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

Who Makes Arrests in Youngstown

The FBI lists Youngstown with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Youngstown Police Department. It reported 847 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 Mahoning County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 96 arrests for 2025.

The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Mahoning County: Youngstown State University (campus police); Mill Creek Metropark and Mahoning Valley Law Enforcement Task Force (other).

How Many Arrests Youngstown Reports

The FBI publishes every agency's monthly arrest counts 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.

• Youngstown: 847 for 2024, 1,214 for 2023, 1,064 for 2022 and 974 for 2021.

Youngstown's 847 arrests in 2024 were down 30 percent from 1,214 in 2023.

Across Mahoning County, the 15 agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 3,865 arrests between them.

Booking: Where People Arrested in Youngstown Are Held

The county jail is where a person arrested in Youngstown 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 420 people, down from about 480 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 562 beds, and it ran at 86 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.

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 Youngstown

An arrest in Youngstown can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the case index of the Mahoning County Court of Common Pleas, kept by the Clerk of Courts, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date; the Prosecuting Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at prosecutor.mahoningcountyoh.gov/resources/faq, phone 330-740-2073).

The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at ecourts.mahoningcountyoh.gov/eservices/home.page.2 (page title: Mahoning County Court View), belongs to a lower court, not to the Mahoning County Court of Common Pleas.

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 Youngstown

An arrest report belongs to the agency whose officer wrote it, and that agency releases it, not the court or the jail. 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 Youngstown police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at youngstownohio.gov/police (page title: City of Youngstown, Ohio), phone (330) 747-9324, 1639 Mahoning Avenue Youngstown, OH 44509, Monday - Friday, 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
• An arrest by the Mahoning County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
• A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the Prosecuting Attorney, 330-740-2073, handles discovery for pending cases.
• The court file of a case that was filed: in the Mahoning County Court of Common Pleas it is kept by the Clerk of Courts. The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at ecourts.mahoningcountyoh.gov, is a lower court's.
• Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at mahoningcountyoh.gov (page title: Public Records Request | Mahoning County, OH).
• Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based WebCheck at any WebCheck location.

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

Frequently Asked Questions

How many arrests are made in Youngstown each year?

Youngstown reported 847 arrests to the FBI for 2024, its latest full year.

Where are people arrested in Youngstown booked?

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

Are arrest records public in Youngstown?

The court files of criminal cases in the Mahoning 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 Youngstown?

From the agency that made the arrest: the Youngstown police for its own arrests, the Mahoning 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 mahoningcountyoh.gov.

Is this the official Youngstown 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.