Lebanon Arrest Records: Who Makes Arrests, Where People Are Booked and How to Get the Report

Who Makes Arrests in Lebanon

The FBI lists Lebanon with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Lebanon Police Department. It reported 807 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 Grafton County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 294 arrests for 2022.

The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Grafton County: the Grafton County State Police (state police).

How Many Arrests Lebanon 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.

• Lebanon: 807 for 2025, 627 for 2024, 705 for 2022, 693 for 2021, 713 for 2020 and 985 for 2019; 2023 is missing months.

Lebanon's 807 arrests in 2025 were up 29 percent from 627 in 2024.

Through April 2026, Lebanon reported 229 arrests, against 237 in the same months of 2025.

Across Grafton County, the 29 agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 2,012 arrests between them.

Booking: Where People Arrested in Lebanon Are Held

A person kept in custody after an arrest in Lebanon 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 2023 the jail held about 59 people, up from about 54 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 150 beds, and it ran at 36 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 Grafton County Sheriff's Office at graftoncountysheriff.net (page title: Grafton County Sheriff's Office), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 2026.

A person sentenced to prison serves the sentence in a facility of the New Hampshire Department of Corrections, whose inmate locator is at business.nh.gov/inmate_locator.

How to Find Out About an Arrest in Lebanon

Whether someone was arrested in Lebanon, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Grafton County Superior Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at courts.nh.gov/your-visit/find-court/grafton-superior-court, phone 855-212-1234); the County Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at grafton-county.com/all-departments/attorneys-office, phone (603) 787-6968).

New Hampshire does not let the public search another person's statewide criminal history. The record kept by the New Hampshire State Police Criminal Records Unit goes to the person it belongs to and to employers and agencies the law authorizes; for everyone else the court's own case index is the public record of an arrest that led to a charge.

Getting a Copy of an Arrest Record in Lebanon

An arrest report belongs to the agency whose officer wrote it, and that agency releases it, not the court or the jail. Under the New Hampshire Right-to-Know Law the agency must answer within 5 business days, and it may charge the actual cost of copying.

• An arrest by the Lebanon police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at lebanonnh.gov/DocumentCenter/View/19317/2024-Records-Request-Form_2... (page title: __ page(s) | $ __ Date Received Intl's -------- Date Processed ________ Intl's), phone (603)448-1212, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
• An arrest by the Grafton County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
• A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the County Attorney, (603) 787-6968, handles discovery for pending cases.
• The court file of a case that was filed: the Grafton County Superior Court, through the court records page at courts.nh.gov, phone 855-212-1234.
• Your own statewide record: a notarized request to the Criminal Records Unit.

The Grafton County guide covers every agency in the county: Grafton County arrest records.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many arrests are made in Lebanon each year?

Lebanon reported 807 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.

How do I find out if someone is in jail in Lebanon?

Ask the Grafton County Sheriff's Office; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at graftoncountysheriff.net.

Where are people arrested in Lebanon booked?

Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Grafton County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.

Are arrest records public in Lebanon?

The court files of criminal cases in the Grafton County Superior Court are public and can be looked up through the court. The statewide criminal history kept by the New Hampshire State Police Criminal Records Unit is not public; you can get your own. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the New Hampshire Right-to-Know Law.

How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Lebanon?

From the agency that made the arrest: the Lebanon police for its own arrests, the Grafton County Sheriff's Office for the sheriff's. Under the New Hampshire Right-to-Know Law the answer is due within 5 business days.

Is this the official Lebanon 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.