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 26, 2026.
Bartlesville, Oklahoma, in Washington County, has about 38,000 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 Washington 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: Bartlesville public records, Washington County arrest records, Oklahoma arrest records and Oklahoma inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Bartlesville
The FBI lists Bartlesville with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Bartlesville Police Department. It reported 602 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 Washington County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 16 arrests for 2025.
How Many Arrests Bartlesville 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.
- Bartlesville: 602 for 2025, 725 for 2024, 586 for 2023, 455 for 2022, 860 for 2021 and 2,115 for 2020.
Bartlesville's 602 arrests in 2025 were down 17 percent from 725 in 2024.
Through July 2026, Bartlesville reported 369 arrests, against 357 in the same months of 2025.
Across Washington County, the four agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 668 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Bartlesville Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Bartlesville 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 180 people, up from about 170 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 260 beds, and it ran at 64 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 Washington County Sheriff's Office at washingtoncosheriff.com/inmate-search (page title: Inmate Search | Washington County Sheriff's Office), phone 877-654-8463, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 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 Oklahoma Department of Corrections lists its inmates at okoffender.doc.ok.gov.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Bartlesville
An arrest in Bartlesville can be traced in three places, depending on where the case stands: the custody page of the Washington County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; OSCN and ODCR, the free online dockets of every Oklahoma district court, which shows whether charges were filed; the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at washingtoncountyok.gov/district-attorney, phone (918) 337-2860).
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 Bartlesville
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 Bartlesville police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at cityofbartlesville.org/departments/police-department/report-a-crime (page title: File a Report | Crime | City of Bartlesville), phone 918.338.4001, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Washington County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 877-654-8463.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, (918) 337-2860, handles discovery for pending cases.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The Washington County guide covers every agency in the county: Washington County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Bartlesville each year?
Bartlesville reported 602 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Bartlesville?
Look on the custody page of the Washington County Sheriff's Office at washingtoncosheriff.com/inmate-search, or call 877-654-8463. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Bartlesville booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Washington County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Bartlesville?
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 Bartlesville?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Bartlesville police for its own arrests, the Washington 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 Bartlesville 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.