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.
Orleans County, New York, has about 40,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Orleans 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 Orleans 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: Orleans County public records, New York arrest records, New York inmate search and New York criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Orleans County
The Orleans County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Orleans County. It reported 266 arrests for 2025.
Arrests inside three 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:
- Medina, 5,912 residents: 136 arrests reported for 2025.
- Albion, 5,704 residents: 192 arrests reported for 2025.
- Holley, 1,726 residents: 9 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.
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Orleans 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.
- Orleans County Sheriff's Office: 266 for 2025, 209 for 2023, 131 for 2022 and 462 for 2019; 2020, 2021 and 2024 are missing months.
- Albion: 192 for 2025, 137 for 2023, 170 for 2022, 234 for 2020 and 270 for 2019; 2021 and 2024 are missing months.
- Medina: 136 for 2025, 139 for 2024, 151 for 2023, 183 for 2022, 237 for 2020 and 464 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
- Holley: 9 for 2025, 13 for 2024, 28 for 2023, 16 for 2020 and 24 for 2019; 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
Together, the four agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 603 arrests that year. The two of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 145 in 2025 against 152 in 2024, down 4.6 percent.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Orleans County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Orleans 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 38 people on an average day, down from about 59 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 82 beds, and it ran at 72 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 Orleans County Sheriff's Office at sheriff.orleanscountyny.gov (page title: Orleans County Sheriff’s Office, NY), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on October 9, 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 Orleans County
Whether someone was arrested in Orleans County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: 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 orleanscountyny.gov/departments/court_and_law/district_attorney/dis..., phone (585) 590-4130).
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 Orleans 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 Orleans County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Medina, Albion or Holley: 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, (585) 590-4130, handles discovery for pending cases.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based Record Review through the Division of Criminal Justice Services.
The other Orleans County guides go further: warrants, criminal records, court records, police reports, traffic tickets, DUI, divorce records and property records.
Cities in Orleans County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for three of the four cities in Orleans County: Medina, Albion and Holley. Lyndonville has 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 Orleans County Supreme and County Courts.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Orleans County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Albion (5,704)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Orleans County each year?
The Orleans County Sheriff's Office reported 266 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the four agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 603 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Orleans County?
Ask the Orleans County Sheriff's Office; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at sheriff.orleanscountyny.gov.
Where are people arrested in Orleans County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Orleans County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Orleans 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 Orleans County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Orleans 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 Orleans 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.