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 September 28, 2026.
Amsterdam, New York, in Montgomery County, has about 18,000 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 Montgomery 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: Amsterdam public records, Montgomery County arrest records, New York arrest records and New York inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Amsterdam
The FBI lists Amsterdam with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Amsterdam Police Department. It reported 747 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 Montgomery County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 539 arrests for 2025.
How Many Arrests Amsterdam 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.
- Amsterdam: 747 for 2025, 714 for 2023, 606 for 2022 and 508 for 2020; 2021 and 2024 are missing months.
Across Montgomery County, the four agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,328 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Amsterdam Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Amsterdam 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 120 people on an average day, up from about 110 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 177 beds, and it ran at 61 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 Montgomery County Sheriff's Office at mcsojail.countygovservices.com/Home/CurrentInmates (page title: Current Inmates | Montgomery County Sheriff's Office), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 28, 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 person sentenced to prison serves the sentence in a facility of the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, whose inmate locator is at nysdoccslookup.doccs.ny.gov.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Amsterdam
Whether someone was arrested in Amsterdam, and what came of it, shows up in three places: the custody page of the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Montgomery County Supreme and County Courts, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at montgomerycountyny.gov/web/sites/departments/countyclerk/contact.asp, phone 518-853-8111); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at montgomerycountyny.gov/web/sites/departments/districtattorney/conta..., phone 518-853-8250).
Statewide, eCourts is the Unified Court System's free online case search (WebCivil, WebCrims and WebFamily).
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 Amsterdam
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 Amsterdam police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at amsterdamny.gov/m/directory/department?did=27 (page title: Staff Directory, Police Department), phone 518-842-1100, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
- An arrest by the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 518-853-8250, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Montgomery County Supreme and County Courts, through the court records page at montgomerycountyny.gov, phone 518-853-8111.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at montgomerycountyny.gov (page title: Montgomery County, NY).
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based Record Review through the Division of Criminal Justice Services.
The Montgomery County guide covers every agency in the county: Montgomery County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Amsterdam each year?
Amsterdam reported 747 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Amsterdam?
Look on the custody page of the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office at mcsojail.countygovservices.com. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Amsterdam booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Amsterdam?
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 Amsterdam?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Amsterdam police for its own arrests, the Montgomery 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; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at montgomerycountyny.gov.
Is this the official Amsterdam 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.