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. Under the Montana Public Records Act the answer is due in a timely manner; the statute sets no number of days; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at sosmt.gov/public-records-request.
Is this the official Glacier 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.