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 on September 23, 2026.
Fulton County, New York, has about 52,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Fulton 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 Fulton 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: Fulton County public records, New York arrest records, New York inmate search and New York criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Fulton County
The Fulton County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Fulton County. It reported 410 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists three cities in Fulton County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Gloversville, 14,894 residents: 647 arrests reported for 2025.
- Johnstown, 8,027 residents: 249 arrests reported for 2025.
- Northville, 994 residents: 14 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.
The Dolgeville Village Police Department is listed by the FBI across two counties including Fulton County, so its arrests are not broken out for Fulton County here.
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Fulton 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.
- Gloversville: 647 for 2025, 582 for 2024, 579 for 2023 and 421 for 2020; 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
- Fulton County Sheriff's Office: 410 for 2025, 382 for 2024, 261 for 2023, 264 for 2022, 170 for 2020 and 291 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
- Johnstown: 249 for 2025, 155 for 2024, 157 for 2023, 99 for 2022, 148 for 2020 and 513 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
- Northville: 14 for 2025, 2 for 2024, 4 for 2023 and 0 for 2022.
Together, the four agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,320 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 1,320 in 2025 against 1,121 in 2024, up 18 percent.
Through May 2026, the three agencies with every month so far on file reported 490 arrests, against 532 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Fulton County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Fulton 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 99 people on an average day, down from about 100 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023, the last year with a capacity figure, was 167 beds, and it ran at 57 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 Fulton County Sheriff's Office at fultoncountyny.gov/sheriffs-office (page title: Sheriff's Office | FULTON COUNTY), phone (518) 736-2100, 2712 State Highway 29 PO Box 20 Johnstown, NY 12095, 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 Fulton County
An arrest in Fulton County can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: 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 fultoncountyny.gov/district-attorneys-office, phone (518) 736-5511).
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 Fulton County
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 Fulton County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (518) 736-2100.
- An arrest in Gloversville, Johnstown or Northville: 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) 736-5511, handles discovery for pending cases.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based Record Review through the Division of Criminal Justice Services.
Cities in Fulton County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for three of the five cities in Fulton County: Gloversville, Johnstown and Northville. Broadalbin and Mayfield 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 Fulton County Supreme and County Courts.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Fulton County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Gloversville (14,894)
- Johnstown (8,027)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Fulton County each year?
Gloversville reported 647 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the four agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 1,320 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Fulton County?
Ask the Fulton County Sheriff's Office at (518) 736-2100; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at fultoncountyny.gov/sheriffs-office.
Where are people arrested in Fulton County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Fulton County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Fulton 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 Fulton County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Fulton 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 Fulton 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.