Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones each agency reported to the FBI, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026. 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.
Cayuga County, New York, has about 75,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Cayuga County Sheriff's Office and four city agencies. An arrest 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 Cayuga County Supreme and County Courts. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it, with the arrest counts each agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies, cities and common questions.
Related guides: Cayuga County public records, New York arrest records, New York inmate search and New York criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Cayuga County
The Cayuga County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Cayuga County. It reported 327 arrests for 2025.
Arrests inside four of the county's cities are reported to the FBI by an agency of the city's own, listed here with the Census population and what each reported:
- Auburn, 25,963 residents: 686 arrests reported for 2025.
- Weedsport, 1,761 residents: 2 arrests reported for 2025.
- Moravia, 1,241 residents: 2 arrests reported for 2025.
- Port Byron, 1,214 residents: 0 arrests reported for 2025.
A city on that list is reported separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Cayuga County
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.
- Auburn: 686 for 2025, 981 for 2024, 1,162 for 2023, 1,193 for 2022 and 1,055 for 2021.
- Cayuga County Sheriff's Office: 327 for 2025, 328 for 2024, 355 for 2023, 332 for 2022, 324 for 2021 and 203 for 2020.
- Moravia: 2 for 2025, 0 for 2023, 0 for 2022, 3 for 2020 and 12 for 2019; 2021 and 2024 are missing months.
- Weedsport: 2 for 2025, 0 for 2024, 0 for 2023, 3 for 2022, 16 for 2020 and 8 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
- Port Byron: 0 for 2025, 0 for 2023, 3 for 2022 and 1 for 2020; 2021 and 2024 are missing months.
Together, the five agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,017 arrests that year. The three of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 1,015 in 2025 against 1,309 in 2024, down 22 percent.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Cayuga County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Cayuga County 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 140 people on an average day, down from about 150 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023, the last year with a capacity figure, was 216 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 Cayuga County Sheriff's Office at cayugacounty.gov/155/Sheriffs-Office---Old-URL-Do-Not-Delete (page title: Sheriff | Cayuga County, NY), phone 315-253-1222, a site that blocks automated checks (HTTP 429), so open it in a browser.
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 Cayuga County
Whether someone was arrested in Cayuga County, 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 cayugacounty.gov/m/directory/department?did=15, phone 315-253-1391).
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 Cayuga County
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 Cayuga County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 315-253-1222.
- An arrest in Auburn, Weedsport, Moravia or Port Byron: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 315-253-1391, handles discovery for pending cases.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based Record Review through the Division of Criminal Justice Services.
Cities in Cayuga County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for four of the ten cities in Cayuga County: Auburn, Weedsport, Moravia and Port Byron. Union Springs, Fair Haven, Aurora, Cayuga, Cato and Meridian have no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Cayuga County Supreme and County Courts.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Cayuga County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Auburn (25,963)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Cayuga County each year?
Auburn reported 686 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the five agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 1,017 between them.
Where are people arrested in Cayuga County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Cayuga County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Cayuga County?
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 Cayuga County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Cayuga County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. 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 Cayuga County website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.