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 25, 2026 and October 2, 2026.
Newburgh, New York, in Orange County, has about 28,000 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 Orange 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: Newburgh public records, Orange County arrest records, New York arrest records and New York inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Newburgh
The FBI lists Newburgh with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Newburgh Police Department. It reported 1,455 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 Orange County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 199 arrests for 2025.
How Many Arrests Newburgh 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.
- Newburgh: 1,455 for 2025, 975 for 2023, 1,261 for 2022, 911 for 2020 and 1,310 for 2019; 2021 and 2024 are missing months.
Across Orange County, the 29 agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 5,277 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Newburgh Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Newburgh 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 380 people on an average day, down from about 610 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023, the last year with a capacity figure, was 802 beds, and it ran at 41 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
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 Newburgh
For Newburgh the place to look is eCourts, the Unified Court System's free online case search (WebCivil, WebCrims and WebFamily), which shows whether charges were filed.
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 Newburgh
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 Newburgh police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at cityofnewburgh-ny.gov/225/Police-Departments-RecordsReports (page title: Police Department's Records/Reports | Newburgh, NY), phone 845-569-7538, Monday through Friday 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
- An arrest by the Orange County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at orangecounty.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 Orange County guide covers every agency in the county: Orange County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Newburgh each year?
Newburgh reported 1,455 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
Where are people arrested in Newburgh booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Orange County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Newburgh?
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 Newburgh?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Newburgh police for its own arrests, the Orange 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 orangecounty.nextrequest.com.
Is this the official Newburgh 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.