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.
Stutsman County, North Dakota, has about 22,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Stutsman 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 State's Attorney files charges, a case in the Stutsman 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: Stutsman County public records, North Dakota arrest records, North Dakota inmate search and North Dakota criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Stutsman County
The Stutsman County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Stutsman County. It reported 95 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists one city in Stutsman County with a reporting agency of its own:
- Jamestown, 15,789 residents: 626 arrests reported for 2024.
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 Stutsman County
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.
- Jamestown: 626 for 2024, 624 for 2023, 617 for 2022, 757 for 2021, 499 for 2020 and 567 for 2019.
- Stutsman County Sheriff's Office: 95 for 2025, 156 for 2024, 118 for 2023, 135 for 2022, 151 for 2021 and 153 for 2020.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2024 on file reported 782 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2024 and 2023 complete reported 782 in 2024 against 742 in 2023, up 5.4 percent.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Stutsman County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Stutsman 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 2021 the jail held about 41 people, down from about 68 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 96 beds, and it ran at 71 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 Stutsman County Sheriff's Office at stutsmancounty.gov/departments/correctional-center/inmate-roster (page title: Inmate Roster | Stutsman County), phone (701) 252-7436, Monday-Friday 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM, 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 person sentenced to prison serves the sentence in a facility of the North Dakota Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, whose inmate locator is at docr.nd.gov/resident-lookup.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Stutsman County
Whether someone was arrested in Stutsman County, and what came of it, shows up in three places: the custody page of the Stutsman County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Stutsman County District Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at ndcourts.gov/court-locations/stutsman-county, phone 701-253-6243); the State's Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at stutsmancounty.gov/departments/states-attorney, phone (701) 252-6688).
Statewide, North Dakota Courts Records Inquiry is the North Dakota courts' free statewide case search.
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 Stutsman 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 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 Stutsman County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (701) 252-7436.
- An arrest in Jamestown: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the State's Attorney, (701) 252-6688, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Stutsman County District Court, through the court records page at ndcourts.gov/court-locations/stutsman-county, phone 701-253-6243.
- Your own statewide record: a request to the Bureau of Criminal Investigation.
Cities in Stutsman County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for one of the 11 cities in Stutsman County: Jamestown. Medina, Streeter, Kensal, Spiritwood Lake, Buchanan, Montpelier, Cleveland, Woodworth, Pingree and Courtenay 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 Stutsman County District Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Stutsman County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Jamestown (15,789)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Stutsman County each year?
Jamestown reported 626 arrests to the FBI for 2024, and the two agencies with every month of 2024 on file reported 782 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Stutsman County?
Look on the custody page of the Stutsman County Sheriff's Office at stutsmancounty.gov, or call (701) 252-7436. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Stutsman County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Stutsman County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Stutsman 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 Stutsman County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Stutsman 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 Stutsman 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.