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.
Churchill County, Nevada, has about 26,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Churchill 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 District Attorney files charges, a case in the District Court for Churchill County. 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: Churchill County public records, Nevada arrest records, Nevada inmate search and Nevada criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Churchill County
The Churchill County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Churchill County. It reported 376 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists one city in Churchill County with a reporting agency of its own:
- Fallon, 9,647 residents: 245 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 Churchill 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.
- Churchill County Sheriff's Office: 376 for 2025, 388 for 2024, 394 for 2023, 459 for 2021, 685 for 2020 and 706 for 2019; 2022 is missing months.
- Fallon: 245 for 2025, 229 for 2024, 263 for 2023 and 616 for 2019; 2020, 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 621 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 621 in 2025 against 617 in 2024, up 0.6 percent.
Through June 2026, the two agencies with every month so far on file reported 332 arrests, against 283 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Churchill County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Churchill 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 2020 the jail held about 50 people, down from about 58 in 2018. Its rated capacity in 2020 was 119 beds, and it ran at 42 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 Churchill County Sheriff's Office at churchillcountynv.gov/633/Detention-Facility (page title: Detention Facility | Churchill County, NV), phone (888) 268-8463, 180 West A Street Fallon, NV 89406, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 2026.
A person sentenced to prison serves the sentence in a facility of the Nevada Department of Corrections, whose inmate locator is at doc.nv.gov/offender-info.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Churchill County
An arrest in Churchill County can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the case index of the District Court for Churchill County, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at churchillcountynv.gov/1121/Courts, phone (775)423-2845); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at churchillcountynv.gov/149/District-Attorney, phone (775) 423-6561).
Nevada does not let the public search another person's statewide criminal history. The record kept by the Nevada Department of Public Safety Records, Communications and Compliance Division 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 Churchill 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 Nevada Public Records Act the agency must answer within 5 business days, and it may charge the actual cost of copying; staff time only for extraordinary requests.
- An arrest by the Churchill County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (888) 268-8463.
- An arrest in Fallon: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, (775) 423-6561, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the District Court for Churchill County, through the court records page at churchillcountynv.gov/1121/Courts, phone (775)423-2845.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Records Bureau.
Cities in Churchill County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for Fallon, the one city in Churchill County.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the District Court for Churchill County.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Churchill County each year?
The Churchill County Sheriff's Office reported 376 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the two agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 621 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Churchill County?
Ask the Churchill County Sheriff's Office at (888) 268-8463; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at churchillcountynv.gov/633/Detention-Facility.
Where are people arrested in Churchill County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Churchill County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Churchill County?
The court files of criminal cases in the District Court for Churchill County are public and can be looked up through the court. The statewide criminal history kept by the Nevada Department of Public Safety Records, Communications and Compliance Division is not public; you can get your own. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Nevada Public Records Act.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Churchill County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Churchill County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. Under the Nevada Public Records Act the answer is due within 5 business days.
Is this the official Churchill 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.