Saratoga County Arrest Records: Who Makes Arrests, Where People Are Booked and How to Get the Report

Who Makes Arrests in Saratoga County

The Saratoga County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Saratoga County. It reported 1,039 arrests for 2025.

Arrests inside six 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:

• Saratoga Springs, 28,741 residents: 829 arrests reported for 2025.
• Mechanicville, 5,083 residents: 191 arrests reported for 2025.
• Ballston Spa, 4,930 residents: 105 arrests reported for 2024.
• South Glens Falls, 3,723 residents: 69 arrests reported for 2025.
• Waterford, 2,020 residents: 245 arrests reported for 2025.
• Stillwater, 1,759 residents: 50 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 Saratoga 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.

• Saratoga County Sheriff's Office: 1,039 for 2025, 1,177 for 2024, 1,277 for 2023, 1,255 for 2022, 947 for 2021 and 1,049 for 2020.
• Saratoga Springs: 829 for 2025, 862 for 2024, 818 for 2023, 830 for 2022 and 1,020 for 2020; 2021 is missing months.
• Waterford: 245 for 2025, 394 for 2023, 284 for 2022 and 53 for 2019; 2020, 2021 and 2024 are missing months.
• Mechanicville: 191 for 2025, 195 for 2023, 194 for 2022, 168 for 2020 and 232 for 2019; 2021 and 2024 are missing months.
• South Glens Falls: 69 for 2025, 52 for 2024, 74 for 2023, 79 for 2022, 46 for 2020 and 84 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
• Stillwater: 50 for 2025, 56 for 2024, 55 for 2023, 38 for 2022, 51 for 2020 and 83 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
• Ballston Spa: 105 for 2024, 70 for 2020 and 76 for 2019; 2021, 2022 and 2023 are missing months.

Together, the six agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 2,423 arrests that year. The four of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 1,987 in 2025 against 2,147 in 2024, down 7.5 percent.

Ballston Spa reported only part of 2025 (10 months) and is left out of the totals.

Booking: Where People Arrested in Saratoga County Are Held

A person kept in custody after an arrest in Saratoga County is held at the county jail, whichever agency made the arrest, apart from the short stay some city departments' own holding cells allow; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked at all. The jail's record of each person held, with the charges, is a public record of the arrest, and the court file takes over from there.

So far in 2026 the jail has held about 200 people on an average day, up from about 170 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023, the last year with a capacity figure, was 222 beds, and it ran at 75 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 Saratoga County Sheriff's Office at saratogacountyny.gov/departments/sheriffs-office (page title: Sheriff’s Office | County of Saratoga, New York), phone (518) 885-6761, 6012 County Farm Rd. Ballston Spa, NY 12020, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 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 Saratoga County

Whether someone was arrested in Saratoga 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 da.saratogacountyny.gov/about/staff, phone 518-885-2263).

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 Saratoga 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 Saratoga County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (518) 885-6761.
• An arrest in Saratoga Springs, Mechanicville, Ballston Spa, South Glens Falls, Waterford or Stillwater: 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, 518-885-2263, handles discovery for pending cases.
• Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based Record Review through the Division of Criminal Justice Services.

Cities in Saratoga County: Who Reports the Arrests

The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for six of the 11 cities in Saratoga County: Saratoga Springs, Mechanicville, Ballston Spa, South Glens Falls, Waterford and Stillwater. Corinth, Schuylerville, Round Lake, Victory and Galway 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 Saratoga County Supreme and County Courts.

SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Saratoga County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:

• Saratoga Springs (28,741)

Frequently Asked Questions

How many arrests are made in Saratoga County each year?

The Saratoga County Sheriff's Office reported 1,039 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the six agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 2,423 between them.

How do I find out if someone is in jail in Saratoga County?

Ask the Saratoga County Sheriff's Office at (518) 885-6761; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at saratogacountyny.gov.

Where are people arrested in Saratoga County booked?

Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Saratoga County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.

Are arrest records public in Saratoga 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 Saratoga County?

From the agency that made the arrest: the Saratoga 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 Saratoga 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.