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 2023. 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 28, 2026.
Clovis, New Mexico, in Curry County, has about 38,000 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 District Attorney files charges, a case in the District Court for Curry County. 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: Clovis public records, Curry County arrest records, New Mexico arrest records and New Mexico inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Clovis
The FBI lists Clovis with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Clovis Police Department. It reported 391 arrests for 2023, its latest complete year. 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 Curry County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 176 arrests for 2025.
How Many Arrests Clovis Reports
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.
- Clovis: 391 for 2023, 333 for 2022, 303 for 2021 and 1,342 for 2019; 2020 is missing months.
Clovis's 391 arrests in 2023 were up 17 percent from 333 in 2022.
Across Curry County, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2023 on file reported 681 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Clovis Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Clovis 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 150 people, down from about 210 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 265 beds, and it ran at 78 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 Curry County Sheriff's Office at currycountynm.gov/elected-officials/sheriff-s-office (page title: Sheriff's Office | Curry County, NM), phone (575) 769-2335, 700 North Main Street, Suite #4 Clovis, NM 88101, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 28, 2026.
A sentence of more than a year is served in state prison; the New Mexico Corrections Department lists its inmates at cd.nm.gov.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Clovis
Whether someone was arrested in Clovis, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the District Court for Curry County, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at ninthdistrict.nmcourts.gov/services-programs/records-requests); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at 9thda.com).
Statewide, New Mexico Courts Case Lookup is the New Mexico Judiciary's free statewide case search.
New Mexico does not let the public search another person's statewide criminal history. The record kept by the New Mexico Department of Public Safety 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 Clovis
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 Inspection of Public Records Act the agency must answer within 15 calendar days, after acknowledging the request within 3 business days, and it may charge copying at no more than $1 a page.
- An arrest by the Clovis police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at clovisnm.gov/378/Records (page title: Records | Clovis, NM), phone 575-763-9428, 300 Connelly St. Clovis, NM 88101, Monday through Friday from 8 am to 5 pm., which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Curry County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (575) 769-2335.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the District Court for Curry County, through the court records page at ninthdistrict.nmcourts.gov.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Department of Public Safety.
The Curry County guide covers every agency in the county: Curry County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Clovis each year?
Clovis reported 391 arrests to the FBI for 2023, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Clovis?
Ask the Curry County Sheriff's Office at (575) 769-2335; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at currycountynm.gov.
Where are people arrested in Clovis booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Curry County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Clovis?
The court files of criminal cases in the District Court for Curry County are public and can be looked up through the court. The statewide criminal history kept by the New Mexico Department of Public Safety is not public; you can get your own. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Inspection of Public Records Act.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Clovis?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Clovis police for its own arrests, the Curry County Sheriff's Office for the sheriff's. Under the Inspection of Public Records Act the answer is due within 15 calendar days, after acknowledging the request within 3 business days.
Is this the official Clovis 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.