Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones the agency reported to the FBI, through 2025. 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.
Barberton, Ohio, in Summit County, has about 25,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and its arrests are reported to the FBI by an agency of its own. An arrest in the city leaves the same records whoever makes it: the arresting agency's report, the record of anyone held at the county jail, and, if the Prosecuting Attorney files charges, a case in the Summit County Court of Common Pleas. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it, with the arrest counts the agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies and common questions.
Related guides: Barberton public records, Summit County arrest records, Ohio arrest records and Ohio inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Barberton
The FBI lists Barberton with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Barberton Police Department. It reported 914 arrests for 2025. A city is listed separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.
Outside the city, the Summit County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 678 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Summit County: the University of Akron (campus police); the Akron Metro Regional Transit Authority (other).
How Many Arrests Barberton Reports
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.
- Barberton: 914 for 2025, 831 for 2024, 942 for 2023, 849 for 2022, 1,010 for 2021 and 932 for 2020.
Barberton's 914 arrests in 2025 were up 10 percent from 831 in 2024.
Through September 2026, Barberton reported 623 arrests, against 673 in the same months of 2025.
Across Summit County, the 22 agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 10,322 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Barberton Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Barberton 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.
On an average day in 2023 the jail held about 520 people, down from about 720 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 791 beds, and it ran at 66 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 Summit County Sheriff's Office at sheriff.summitoh.net/files/Current-Inmate-Roster.html (page title: Head Counts with Photos Report | ODY-365898), 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 Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction lists its inmates at appgateway.drc.ohio.gov/OffenderSearch.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Barberton
Whether someone was arrested in Barberton, and what came of it, shows up in three places: the custody page of the Summit County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Summit County Court of Common Pleas, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at clerkweb.summitoh.net); the Prosecuting Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at prosecutor.summitoh.net).
Ohio does not let the public search another person's statewide criminal history. The record kept by the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation goes to the person it belongs to and to employers and agencies the law authorizes; for everyone else the court's own case index is the public record of an arrest that led to a charge.
Getting a Copy of an Arrest Record in Barberton
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 Ohio Public Records Act the agency must answer promptly, within a reasonable period of time, and it may charge the actual cost of copying.
- An arrest by the Barberton police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at courtrecord.net/barberton-oh-police-departments (page title: Barberton Police Records for Free (Barberton, OH)), phone 330-848-6701, 576 West Park Avenue Barberton, OH 44203, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
- An arrest by the Summit County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the Prosecuting Attorney handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Summit County Court of Common Pleas, through the court records page at clerkweb.summitoh.net.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at clerkweb.summitoh.net/public-records-requests (page title: Public Records Requests | Summit County Clerk of Courts).
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based WebCheck at any WebCheck location.
The Summit County guide covers every agency in the county: Summit County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Barberton each year?
Barberton reported 914 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Barberton?
Look on the custody page of the Summit County Sheriff's Office at sheriff.summitoh.net. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Barberton booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Summit County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Barberton?
The court files of criminal cases in the Summit County Court of Common Pleas are public and can be looked up through the court. The statewide criminal history kept by the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation is not public; you can get your own. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Ohio Public Records Act.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Barberton?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Barberton police for its own arrests, the Summit County Sheriff's Office for the sheriff's. Under the Ohio Public Records Act the answer is due promptly, within a reasonable period of time; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at clerkweb.summitoh.net/public-records-requests.
Is this the official Barberton website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official city, county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.