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.
Douglas County, Nevada, has about 50,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Douglas 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 District Attorney files charges, a case in the District Court for Douglas 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 and common questions.
Related guides: Douglas County public records, Nevada arrest records, Nevada inmate search and Nevada criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Douglas County
The Douglas County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Douglas County. It reported 1,634 arrests for 2025.
How Many Arrests The Douglas County Sheriff's Office 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.
- Douglas County Sheriff's Office: 1,634 for 2025, 1,547 for 2024, 1,590 for 2023, 1,561 for 2022, 1,647 for 2021 and 2,112 for 2020.
The Douglas County Sheriff's Office's 1,634 arrests in 2025 were up 5.6 percent from 1,547 in 2024.
Through June 2026, Douglas County Sheriff's Office reported 766 arrests, against 853 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Douglas County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Douglas 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 2019 the jail held about 66 people. Its rated capacity in 2019 was 138 beds, and it ran at 48 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 Douglas County Sheriff's Office at sheriff.douglascountynv.gov/divisions_and_units/jail_information/ja... (page title: Jail Bookings and Bail | Douglas County, NV Sheriff), phone (775) 782-9944, 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 sentence of more than a year is served in state prison; the Nevada Department of Corrections lists its inmates at doc.nv.gov/offender-info.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Douglas County
An arrest in Douglas County can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the custody page of the Douglas County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the District Court for Douglas County, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at cltr.douglascountynv.gov/search_databases).
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 Douglas 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 Douglas County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (775) 782-9944.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the District Court for Douglas County, through the court records page at cltr.douglascountynv.gov/search_databases.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at douglascountynv.gov (page title: Make a Public Records Request | Douglas County, Nevada).
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Records Bureau.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Douglas County each year?
The Douglas County Sheriff's Office reported 1,634 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Douglas County?
Look on the custody page of the Douglas County Sheriff's Office at sheriff.douglascountynv.gov, or call (775) 782-9944. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Douglas County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Douglas County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Douglas County?
The court files of criminal cases in the District Court for Douglas 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 Douglas County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Douglas 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; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at douglascountynv.gov.
Is this the official Douglas 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.