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.
Oneida County, New York, has about 228,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Oneida County Sheriff's Office, 13 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 Oneida 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: Oneida County public records, New York arrest records, New York inmate search and New York criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Oneida County
The Oneida County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Oneida County. It reported 331 arrests for 2025.
Arrests inside 11 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:
- Utica, 63,660 residents: 1,300 arrests reported for 2025.
- Rome, 31,990 residents: 698 arrests reported for 2025.
- Whitesboro, 3,596 residents: 64 arrests reported for 2025.
- New York Mills, 3,197 residents: 39 arrests reported for 2025.
- Sherrill, 2,997 residents: 1 arrests reported for 2025.
- Yorkville, 2,592 residents: 366 arrests reported for 2025.
- Camden, 2,149 residents: 24 arrests reported for 2025.
- Boonville, 2,005 residents: 20 arrests reported for 2025.
- New Hartford, 1,866 residents: 438 arrests reported for 2025.
- Oriskany, 1,349 residents: 0 arrests reported for 2024.
- Vernon, 1,158 residents: 4 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 Oneida County: the Polytechnic Institute State University of New York Police (campus police).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Oneida 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.
- Utica: 1,300 for 2025, 1,326 for 2024, 1,542 for 2023, 1,495 for 2022, 1,410 for 2021 and 1,170 for 2020.
- Rome: 698 for 2025, 819 for 2024, 914 for 2023, 633 for 2022, 564 for 2021 and 547 for 2020.
- New Hartford: 438 for 2025, 464 for 2024, 481 for 2023, 508 for 2022, 384 for 2021 and 350 for 2020.
- Yorkville: 366 for 2025, 338 for 2024 and 310 for 2023.
- Oneida County Sheriff's Office: 331 for 2025, 314 for 2024, 306 for 2023, 256 for 2022, 287 for 2021 and 319 for 2020.
- Whitesboro: 64 for 2025, 115 for 2024, 120 for 2023 and 138 for 2022.
- Whitestown Town: 39 for 2025, 47 for 2024, 36 for 2023, 19 for 2020 and 59 for 2019; 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
- New York Mills: 39 for 2025, 64 for 2024, 86 for 2023, 85 for 2022, 50 for 2020 and 47 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
- Camden: 24 for 2025, 17 for 2023, 30 for 2022, 7 for 2020 and 45 for 2019; 2021 and 2024 are missing months.
- Boonville: 20 for 2025, 18 for 2024, 18 for 2023, 7 for 2022 and 7 for 2019; 2020 and 2021 are missing months.
- Vernon: 4 for 2025, 0 for 2024, 17 for 2023, 3 for 2022, 8 for 2020 and 12 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
- Sherrill: 1 for 2025, 8 for 2024, 7 for 2023, 9 for 2022, 12 for 2020 and 20 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
Together, the 12 agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 3,324 arrests that year. The 11 of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 3,300 in 2025 against 3,513 in 2024, down 6.1 percent.
Oriskany reported only part of 2025 (6 months) and is left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Oneida County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Oneida 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 320 people on an average day, down from about 360 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 624 beds, and it ran at 58 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 Oneida County Sheriff's Office at sheriff.oneidacountyny.gov/quick-links/inmate-list (page title: Inmate Information: Oneida County Sheriff's Office | Oneida County Sheriff's Office), phone 315-768-7804, 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 Oneida County
An arrest in Oneida County can be traced in three places, depending on where the case stands: the custody page of the Oneida County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Oneida County Supreme and County Courts, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at oneidacountyny.gov/departments/county-clerk/courts); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at oneidacountyny.gov/departments/district-attorney, phone (315) 798-5766).
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 Oneida 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 Oneida County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 315-768-7804.
- An arrest in Utica, Rome, Whitesboro, New York Mills, Sherrill, Yorkville or another of the cities listed above: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
- An arrest by the Polytechnic Institute 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, (315) 798-5766, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Oneida County Supreme and County Courts, through the court records page at oneidacountyny.gov.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based Record Review through the Division of Criminal Justice Services.
Cities in Oneida County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for 11 of the 19 cities in Oneida County: Utica, Rome, Whitesboro, New York Mills, Sherrill, Yorkville, Camden, Boonville, New Hartford, Oriskany and Vernon. Clinton, Waterville, Sylvan Beach, Oriskany Falls, Oneida Castle, Remsen, Holland Patent and Clayville have no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list. The FBI's list also carries the Kirkland Town Police Department and the Whitestown Town Police Department as city agencies in Oneida County; Kirkland Town and Whitestown Town 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 Oneida County Supreme and County Courts.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Oneida County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Oneida County each year?
Utica reported 1,300 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the 12 agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 3,324 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Oneida County?
Look on the custody page of the Oneida County Sheriff's Office at sheriff.oneidacountyny.gov, or call 315-768-7804. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Oneida County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Oneida County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Oneida 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 Oneida County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Oneida 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 Oneida 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.