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.
Sandusky County, Ohio, has about 59,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Sandusky County Sheriff's Office, six city agencies and one other agency. 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 Sandusky 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: Sandusky County public records, Ohio arrest records, Ohio inmate search and Ohio criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Sandusky County
The Sandusky County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Sandusky County. It reported 1,152 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists six cities in Sandusky County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Fremont, 15,814 residents: 500 arrests reported for 2025.
- Bellevue, 8,166 residents: 1,152 arrests reported for 2025.
- Clyde, 6,360 residents: 153 arrests reported for 2020.
- Gibsonburg, 2,486 residents: 1,152 arrests reported for 2025.
- Woodville, 1,989 residents: 70 arrests reported for 2022.
- Green Springs, 1,302 residents: 1,152 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 one more agency in Sandusky County: the Sandusky County Park District (other).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Sandusky 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.
- Sandusky County Sheriff's Office: 1,152 for 2025, 1,152 for 2024, 1,146 for 2023, 1,132 for 2022, 919 for 2021 and 1,146 for 2020.
- Gibsonburg: 1,152 for 2025, 1,152 for 2024, 1,146 for 2023, 1,132 for 2022, 919 for 2021 and 1,146 for 2020.
- Green Springs: 1,152 for 2025, 1,152 for 2024, 1,146 for 2023, 1,132 for 2022, 919 for 2021 and 1,146 for 2020.
- Bellevue: 1,152 for 2025, 1,152 for 2024, 1,146 for 2023, 1,132 for 2022, 919 for 2021 and 1,146 for 2020.
- Fremont: 500 for 2025, 462 for 2024, 654 for 2022, 675 for 2021, 663 for 2020 and 978 for 2019; 2023 is missing months.
- Clyde: 153 for 2020 and 291 for 2019.
- Woodville: 70 for 2022 and 90 for 2021.
Together, the five agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 5,108 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 5,108 in 2025 against 5,070 in 2024, up 0.7 percent.
Through September 2026, the four agencies with every month so far on file reported 2,664 arrests, against 3,456 in the same months of 2025.
Woodville reported only part of 2025 (3 months) and is left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Sandusky County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Sandusky 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 80 people, down from about 99 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 119 beds, and it ran at 83 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 Sandusky County Sheriff's Office at sanduskycountyoh.gov/index.php?page=sheriff (page title: Sandusky County, Ohio | Sheriff), phone 419-332-2613, 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 Sandusky County
Whether someone was arrested in Sandusky County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Sandusky 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 sanduskycountyoh.gov/index.php?page=prosecutor, phone (419) 334-6222).
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at sanduskycountyoh.gov/index.php?page=county-courts (page title: Sandusky County, Ohio | County Courts), phone (419) 547-0915, belongs to a lower court, not to the Sandusky 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 Sandusky 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 Sandusky County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 419-332-2613.
- An arrest in Fremont, Bellevue, Clyde, Gibsonburg, Woodville or Green Springs: 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 the Sandusky County Park District: the records office of the agency involved.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the Prosecuting Attorney, (419) 334-6222, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: in the Sandusky County Court of Common Pleas it is kept by the Clerk of Courts. The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at sanduskycountyoh.gov, phone (419) 547-0915, is a lower court's.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based WebCheck at any WebCheck location.
Cities in Sandusky County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for six of the nine cities in Sandusky County: Fremont, Bellevue, Clyde, Gibsonburg, Woodville and Green Springs. Lindsey, Helena and Burgoon have no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Sandusky County Court of Common Pleas.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Sandusky 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 Sandusky County each year?
The Sandusky County Sheriff's Office reported 1,152 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the five agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 5,108 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Sandusky County?
Ask the Sandusky County Sheriff's Office at 419-332-2613; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at sanduskycountyoh.gov/index.php?page=sheriff.
Where are people arrested in Sandusky County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Sandusky County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Sandusky County?
The court files of criminal cases in the Sandusky 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 Sandusky County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Sandusky 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.
Is this the official Sandusky 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.