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.
Livingston County, New York, has about 62,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Livingston County Sheriff's Office, six city agencies and one campus agency. 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 Livingston 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: Livingston County public records, New York arrest records, New York inmate search and New York criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Livingston County
The Livingston County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Livingston County. It reported 664 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:
- Geneseo, 7,722 residents: 176 arrests reported for 2024.
- Dansville, 4,345 residents: 222 arrests reported for 2024.
- Mount Morris, 2,847 residents: 129 arrests reported for 2020.
- Caledonia, 2,086 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.
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Livingston County: the Geneseo State University of New York Police (campus police).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Livingston 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.
- Nunda Town and Village: 1,152 for 2025, 1,152 for 2024, 1,146 for 2023, 1,132 for 2022, 919 for 2021 and 1,146 for 2020.
- Livingston County Sheriff's Office: 664 for 2025, 619 for 2024, 848 for 2023, 560 for 2022, 623 for 2021 and 1,139 for 2019; 2020 is missing months.
- Dansville: 222 for 2024, 244 for 2023, 244 for 2022, 408 for 2020 and 388 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
- Geneseo: 176 for 2024, 220 for 2023, 185 for 2022, 131 for 2020 and 225 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
- Mount Morris: 129 for 2020 and 143 for 2019.
- Avon Village: 29 for 2025.
- Caledonia: 0 for 2025 and 2 for 2020; 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 are missing months.
Together, the four agencies with all twelve months of 2023 on file reported 2,458 arrests that year. The three of them with both 2023 and 2022 complete reported 1,610 in 2023 against 1,561 in 2022, up 3.1 percent.
Mount Morris reported only part of 2023 (5 months) and is left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Livingston County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Livingston 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 120 people on an average day, down from about 130 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 194 beds, and it ran at 67 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 Livingston County Sheriff's Office at livcoso.org/inmate-roster/filters/current/booking_time=desc/1 (page title: Inmate Roster | Livingston County Sheriff's Office | Sort Booking Time | Descending | Page 1), 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 Livingston County
Whether someone was arrested in Livingston County, and what came of it, shows up in three places: the custody page of the Livingston County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; 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 livingstoncountyny.gov/m/newsflash/home/detail/1590, phone 585-243-7270).
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 Livingston 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 Livingston County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Geneseo, Dansville, Mount Morris or Caledonia: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- An arrest by the Geneseo State University of New York Police: the records office of the agency involved.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 585-243-7270, handles discovery for pending cases.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at livingstoncountyny.gov/1356/Records-Request (page title: Records Request | Livingston County, NY).
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based Record Review through the Division of Criminal Justice Services.
Cities in Livingston County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for four of the nine cities in Livingston County: Geneseo, Dansville, Mount Morris and Caledonia. Avon, Lima, Livonia, Nunda and Leicester have no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list. The FBI's list also carries the Nunda Town and Village Police Department and the Avon Village Police Department as city agencies in Livingston County; Nunda Town and Village and Avon Village are not among the cities above.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Livingston County Supreme and County Courts.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Livingston County each year?
Nunda Town and Village reported 1,152 arrests to the FBI for 2025. For 2023, the latest year most of the agencies in Livingston County sent in full, the four with every month on file reported 2,458 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Livingston County?
Look on the custody page of the Livingston County Sheriff's Office at livcoso.org. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Livingston County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Livingston County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Livingston 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 Livingston County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Livingston 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; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at livingstoncountyny.gov/1356/Records-Request.
Is this the official Livingston 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.