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 between September 30, 2026 and October 2, 2026.
Atoka County, Oklahoma, has about 15,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Atoka County Sheriff's Office and four 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 District Attorney files charges, a case in the Atoka County District Court. 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: Atoka County public records, Oklahoma arrest records, Oklahoma inmate search and Oklahoma criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Atoka County
The Atoka County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Atoka County. It reported 91 arrests for 2025.
Arrests inside four 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:
- Atoka, 2,925 residents: 324 arrests reported for 2025.
- Stringtown, 433 residents: 18 arrests reported for 2025.
- Tushka, 427 residents: 20 arrests reported for 2025.
- Caney, 192 residents: 2 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.
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Atoka 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.
- Atoka: 324 for 2025, 402 for 2024, 309 for 2023, 292 for 2022, 181 for 2021 and 167 for 2020.
- Atoka County Sheriff's Office: 91 for 2025, 52 for 2024, 60 for 2023, 58 for 2022, 51 for 2021 and 18 for 2020.
- Tushka: 20 for 2025, 32 for 2024, 9 for 2023, 8 for 2022, 23 for 2021 and 20 for 2020.
- Stringtown: 18 for 2025, 6 for 2024, 3 for 2023, 10 for 2022, 24 for 2021 and 23 for 2020.
- Caney: 2 for 2025, 5 for 2024, 7 for 2023, 3 for 2022, 6 for 2021 and 13 for 2020.
Together, the five agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 455 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 455 in 2025 against 497 in 2024, down 8.5 percent.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Atoka County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Atoka 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 42 people, up from about 41 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 39 beds, and it ran at 105 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 Atoka County Sheriff's Office at atokacountysheriff.com (page title: Atoka County Jail Roster Lookup, OK, Inmate Search), a site that blocks automated checks (HTTP 403), so open it in a browser.
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 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 Atoka County
Whether someone was arrested in Atoka County, and what came of it, shows up in three places: the custody page of the Atoka 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 findcityoffice.com/offices/district-attorney-office/OK/atoka-county..., phone 580-889-6624).
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 Atoka 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 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 Atoka County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Atoka, Stringtown, Tushka or Caney: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 580-889-6624, handles discovery for pending cases.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at okc.gov (page title: Open Records Act | City of OKC).
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Atoka County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for every one of the four cities in Atoka County: Atoka, Stringtown, Tushka and Caney.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Atoka County District Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Atoka County each year?
Atoka reported 324 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the five agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 455 between them.
Where are people arrested in Atoka County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Atoka County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Atoka County?
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 Atoka County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Atoka County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. Under the Oklahoma Open Records Act the answer is due promptly; the statute sets no number of days; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at okc.gov.
Is this the official Atoka 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.