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 on September 23, 2026.
Clermont County, Ohio, has about 214,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Clermont County Sheriff's Office and 11 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 Prosecuting Attorney files charges, a case in the Clermont County Court of Common Pleas. 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: Clermont County public records, Ohio arrest records, Ohio inmate search and Ohio criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Clermont County
The Clermont County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Clermont County. It reported 1,009 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists seven cities in Clermont County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Milford, 6,433 residents: 64 arrests reported for 2025.
- New Richmond, 2,795 residents: 20 arrests reported for 2025.
- Bethel, 2,684 residents: 48 arrests reported for 2025.
- Williamsburg, 2,645 residents: 61 arrests reported for 2023.
- Batavia, 2,026 residents: 45 arrests reported for 2025.
- Owensville, 819 residents.
- Felicity, 661 residents.
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.
The Loveland Police Department is listed by the FBI across three counties including Clermont County, so its arrests are not broken out for Clermont County here.
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Clermont County
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.
- Union Township: 1,268 for 2025, 1,193 for 2024, 1,156 for 2023, 1,049 for 2022 and 1,217 for 2019; 2020 and 2021 are missing months.
- Clermont County Sheriff's Office: 1,009 for 2025, 537 for 2024, 902 for 2023, 958 for 2022, 970 for 2021 and 1,082 for 2020.
- Miami Township: 408 for 2025, 541 for 2024, 545 for 2023, 546 for 2022, 740 for 2021 and 817 for 2020.
- Goshen Township: 148 for 2025, 161 for 2024, 196 for 2023, 316 for 2022, 285 for 2021 and 328 for 2020.
- Milford: 64 for 2025, 51 for 2024, 131 for 2022, 74 for 2021, 147 for 2020 and 138 for 2019; 2023 is missing months.
- Bethel: 48 for 2025, 48 for 2024, 33 for 2023, 30 for 2022, 58 for 2020 and 113 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
- Batavia: 45 for 2025, 54 for 2024, 92 for 2023, 167 for 2022, 181 for 2021 and 192 for 2020.
- New Richmond: 20 for 2025, 28 for 2024, 44 for 2023, 41 for 2022, 34 for 2020 and 79 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
- Williamsburg: 61 for 2023, 40 for 2022, 56 for 2021, 78 for 2020 and 91 for 2019.
Together, the eight agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 3,010 arrests that year. The seven of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 2,001 in 2025 against 2,076 in 2024, down 3.6 percent.
Through August 2026, the six agencies with every month so far on file reported 1,221 arrests, against 1,090 in the same months of 2025.
Felicity, Owensville and Williamsburg reported only part of 2025 (2 months, 11 months and 8 months) and are left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Clermont County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Clermont 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.
On an average day in 2023 the jail held about 330 people, down from about 380 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 370 beds, and it ran at 89 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 Clermont County Sheriff's Office at clermontsheriff.org/jail-inmate-search (page title: Sheriff's Office | Jail Inmate Search), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 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 Clermont County
Whether someone was arrested in Clermont County, and what came of it, shows up in three places: the custody page of the Clermont County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Clermont 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 clermontprosecutor.org).
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at municipalclerk.clermontcountyohio.gov/case-access (page title: Municipal Clerk of Court | Case Access), belongs to a lower court, not to the Clermont 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 Clermont 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 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 Clermont County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Milford, New Richmond, Bethel, Williamsburg, Batavia, Owensville or another of the cities listed above: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- 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: in the Clermont County Court of Common Pleas it is kept by the Clerk of Courts. The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at municipalclerk.clermontcountyohio.gov, is a lower court's.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at comm.clermontcountyohio.gov (page title: 911 Communications Center | Public Records Requests).
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based WebCheck at any WebCheck location.
Cities in Clermont County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for seven of the ten cities in Clermont County: Milford, New Richmond, Bethel, Williamsburg, Batavia, Owensville and Felicity. Moscow, Neville and Chilo have no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list. The FBI's list also carries Goshen Township Police Department, Clermont County, Miami Township Police Department, Clermont County, Union Township Police Department, Clermont County and one more as city agencies in Clermont County; Goshen Township, Miami Township, Union Township and one more 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 Clermont County Court of Common Pleas.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Clermont County each year?
Union Township reported 1,268 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the eight agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 3,010 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Clermont County?
Look on the custody page of the Clermont County Sheriff's Office at clermontsheriff.org/jail-inmate-search. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Clermont County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Clermont County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Clermont County?
The court files of criminal cases in the Clermont 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 Clermont County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Clermont County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. 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 comm.clermontcountyohio.gov.
Is this the official Clermont 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.