SearchSystems Editorial

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.

About this guide

Cuyahoga County, Ohio, has about 1.2 million residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Cuyahoga County Sheriff's Office, 58 city agencies and seven campus, state or other 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 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 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: Cuyahoga County public records, Ohio arrest records, Ohio inmate search and Ohio criminal records.

Who Makes Arrests in Cuyahoga County

The Cuyahoga County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Cuyahoga County. It reported 691 arrests for 2025.

Arrests inside 56 of the county's cities are reported to the FBI by an agency of the city's own, listed here with the Census population and what each reported, the largest twelve first; the rest are named in the cities section below:

  • Cleveland, 365,379 residents: 3,022 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Parma, 79,350 residents: 1,147 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Lakewood, 49,517 residents: 1,167 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Euclid, 48,421 residents: 319 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Strongsville, 45,768 residents: 774 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Cleveland Heights, 44,064 residents: 714 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Westlake, 34,232 residents: 383 arrests reported for 2024.
  • North Olmsted, 31,690 residents: 322 arrests reported for 2025.
  • North Royalton, 30,894 residents: 363 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Garfield Heights, 29,014 residents: 467 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Shaker Heights, 28,689 residents: 61 arrests reported for 2025.
  • Solon, 23,875 residents: 291 arrests reported for 2025.

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 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 Each Agency Reports in Cuyahoga County

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.

  • Cleveland: 3,022 for 2025, 3,415 for 2024, 3,377 for 2023, 2,973 for 2022, 3,692 for 2021 and 3,402 for 2020.
  • Lakewood: 1,167 for 2025, 1,181 for 2024, 1,048 for 2023, 924 for 2022, 718 for 2021 and 768 for 2020.
  • North Randall: 1,152 for 2025, 1,152 for 2024, 1,146 for 2023, 1,132 for 2022, 919 for 2021 and 1,146 for 2020.
  • Woodmere: 1,152 for 2025, 1,152 for 2024, 1,146 for 2023, 1,132 for 2022, 919 for 2021 and 1,146 for 2020.
  • Parma: 1,147 for 2025, 1,112 for 2024, 1,480 for 2023, 1,673 for 2022, 1,757 for 2021 and 1,073 for 2020.
  • Strongsville: 774 for 2025, 808 for 2024, 539 for 2023, 596 for 2022, 641 for 2021 and 1,056 for 2020.
  • Cleveland Heights: 714 for 2025, 560 for 2024, 488 for 2023, 658 for 2022, 571 for 2021 and 723 for 2020.
  • Cuyahoga County Sheriff's Office: 691 for 2025, 895 for 2024, 165 for 2023, 19 for 2022, 23 for 2021 and 5 for 2020.
  • Brooklyn: 586 for 2025 and 504 for 2024.
  • Rocky River: 499 for 2025, 437 for 2024, 321 for 2023, 259 for 2022, 188 for 2021 and 211 for 2020.
  • Garfield Heights: 467 for 2025, 654 for 2024, 583 for 2023, 532 for 2022, 526 for 2021 and 622 for 2020.
  • South Euclid: 432 for 2025, 493 for 2024, 354 for 2023 and 406 for 2022.

Together, the 47 agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 16,466 arrests that year. The 43 of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 16,008 in 2025 against 16,675 in 2024, down 4 percent.

Through May 2026, the 36 agencies with every month so far on file reported 4,852 arrests, against 5,363 in the same months of 2025.

Maple Heights, Olmsted Falls, Valley View, Highland Hills and seven more reported only part of 2025 (7 months, 11 months, 11 months and 3 months) and are left out of the totals.

Booking: Where People Arrested in Cuyahoga County Are Held

The county jail is where a person arrested in Cuyahoga County 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 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 Cuyahoga County

An arrest in Cuyahoga County can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: 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 Cuyahoga 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 Cuyahoga County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
  • An arrest in Cleveland, Parma, Lakewood, Euclid, Strongsville, Cleveland Heights or another of the cities listed above: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
  • An arrest by Cleveland State University, the Cleveland Metropolitan Park District or Cuyahoga Community College: the records office of the agency involved.
  • 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.

Cities in Cuyahoga County: Who Reports the Arrests

The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for every one of the 56 cities in Cuyahoga County: the twelve named above and Maple Heights, Rocky River, South Euclid, Parma Heights, Mayfield Heights, Broadview Heights, Brook Park, Berea, Fairview Park, Bay Village, Middleburg Heights, Brecksville, Beachwood, Lyndhurst, Warrensville Heights, East Cleveland, University Heights, Bedford, Seven Hills, Brooklyn, Bedford Heights, Richmond Heights, Olmsted Falls, Highland Heights, Independence, Pepper Pike, Chagrin Falls, Orange, Moreland Hills, Mayfield, Gates Mills, Walton Hills, Valley View, Newburgh Heights, Brooklyn Heights, Bratenahl, Glenwillow, North Randall, Bentleyville, Hunting Valley, Highland Hills, Woodmere, Cuyahoga Heights and Linndale. The FBI's list also carries the Oakwood Village Police Department and the Olmsted Township Police Department as city agencies in Cuyahoga County; Oakwood Village and Olmsted Township 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 Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas.

SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Cuyahoga County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:

Frequently Asked Questions

How many arrests are made in Cuyahoga County each year?

Cleveland reported 3,022 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the 47 agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 16,466 between them.

How do I find out if someone is in jail in Cuyahoga County?

Ask the Cuyahoga County Sheriff's Office; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at cuyahogacounty.gov/sheriff/corrections-jail.

Where are people arrested in Cuyahoga County 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 Cuyahoga County?

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 Cuyahoga County?

From the agency that made the arrest: the Cuyahoga 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 cuyahogacounty.gov/public-records-request.

Is this the official Cuyahoga 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.