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 2, 2026.
Onondaga County, New York, has about 470,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Onondaga County Sheriff's Office, 13 city agencies and four campus, state or other 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 Onondaga 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: Onondaga County public records, New York arrest records, New York inmate search and New York criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Onondaga County
The Onondaga County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Onondaga County. It reported 2,498 arrests for 2025.
Arrests inside ten 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:
- Syracuse, 146,097 residents: 7,237 arrests reported for 2025.
- Baldwinsville, 7,662 residents: 227 arrests reported for 2025.
- North Syracuse, 6,761 residents: 331 arrests reported for 2025.
- Solvay, 6,495 residents: 324 arrests reported for 2025.
- Manlius, 4,611 residents: 1,082 arrests reported for 2025.
- Skaneateles, 2,530 residents: 9 arrests reported for 2025.
- Liverpool, 2,257 residents: 163 arrests reported for 2025.
- Marcellus, 1,774 residents: 2 arrests reported for 2025.
- Camillus, 1,274 residents: 322 arrests reported for 2025.
- Jordan, 1,208 residents: 6 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 these agencies in Onondaga County: the Syracuse Regional Airport Authority and Onondaga County Parks (other); the Environmental Science State University of New York Police and the Upstate Medical State University of New York Police (campus police).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Onondaga 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.
- Syracuse: 7,237 for 2025, 7,352 for 2024, 7,058 for 2023, 6,313 for 2022, 8,447 for 2020 and 12,362 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
- Onondaga County Sheriff's Office: 2,498 for 2025, 2,709 for 2024, 3,052 for 2023, 2,563 for 2022, 2,877 for 2020 and 3,904 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
- Dewitt Town: 1,879 for 2025, 1,869 for 2024, 1,082 for 2023, 858 for 2022, 640 for 2020 and 914 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
- Manlius: 1,082 for 2025, 837 for 2024, 501 for 2023, 652 for 2020 and 958 for 2019; 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
- Geddes Town: 728 for 2025, 813 for 2024, 469 for 2023, 332 for 2022, 205 for 2020 and 274 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
- Cicero Town: 523 for 2025, 556 for 2024, 372 for 2022, 252 for 2020 and 273 for 2019; 2021 and 2023 are missing months.
- North Syracuse: 331 for 2025, 191 for 2024, 281 for 2020 and 235 for 2019; 2021, 2022 and 2023 are missing months.
- Solvay: 324 for 2025, 236 for 2024, 215 for 2023, 320 for 2022, 211 for 2020 and 351 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
- Camillus: 322 for 2025, 816 for 2024, 631 for 2023, 684 for 2022, 403 for 2020 and 536 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
- Baldwinsville: 227 for 2025, 344 for 2024, 222 for 2023, 157 for 2022, 108 for 2020 and 212 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
- Liverpool: 163 for 2025 and 258 for 2019; 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 are missing months.
- Skaneateles: 9 for 2025, 21 for 2024, 5 for 2023, 0 for 2022, 5 for 2020 and 19 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
Together, the 14 agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 15,331 arrests that year. The 12 of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 14,846 in 2025 against 14,931 in 2024, down 0.6 percent.
Through May 2026, the 11 agencies with every month so far on file reported 3,200 arrests, against 5,942 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Onondaga County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Onondaga 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 560 people on an average day, down from about 770 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023, the last year with a capacity figure, was 1,143 beds, and it ran at 45 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 Onondaga County Sheriff's Office at sheriff.ongov.net/custody/booking-section (page title: Booking Section | Onondaga County Sheriff's Office), 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 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 Onondaga County
Whether someone was arrested in Onondaga County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the custody page of the Onondaga 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.
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 Onondaga 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 Onondaga County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Syracuse, Baldwinsville, North Syracuse, Solvay, Manlius, Skaneateles or another of the cities listed above: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- An arrest by the Syracuse Regional Airport Authority, the Environmental Science State University of New York Police or Onondaga County Parks: the records office of the agency involved.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based Record Review through the Division of Criminal Justice Services.
Cities in Onondaga County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for ten of the 16 cities in Onondaga County: Syracuse, Baldwinsville, North Syracuse, Solvay, Manlius, Skaneateles, Liverpool, Marcellus, Camillus and Jordan. Fayetteville, Minoa, East Syracuse, Elbridge, Tully and Fabius have no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list. The FBI's list also carries the Dewitt Town Police Department, the Cicero Town Police Department and the Geddes Town Police Department as city agencies in Onondaga County; Dewitt Town, Cicero Town and Geddes 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 Onondaga County Supreme and County Courts.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Onondaga County each year?
Syracuse reported 7,237 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the 14 agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 15,331 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Onondaga County?
Look on the custody page of the Onondaga County Sheriff's Office at sheriff.ongov.net/custody/booking-section. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Onondaga County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Onondaga County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Onondaga 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 Onondaga County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Onondaga 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 Onondaga 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.