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 9, 2026.
Madison County, New York, has about 67,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Madison County Sheriff's Office, five 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 Madison 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: Madison County public records, New York arrest records, New York inmate search and New York criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Madison County
The Madison County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Madison County. It reported 324 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists five cities in Madison County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Oneida, 10,066 residents: 536 arrests reported for 2025.
- Chittenango, 4,780 residents: 23 arrests reported for 2025.
- Canastota, 4,435 residents: 62 arrests reported for 2025.
- Hamilton, 4,037 residents: 2 arrests reported for 2025.
- Cazenovia, 2,730 residents: 12 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 Madison County: the Morrisville State University of New York Police (campus police).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Madison County
Each agency reports its arrests to the FBI by month, and the FBI publishes them 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.
- Oneida: 536 for 2025, 565 for 2024, 672 for 2023, 865 for 2022, 888 for 2020 and 837 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
- Madison County Sheriff's Office: 324 for 2025, 421 for 2024, 446 for 2023, 460 for 2022 and 446 for 2020; 2021 is missing months.
- Canastota: 62 for 2025, 144 for 2024, 103 for 2023, 132 for 2022 and 187 for 2019; 2020 and 2021 are missing months.
- Chittenango: 23 for 2025, 50 for 2024, 33 for 2023, 92 for 2020 and 126 for 2019; 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
- Cazenovia: 12 for 2025, 22 for 2024, 27 for 2022, 25 for 2020 and 46 for 2019; 2021 and 2023 are missing months.
- Hamilton: 2 for 2025, 0 for 2024, 19 for 2023, 43 for 2022, 17 for 2020 and 70 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
Together, the six agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 959 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 959 in 2025 against 1,202 in 2024, down 20 percent.
Through May 2026, the five agencies with every month so far on file reported 416 arrests, against 367 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Madison County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Madison 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 59 people on an average day, down from about 89 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 126 beds, and it ran at 71 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 Madison County Sheriff's Office at madisoncounty.ny.gov/3010/Sheriff (page title: Sheriff | Madison County, NY), phone 315-366-2482, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on October 9, 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 Madison County
For Madison County the place to look is the case index of the Madison County Supreme and County Courts, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at madisoncounty.ny.gov/174/County-Clerk, phone 315-366-2261).
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 Madison 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 Madison County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 315-366-2482.
- An arrest in Oneida, Chittenango, Canastota, Hamilton or Cazenovia: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- An arrest by the Morrisville State University of New York Police: the records office of the agency involved.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Madison County Supreme and County Courts, through the court records page at madisoncounty.ny.gov/174/County-Clerk, phone 315-366-2261.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at madisoncounty.ny.gov (page title: Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) | Madison County, NY).
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based Record Review through the Division of Criminal Justice Services.
The other Madison County guides go further: warrants, criminal records, court records, police reports, traffic tickets, divorce records and property records.
Cities in Madison County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for five of the 11 cities in Madison County: Oneida, Chittenango, Canastota, Hamilton and Cazenovia. Morrisville, Earlville, Wampsville, Munnsville, DeRuyter and Madison 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 Madison County Supreme and County Courts.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Madison County each year?
Oneida reported 536 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the six agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 959 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Madison County?
Ask the Madison County Sheriff's Office at 315-366-2482; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at madisoncounty.ny.gov/3010/Sheriff.
Where are people arrested in Madison County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Madison County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Madison 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 Madison County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Madison 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 madisoncounty.ny.gov.
Is this the official Madison 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.