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.
Saratoga Springs, New York, in Saratoga County, has about 29,000 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 Saratoga 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: Saratoga Springs public records, Saratoga County arrest records, New York arrest records and New York inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Saratoga Springs
The FBI lists Saratoga Springs with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Saratoga Springs Police Department. It reported 829 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 Saratoga County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 1,039 arrests for 2025.
How Many Arrests Saratoga Springs 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.
- Saratoga Springs: 829 for 2025, 862 for 2024, 818 for 2023, 830 for 2022 and 1,020 for 2020; 2021 is missing months.
Saratoga Springs's 829 arrests in 2025 were down 3.8 percent from 862 in 2024.
Across Saratoga County, the six agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 2,423 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Saratoga Springs Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Saratoga Springs 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 200 people on an average day, up from about 170 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023, the last year with a capacity figure, was 222 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 Saratoga County Sheriff's Office at saratogacountyny.gov/departments/sheriffs-office (page title: Sheriff’s Office | County of Saratoga, New York), phone (518) 885-6761, 6012 County Farm Rd. Ballston Spa, NY 12020, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.
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 Saratoga Springs
Whether someone was arrested in Saratoga Springs, and what came of it, shows up in two places: 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 da.saratogacountyny.gov/about/staff, phone 518-885-2263).
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 Saratoga Springs
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 Saratoga Springs police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at saratogaspringsny.gov/DocumentCenter/View/365/Police-Report-Request... (page title: Saratoga Springs Police Department), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
- An arrest by the Saratoga County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (518) 885-6761.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 518-885-2263, handles discovery for pending cases.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based Record Review through the Division of Criminal Justice Services.
The Saratoga County guide covers every agency in the county: Saratoga County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Saratoga Springs each year?
Saratoga Springs reported 829 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Saratoga Springs?
Ask the Saratoga County Sheriff's Office at (518) 885-6761; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at saratogacountyny.gov.
Where are people arrested in Saratoga Springs booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Saratoga County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Saratoga Springs?
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 Saratoga Springs?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Saratoga Springs police for its own arrests, the Saratoga 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 Saratoga Springs 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.