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 4, 2026.
Wayne County, New York, has about 91,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Wayne County Sheriff's Office and six 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 Wayne 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: Wayne County public records, New York arrest records, New York inmate search and New York criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Wayne County
The Wayne County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Wayne County. It reported 477 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:
- Newark, 8,932 residents: 176 arrests reported for 2025.
- Palmyra, 3,263 residents: 86 arrests reported for 2025.
- Wolcott, 1,575 residents: 0 arrests reported for 2024.
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 Wayne 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.
- Wayne County Sheriff's Office: 477 for 2025, 488 for 2024 and 608 for 2023.
- Newark: 176 for 2025, 221 for 2024, 147 for 2023, 193 for 2022, 307 for 2020 and 288 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
- Palmyra: 86 for 2025, 61 for 2024, 53 for 2023, 24 for 2020 and 59 for 2019; 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
- Clyde Village: 0 for 2025, 8 for 2024, 0 for 2023, 4 for 2022, 31 for 2020 and 36 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
- Macedon Town and Village: 67 for 2020 and 140 for 2019.
- Wolcott: 0 for 2024, 0 for 2023 and 0 for 2022.
Together, the four agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 739 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 739 in 2025 against 778 in 2024, down 5 percent.
Through March 2026, the three agencies with every month so far on file reported 127 arrests, against 203 in the same months of 2025.
Macedon Town and Village and Wolcott reported only part of 2025 (4 months and 5 months) and are left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Wayne County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Wayne 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 60 people on an average day, down from about 72 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023, the last year with a capacity figure, was 109 beds, and it ran at 52 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 Wayne County Sheriff's Office at waynecosheriff.org/inmatesearch (page title: Inmate Search | Wayne County Sheriff's Office, NY), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on October 4, 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 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 Wayne County
Whether someone was arrested in Wayne County, and what came of it, shows up in three places: the custody page of the Wayne County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Wayne County Supreme and County Courts, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at waynecountyny.gov/189/Court); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at waynecountyny.gov/195/District-Attorney, phone 315-946-5905).
Statewide, eCourts is the Unified Court System's free online case search (WebCivil, WebCrims and WebFamily).
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 Wayne 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 Wayne County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Newark, Palmyra or Wolcott: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 315-946-5905, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Wayne County Supreme and County Courts, through the court records page at waynecountyny.gov/189/Court.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based Record Review through the Division of Criminal Justice Services.
Cities in Wayne County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for three of the seven cities in Wayne County: Newark, Palmyra and Wolcott. Clyde, Sodus, Sodus Point and Red Creek have no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list. The FBI's list also carries the Clyde Village Police Department, the Sodus Village Police Department and the Macedon Town and Village Police Department as city agencies in Wayne County; Clyde Village, Sodus Village and Macedon Town and Village 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 Wayne County Supreme and County Courts.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Wayne County each year?
The Wayne County Sheriff's Office reported 477 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the four agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 739 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Wayne County?
Look on the custody page of the Wayne County Sheriff's Office at waynecosheriff.org/inmatesearch. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Wayne County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Wayne County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Wayne 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 Wayne County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Wayne 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 Wayne 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.