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 25, 2026.
Cohoes, New York, in Albany County, has about 19,000 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 Albany 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: Cohoes public records, Albany County arrest records, New York arrest records and New York inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Cohoes
The FBI lists Cohoes with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Cohoes Police Department. It reported 531 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 Albany County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 475 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Albany County: the Albany State University of New York Police and the State University of New York at Albany (Plaza) (campus police).
How Many Arrests Cohoes 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.
- Cohoes: 531 for 2025, 450 for 2024, 529 for 2023 and 434 for 2022.
Cohoes's 531 arrests in 2025 were up 18 percent from 450 in 2024.
Across Albany County, the nine agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 5,780 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Cohoes Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Cohoes 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 570 people on an average day, up from about 490 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023, the last year with a capacity figure, was 938 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 jail page of the Albany County Sheriff's Office at albanycountyny.gov/sheriff (page title: County Sheriff | Albany County, NY), 996 Madison Avenue, Room 120 Albany, NY 12208, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.
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 Cohoes
Whether someone was arrested in Cohoes, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Albany County Supreme and County Courts, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at albanycountyny.gov/clerk-recordssearch, phone (518) 487-5100); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at albanycountyny.gov/da, phone (518) 487-5460).
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 Cohoes
An arrest report belongs to the agency whose officer wrote it, and that agency releases it, not the court or the jail. 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 Cohoes police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at cohoes-ny.gov/DocumentCenter/View/144/FOIL-Request-for-Information-PDF (page title: COHOES POLICE DEPARTMENT F.O.I.L. REQUEST FORM TO: RECORDS ACCESS OFFICER), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
- An arrest by the Albany County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, (518) 487-5460, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Albany County Supreme and County Courts, through the court records page at albanycountyny.gov/clerk-recordssearch, phone (518) 487-5100.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at albanycounty.nextrequest.com (page title: Open Public RecordsNextRequest | Modern FOIA & Public Records Request Software).
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based Record Review through the Division of Criminal Justice Services.
The Albany County guide covers every agency in the county: Albany County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Cohoes each year?
Cohoes reported 531 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Cohoes?
Ask the Albany County Sheriff's Office; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at albanycountyny.gov/sheriff.
Where are people arrested in Cohoes booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Albany County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Cohoes?
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 Cohoes?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Cohoes police for its own arrests, the Albany 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 albanycounty.nextrequest.com.
Is this the official Cohoes 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.