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 25, 2026 and September 30, 2026.
Beckham County, Oklahoma, has about 22,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Beckham County Sheriff's Office, three 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 District Attorney files charges, a case in the Beckham 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: Beckham County public records, Oklahoma arrest records, Oklahoma inmate search and Oklahoma criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Beckham County
The Beckham County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Beckham County. It reported 76 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists three cities in Beckham County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Elk City, 11,383 residents: 258 arrests reported for 2025.
- Sayre, 4,841 residents: 9 arrests reported for 2025.
- Erick, 982 residents: 1 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 Beckham County: Sayre Public Schools (other).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Beckham 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.
- Elk City: 258 for 2025, 250 for 2024, 295 for 2023, 353 for 2022, 338 for 2021 and 283 for 2020.
- Beckham County Sheriff's Office: 76 for 2025, 39 for 2024, 76 for 2023, 37 for 2022, 54 for 2021 and 34 for 2020.
- Sayre: 9 for 2025, 14 for 2024, 17 for 2023, 13 for 2022, 18 for 2021 and 11 for 2020.
- Erick: 1 for 2025, 0 for 2024, 1 for 2023, 2 for 2022, 0 for 2021 and 3 for 2020.
Together, the four agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 344 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 344 in 2025 against 303 in 2024, up 14 percent.
Through July 2026, the four agencies with every month so far on file reported 173 arrests, against 188 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Beckham County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Beckham County 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 89 people, up from about 84 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 122 beds, and it ran at 69 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 Beckham County Sheriff's Office at beckham.okcounties.org/offices/county-sheriff (page title: County Sheriff), phone 580.928.2121, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 30, 2026.
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 Beckham County
For Beckham County the place to look is the case index of the Beckham County District Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at beckham.okcounties.org/offices/court-clerk, phone 580.928.3330).
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 Beckham 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 Beckham County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 580.928.2121.
- An arrest in Elk City, Sayre or Erick: 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 Sayre Public Schools: the records office of the agency involved.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Beckham County District Court, through the court records page at beckham.okcounties.org/offices/court-clerk, phone 580.928.3330.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Beckham County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for three of the six cities in Beckham County: Elk City, Sayre and Erick. Carter, Sweetwater and Texola 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 Beckham County District Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Beckham County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Elk City (11,383)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Beckham County each year?
Elk City reported 258 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the four agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 344 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Beckham County?
Ask the Beckham County Sheriff's Office at 580.928.2121; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at beckham.okcounties.org/offices/county-sheriff.
Where are people arrested in Beckham County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Beckham County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Beckham 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 Beckham County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Beckham 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.
Is this the official Beckham 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.