Auburn Arrest Records: Who Makes Arrests, Where People Are Booked and How to Get the Report

Who Makes Arrests in Auburn

The FBI lists Auburn with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Auburn Police Department. It reported 686 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 Cayuga County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 327 arrests for 2025.

How Many Arrests Auburn 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.

• Auburn: 686 for 2025, 981 for 2024, 1,162 for 2023, 1,193 for 2022 and 1,055 for 2021.

Auburn's 686 arrests in 2025 were down 30 percent from 981 in 2024.

Through July 2026, Auburn reported 419 arrests, against 461 in the same months of 2025.

Across Cayuga County, the five agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,017 arrests between them.

Booking: Where People Arrested in Auburn Are Held

The county jail is where a person arrested in Auburn 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 140 people on an average day, down from about 150 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023, the last year with a capacity figure, was 216 beds, and it ran at 75 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 Cayuga County Sheriff's Office at cayugacounty.gov/155/Sheriffs-Office---Old-URL-Do-Not-Delete (page title: Sheriff | Cayuga County, NY), phone 315-253-1222, a site that blocks automated checks (HTTP 429), so open it in a browser.

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 Auburn

An arrest in Auburn 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 cayugacounty.gov/m/directory/department?did=15, phone 315-253-1391).

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 Auburn

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 Auburn police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at auburnny.gov/1100/Records-Bureau (page title: Records Bureau | Auburn, NY), phone 315-255-4723, 46 North Street Auburn, NY 13021, Monday through Friday 7 am until 3 pm, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
• An arrest by the Cayuga County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 315-253-1222.
• A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 315-253-1391, handles discovery for pending cases.
• Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based Record Review through the Division of Criminal Justice Services.

The Cayuga County guide covers every agency in the county: Cayuga County arrest records.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many arrests are made in Auburn each year?

Auburn reported 686 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.

Where are people arrested in Auburn booked?

Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Cayuga County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.

Are arrest records public in Auburn?

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 Auburn?

From the agency that made the arrest: the Auburn police for its own arrests, the Cayuga 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 Auburn 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.