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.
Steuben County, New York, has about 92,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Steuben County Sheriff's Office and ten 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 Steuben 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: Steuben County public records, New York arrest records, New York inmate search and New York criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Steuben County
The Steuben County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Steuben County. It reported 309 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists nine cities in Steuben County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Corning, 10,605 residents: 494 arrests reported for 2025.
- Hornell, 8,078 residents.
- Canisteo, 2,162 residents: 183 arrests reported for 2019.
- Painted Post, 1,721 residents: 28 arrests reported for 2020.
- Wayland, 1,694 residents: 17 arrests reported for 2024.
- Addison, 1,558 residents: 11 arrests reported for 2025.
- North Hornell, 765 residents.
- Cohocton, 713 residents: 14 arrests reported for 2019.
- Hammondsport, 571 residents: 3 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 Steuben 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.
- Corning: 494 for 2025, 621 for 2024, 603 for 2023, 567 for 2022 and 564 for 2020; 2021 is missing months.
- Steuben County Sheriff's Office: 309 for 2025, 350 for 2024, 322 for 2023, 334 for 2022, 309 for 2021 and 374 for 2020.
- Addison: 11 for 2025, 0 for 2024, 5 for 2023, 4 for 2022, 8 for 2020 and 9 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
- Wayland: 17 for 2024, 2 for 2022 and 24 for 2020; 2021 and 2023 are missing months.
- Hammondsport: 3 for 2025, 4 for 2023 and 2 for 2022; 2024 is missing months.
- Bath Village: 312 for 2025, 350 for 2024, 131 for 2021, 138 for 2020 and 252 for 2019; 2022 and 2023 are missing months.
- Canisteo: 183 for 2019.
- Painted Post: 28 for 2020 and 35 for 2019.
- Cohocton: 14 for 2019.
Together, the five agencies with all twelve months of 2022 on file reported 909 arrests that year. The one of them with both 2022 and 2021 complete reported 334 in 2022 against 309 in 2021, up 8.1 percent.
Canisteo, Bath Village and Cohocton reported only part of 2022 (11 months, 9 months and 1 month) and are left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Steuben County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Steuben 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 160 people on an average day, up from about 150 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 260 beds, and it ran at 59 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 Steuben County Sheriff's Office at sheriff.steubencountyny.gov/inmateSearch (page title: Incarcerated Individuals Search | Steuben County Sheriff, NY), 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 Steuben County
An arrest in Steuben County can be traced in three places, depending on where the case stands: the custody page of the Steuben 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; the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at steubencountyny.gov/184/District-Attorney, phone 607-664-2270).
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 Steuben County
The report of an arrest is released by the agency that made it; the jail and the court hold their own records of the same event, but not the report. 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 Steuben County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Corning, Hornell, Canisteo, Painted Post, Wayland, Addison 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.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 607-664-2270, handles discovery for pending cases.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based Record Review through the Division of Criminal Justice Services.
Cities in Steuben County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for nine of the 15 cities in Steuben County: Corning, Hornell, Canisteo, Painted Post, Wayland, Addison, North Hornell, Cohocton and Hammondsport. Bath, South Corning, Avoca, Arkport, Savona and Riverside have no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list. The FBI's list also carries the Bath Village Police Department as a city agency in Steuben County; Bath Village is 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 Steuben County Supreme and County Courts.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Steuben 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 Steuben County each year?
Corning reported 494 arrests to the FBI for 2025. For 2022, the latest year most of the agencies in Steuben County sent in full, the five with every month on file reported 909 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Steuben County?
Look on the custody page of the Steuben County Sheriff's Office at sheriff.steubencountyny.gov/inmateSearch. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Steuben County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Steuben County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Steuben 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 Steuben County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Steuben 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 Steuben 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.