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.
Slope County, North Dakota, has 660 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Slope County Sheriff's Office. 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 State's Attorney files charges, a case in the Slope 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: Slope County public records, North Dakota arrest records, North Dakota inmate search and North Dakota criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Slope County
The Slope County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Slope County. It reported 0 arrests for 2025.
How Many Arrests The Slope County Sheriff's Office 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.
- Slope County Sheriff's Office: 0 for 2025, 0 for 2024, 0 for 2023, 0 for 2022, 3 for 2021 and 0 for 2020.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Slope County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Slope County 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 2023 the jail held about 1 people, up from about 1 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 2 beds, and it ran at 64 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 Slope County Sheriff's Office at saltlakecounty.gov/sheriff/corrections/find (page title: Find a Prisoner | Sheriff | Salt Lake County), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 2026.
A sentence of more than a year is served in state prison; the North Dakota Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation lists its inmates at docr.nd.gov/resident-lookup.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Slope County
For Slope County the place to look is North Dakota Courts Records Inquiry, the North Dakota courts' free statewide case search, which shows whether charges were filed.
North Dakota is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: name-based criminal history records are open to anyone who asks, through the North Dakota Bureau of Criminal Investigation. 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 Slope 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 North Dakota Open Records Law the agency must answer within a reasonable time, and it may charge copying, and staff time after the first hour.
- An arrest by the Slope County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- Your own statewide record: a request to the Bureau of Criminal Investigation.
Cities in Slope County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists no city in Slope County with an arrest reporting agency of its own; the counts above are the county agencies'.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Slope County District Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Slope County each year?
The Slope County Sheriff's Office reported 0 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Slope County?
Ask the Slope County Sheriff's Office; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at saltlakecounty.gov/sheriff/corrections/find.
Where are people arrested in Slope County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Slope County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Slope County?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the North Dakota Bureau of Criminal Investigation: name-based criminal history records are open to anyone who asks. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the North Dakota Open Records Law.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Slope County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Slope County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. Under the North Dakota Open Records Law the answer is due within a reasonable time.
Is this the official Slope 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.