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.
Sullivan County, New York, has about 80,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Sullivan County Sheriff's Office, four city agencies and one other 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 Sullivan 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: Sullivan County public records, New York arrest records, New York inmate search and New York criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Sullivan County
The Sullivan County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Sullivan County. It reported 768 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists three cities in Sullivan County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Monticello, 7,228 residents: 241 arrests reported for 2025.
- Liberty, 5,136 residents: 437 arrests reported for 2025.
- Woodridge, 709 residents: 0 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 Sullivan County: the Sullivan County New York City Department of Environmental Police (other).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Sullivan County
Each agency reports its arrests to the FBI by month, and the FBI publishes them 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.
- Sullivan County Sheriff's Office: 768 for 2025, 577 for 2024, 644 for 2023 and 435 for 2020; 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
- Liberty: 437 for 2025, 330 for 2024, 336 for 2023 and 268 for 2022.
- Monticello: 241 for 2025, 272 for 2022, 451 for 2020 and 637 for 2019; 2021, 2023 and 2024 are missing months.
- Fallsburg Town: 152 for 2025, 155 for 2024 and 112 for 2023.
- Woodridge: 0 for 2025, 10 for 2023, 4 for 2022, 16 for 2020 and 10 for 2019; 2021 and 2024 are missing months.
Together, the five agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,598 arrests that year. The three of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 1,357 in 2025 against 1,062 in 2024, up 28 percent.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Sullivan County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Sullivan 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 110 people on an average day, down from about 130 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 186 beds, and it ran at 69 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 Sullivan County Sheriff's Office at sullivanny.gov/Departments/Sheriff (page title: Sheriff's Office | Sullivan County NY), phone 845-794-7102, 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 Sullivan County
An arrest in Sullivan County can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: 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 sullivanny.gov/Departments/Districtattorney, phone 845-794-3344).
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 Sullivan 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 Sullivan County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 845-794-7102.
- An arrest in Monticello, Liberty or Woodridge: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- An arrest by the Sullivan County New York City Department of Environmental Police: the records office of the agency involved.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 845-794-3344, handles discovery for pending cases.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based Record Review through the Division of Criminal Justice Services.
Cities in Sullivan County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for three of the six cities in Sullivan County: Monticello, Liberty and Woodridge. Wurtsboro, Bloomingburg and Jeffersonville have no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list. The FBI's list also carries the Fallsburg Town Police Department as a city agency in Sullivan County; Fallsburg Town 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 Sullivan County Supreme and County Courts.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Sullivan County each year?
The Sullivan County Sheriff's Office reported 768 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the five agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 1,598 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Sullivan County?
Ask the Sullivan County Sheriff's Office at 845-794-7102; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at sullivanny.gov/Departments/Sheriff.
Where are people arrested in Sullivan County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Sullivan County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Sullivan 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 Sullivan County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Sullivan 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 Sullivan 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.