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 4, 2026.
Franklin County, New York, has about 47,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Franklin County Sheriff's Office and three 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 Franklin 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: Franklin County public records, New York arrest records, New York inmate search and New York criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Franklin County
The Franklin County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Franklin County. It reported 3 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists three cities in Franklin County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Malone, 5,373 residents: 340 arrests reported for 2025.
- Saranac Lake, 4,856 residents: 126 arrests reported for 2019.
- Tupper Lake, 3,308 residents: 136 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 Franklin 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.
- Malone: 340 for 2025, 206 for 2024, 311 for 2023, 304 for 2022 and 399 for 2020; 2021 is missing months.
- Tupper Lake: 136 for 2025 and 114 for 2023; 2024 is missing months.
- Franklin County Sheriff's Office: 3 for 2025, 11 for 2023 and 39 for 2019; 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2024 are missing months.
- Saranac Lake: 126 for 2019.
Together, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 479 arrests that year. The one of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 340 in 2025 against 206 in 2024, up 65 percent.
Saranac Lake reported only part of 2025 (9 months) and is left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Franklin County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Franklin County is held at the county jail, whichever agency made the arrest, apart from the short stay some city departments' own holding cells allow; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked at all. The jail's record of each person held, with the charges, is a public record of the arrest, and the court file takes over from there.
So far in 2026 the jail has held about 74 people on an average day, down from about 78 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 127 beds, and it ran at 61 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 Franklin County Sheriff's Office at franklincountyny.gov/departments/public_safety/sheriff_s_department... (page title: Welcome to Franklin County, NY), phone 518-483-3304, 45 Bare Hill Rd Malone, NY 12953, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on October 4, 2026.
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 Franklin County
An arrest in Franklin County can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the case index of the Franklin County Supreme and County Courts, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at franklincountyny.gov/departments/administrative/county_clerk/servic..., phone 800-320-2617); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at franklincountyny.gov/departments/public_safety/district_attorney_s_..., phone 518-481-1544).
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 Franklin 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 Franklin County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 518-483-3304.
- An arrest in Malone, Saranac Lake or Tupper Lake: 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, 518-481-1544, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Franklin County Supreme and County Courts, through the court records page at franklincountyny.gov, phone 800-320-2617.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based Record Review through the Division of Criminal Justice Services.
Cities in Franklin County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for three of the six cities in Franklin County: Malone, Saranac Lake and Tupper Lake. Chateaugay, Brushton and Burke 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 Franklin County Supreme and County Courts.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Franklin County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Malone (5,373)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Franklin County each year?
Malone reported 340 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the three agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 479 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Franklin County?
Ask the Franklin County Sheriff's Office at 518-483-3304; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at franklincountyny.gov.
Where are people arrested in Franklin County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Franklin County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Franklin 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 Franklin County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Franklin 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 Franklin 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.