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 September 25, 2026.
Parma Heights, Ohio, in Cuyahoga County, has about 21,000 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 Cuyahoga 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: Parma Heights public records, Cuyahoga County arrest records, Ohio arrest records and Ohio inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Parma Heights
The FBI lists Parma Heights with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Parma Heights Police Department. It reported 145 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 Cuyahoga County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 691 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Cuyahoga County: Cleveland State University, Cuyahoga Community College, Baldwin Wallace University and Notre Dame College (campus police); the Cleveland Metropolitan Park District and the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (other); Cleveland Lakefront State Parks (state agency).
How Many Arrests Parma Heights 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.
- Parma Heights: 145 for 2025, 149 for 2024, 149 for 2023, 160 for 2022 and 129 for 2021.
Parma Heights's 145 arrests in 2025 were down 2.7 percent from 149 in 2024.
Across Cuyahoga County, the 47 agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 16,466 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Parma Heights Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Parma Heights 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.
On an average day in 2023 the jail held about 1,710 people, down from about 2,350 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 1,896 beds, and it ran at 90 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 Cuyahoga County Sheriff's Office at cuyahogacounty.gov/sheriff/corrections-jail (page title: Corrections/Jail), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.
A person sentenced to prison serves the sentence in a facility of the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, whose inmate locator is at appgateway.drc.ohio.gov/OffenderSearch.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Parma Heights
Whether someone was arrested in Parma Heights, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at cpdocket.cp.cuyahogacounty.gov); the Prosecuting Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at cuyahogacounty.gov/topics/prosecutor).
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 Parma Heights
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 Parma Heights police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at parmaheightsoh.gov/accident-reports-public-records (page title: Accident Reports | Public Records | City of Parma Heights), phone (440) 884-1235, Monday - Friday 9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m., which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
- An arrest by the Cuyahoga 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 Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas, through the court records page at cpdocket.cp.cuyahogacounty.gov.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at cuyahogacounty.gov/public-records-request (page title: Public Records Request).
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based WebCheck at any WebCheck location.
The Cuyahoga County guide covers every agency in the county: Cuyahoga County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Parma Heights each year?
Parma Heights reported 145 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Parma Heights?
Ask the Cuyahoga County Sheriff's Office; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at cuyahogacounty.gov/sheriff/corrections-jail.
Where are people arrested in Parma Heights booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Cuyahoga County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Parma Heights?
The court files of criminal cases in the Cuyahoga 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 Parma Heights?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Parma Heights police for its own arrests, the Cuyahoga 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 cuyahogacounty.gov/public-records-request.
Is this the official Parma Heights 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.