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 2025. 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 23, 2026 and October 2, 2026.
Albion, New York, in Orleans County, has about 5,700 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 Orleans County Supreme and County Courts. 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: Albion public records, Orleans County arrest records, New York arrest records and New York inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Albion
The FBI lists Albion with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Albion Village Police Department. It reported 192 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 Orleans County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 266 arrests for 2025.
How Many Arrests Albion 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.
- Albion: 192 for 2025, 137 for 2023, 170 for 2022, 234 for 2020 and 270 for 2019; 2021 and 2024 are missing months.
Across Orleans County, the four agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 603 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Albion Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Albion 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.
So far in 2026 the jail has held about 38 people on an average day, down from about 59 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 82 beds, and it ran at 72 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
A sentence of more than a year is served in state prison; the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision lists its inmates at nysdoccslookup.doccs.ny.gov.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Albion
An arrest in Albion can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: eCourts, the Unified Court System's free online case search (WebCivil, WebCrims and WebFamily), which shows whether charges were filed; the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at orleanscountyny.gov/departments/court_and_law/district_attorney/dis..., phone (585) 590-4130).
New York is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: the Office of Court Administration sells a statewide search of criminal court records by name and date of birth, for $95 a search, through the New York State Office of Court Administration. 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 Albion
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 Freedom of Information Law the agency must answer within 5 business days, at least with an acknowledgment and a date for the full answer, and it may charge copying at 25 cents a page.
- An arrest by the Albion police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at villageofalbionny.gov/departments/albion-police-department (page title: Albion Police Department | Village of Albion), phone (585)589-5627, 106 North Platt Street Albion, NY 14411, Monday - Friday: 8:00 AM - 3:45 PM, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Orleans County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, (585) 590-4130, handles discovery for pending cases.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based Record Review through the Division of Criminal Justice Services.
The Orleans County guide covers every agency in the county: Orleans County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Albion each year?
Albion reported 192 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
Where are people arrested in Albion booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Orleans County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Albion?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the New York State Office of Court Administration: the Office of Court Administration sells a statewide search of criminal court records by name and date of birth, for $95. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Freedom of Information Law.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Albion?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Albion police for its own arrests, the Orleans County Sheriff's Office for the sheriff's. Under the Freedom of Information Law the answer is due within 5 business days, at least with an acknowledgment and a date for the full answer.
Is this the official Albion 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.