Whitehouse Arrest Records: Who Makes Arrests, Where People Are Booked and How to Get the Report

Who Makes Arrests in Whitehouse

The FBI lists Whitehouse with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Whitehouse Police Department. It reported 27 arrests for 2024, its latest complete year. 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 Lucas County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 478 arrests for 2025.

The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Lucas County: the University of Toledo (campus police); Toledo Fire Department Fire Investigation Unit, the Toledo Metropolitan Park District and the Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority (other).

How Many Arrests Whitehouse 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.

• Whitehouse: 27 for 2024, 18 for 2022, 26 for 2021, 20 for 2020 and 36 for 2019; 2023 is missing months.

Across Lucas County, the ten agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 10,683 arrests between them.

Booking: Where People Arrested in Whitehouse Are Held

A person kept in custody after an arrest in Whitehouse 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 350 people, down from about 500 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 352 beds, and it ran at 141 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 Lucas County Sheriff's Office at co.lucas.oh.us/2992/Sheriff (page title: Sheriff | Lucas County, OH), phone 419-213-4000, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on October 9, 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 Whitehouse

Whether someone was arrested in Whitehouse, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Lucas County Court of Common Pleas, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at co.lucas.oh.us/118/Case-Information, phone 419-213-6901); the Prosecuting Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at co.lucas.oh.us/m/directory/department?did=11, phone (419) 213-4700).

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 Whitehouse

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 Whitehouse police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at whitehouseoh.gov/departments/police-department/police-report (page title: Police Report | Welcome to Whitehouse, Ohio), phone 419-877-9191, 6925 Providence Street Whitehouse, OH 43571, Monday - Thursday, 8:00am - 4:00pm., which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
• An arrest by the Lucas County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 419-213-4000.
• A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the Prosecuting Attorney, (419) 213-4700, handles discovery for pending cases.
• The court file of a case that was filed: the Lucas County Court of Common Pleas, through the court records page at co.lucas.oh.us/118/Case-Information, phone 419-213-6901.
• Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based WebCheck at any WebCheck location.

The Lucas County guide covers every agency in the county: Lucas County arrest records.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many arrests are made in Whitehouse each year?

Whitehouse reported 27 arrests to the FBI for 2024, its latest full year.

How do I find out if someone is in jail in Whitehouse?

Ask the Lucas County Sheriff's Office at 419-213-4000; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at co.lucas.oh.us/2992/Sheriff.

Where are people arrested in Whitehouse booked?

Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Lucas County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.

Are arrest records public in Whitehouse?

The court files of criminal cases in the Lucas 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 Whitehouse?

From the agency that made the arrest: the Whitehouse police for its own arrests, the Lucas 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.

Is this the official Whitehouse 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.