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.
Utica, New York, in Oneida County, has about 64,000 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 Oneida 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: Utica public records, Oneida County arrest records, New York arrest records and New York inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Utica
The FBI lists Utica with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Utica Police Department. It reported 1,300 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 Oneida County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 331 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Oneida County: the Polytechnic Institute State University of New York Police (campus police).
How Many Arrests Utica 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.
- Utica: 1,300 for 2025, 1,326 for 2024, 1,542 for 2023, 1,495 for 2022, 1,410 for 2021 and 1,170 for 2020.
Utica's 1,300 arrests in 2025 were down 2 percent from 1,326 in 2024.
Through July 2026, Utica reported 634 arrests, against 773 in the same months of 2025.
Across Oneida County, the 12 agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 3,324 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Utica Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Utica 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 320 people on an average day, down from about 360 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 624 beds, and it ran at 58 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 Oneida County Sheriff's Office at sheriff.oneidacountyny.gov/quick-links/inmate-list (page title: Inmate Information: Oneida County Sheriff's Office | Oneida County Sheriff's Office), phone 315-768-7804, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 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 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 Utica
An arrest in Utica can be traced in three places, depending on where the case stands: the custody page of the Oneida County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Oneida County Supreme and County Courts, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at oneidacountyny.gov/departments/county-clerk/courts); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at oneidacountyny.gov/departments/district-attorney, phone (315) 798-5766).
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 Utica
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 Utica police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at cityofutica.com/departments/police-department/information/index (page title: Alarm Information), phone (315) 735-3301, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
- An arrest by the Oneida County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 315-768-7804.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, (315) 798-5766, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Oneida County Supreme and County Courts, through the court records page at oneidacountyny.gov.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based Record Review through the Division of Criminal Justice Services.
The Oneida County guide covers every agency in the county: Oneida County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Utica each year?
Utica reported 1,300 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Utica?
Look on the custody page of the Oneida County Sheriff's Office at sheriff.oneidacountyny.gov, or call 315-768-7804. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Utica booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Oneida County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Utica?
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 Utica?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Utica police for its own arrests, the Oneida 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 Utica 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.