Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones the agency reported to the FBI, through 2025. 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 between September 24, 2026 and September 30, 2026.
Ardmore, Oklahoma, in Carter County, has about 25,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and its arrests are reported to the FBI by an agency of its own. An arrest in the city leaves the same records whoever makes it: the arresting agency's report, the record of anyone held at the county jail, and, if the District Attorney files charges, a case in the Carter County District Court. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it, with the arrest counts the agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies and common questions.
Related guides: Ardmore public records, Carter County arrest records, Oklahoma arrest records and Oklahoma inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Ardmore
The FBI lists Ardmore with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Ardmore Police Department. It reported 882 arrests for 2025. 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 Carter County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 117 arrests for 2025.
How Many Arrests Ardmore 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.
- Ardmore: 882 for 2025, 1,134 for 2024, 1,043 for 2023, 806 for 2022, 718 for 2021 and 1,516 for 2020.
Ardmore's 882 arrests in 2025 were down 22 percent from 1,134 in 2024.
Across Carter County, the seven agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,135 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Ardmore Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Ardmore 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 2024 the jail held about 110 people, down from about 180 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 180 beds, and it ran at 100 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
A person sentenced to prison serves the sentence in a facility of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections, whose inmate locator is at okoffender.doc.ok.gov.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Ardmore
Whether someone was arrested in Ardmore, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Carter County District Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at cartercountyok.us/departments/court_clerk/index.php, phone (580) 223-5253); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at cartercountyok.us/departments/district_attorney/index.php, phone (580) 223-9674).
Statewide, OSCN and ODCR is the free online dockets of every Oklahoma district court.
Oklahoma is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: anyone can order a name-based criminal history search online, for $15 a search, through the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation. That record shows what agencies reported to the state, which is wider than one county's court index but can lag it.
Getting a Copy of an Arrest Record in Ardmore
An arrest report belongs to the agency whose officer wrote it, and that agency releases it, not the court or the jail. Under the Oklahoma Open Records Act the agency must answer promptly; the statute sets no number of days, and it may charge copying at no more than 25 cents a page.
- An arrest by the Ardmore police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at ardmorecity.org/m/directory/department?did=7 (page title: Staff Directory, Police Department), phone 580-223-1212, 23 S. Washington St Ardmore, OK 73401, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Carter County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, (580) 223-9674, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Carter County District Court, through the court records page at cartercountyok.us, phone (580) 223-5253.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The Carter County guide covers every agency in the county: Carter County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Ardmore each year?
Ardmore reported 882 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
Where are people arrested in Ardmore booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Carter County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Ardmore?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation: anyone can order a name-based criminal history search online, for $15. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Oklahoma Open Records Act.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Ardmore?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Ardmore police for its own arrests, the Carter County Sheriff's Office for the sheriff's. Under the Oklahoma Open Records Act the answer is due promptly; the statute sets no number of days.
Is this the official Ardmore 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.