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 26, 2026 and October 2, 2026.
Walden, New York, in Orange County, has about 6,900 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: Walden public records, Orange County arrest records, New York arrest records and New York inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Walden
The FBI lists Walden with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Walden Village Police Department. It reported 35 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 Walden 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.
- Walden: 35 for 2025, 56 for 2024, 59 for 2023, 120 for 2022, 62 for 2021 and 52 for 2020.
Walden's 35 arrests in 2025 were down 38 percent from 56 in 2024.
Through May 2026, Walden reported 9 arrests, against 14 in the same months of 2025.
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 Walden Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Walden 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 Walden
For Walden 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 Walden
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 Walden police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at villageofwaldenny.gov/departments/walden-police (page title: Walden Police | The Village of Walden), phone (845) 778-5595, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 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 Walden each year?
Walden reported 35 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
Where are people arrested in Walden 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 Walden?
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 Walden?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Walden 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 Walden 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.