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 24, 2026 and October 1, 2026.
Cleveland County, Oklahoma, has about 304,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Cleveland County Sheriff's Office, four city agencies and two campus, state or other 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 Cleveland 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: Cleveland County public records, Oklahoma arrest records, Oklahoma inmate search and Oklahoma criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Cleveland County
The Cleveland County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Cleveland County. It reported 306 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists four cities in Cleveland County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Norman, 131,010 residents: 4,254 arrests reported for 2025.
- Moore, 63,845 residents: 1,143 arrests reported for 2025.
- Noble, 7,779 residents: 94 arrests reported for 2025.
- Lexington, 2,055 residents: 36 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 Oklahoma City Police Department is listed by the FBI across four counties including Cleveland County, so its arrests are not broken out for Cleveland County here.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Cleveland County: the University of Oklahoma at Norman (campus police); Noble Public Schools (other).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Cleveland 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.
- Norman: 4,254 for 2025, 4,373 for 2024, 3,998 for 2023, 3,544 for 2022, 3,125 for 2021 and 1,980 for 2020.
- Moore: 1,143 for 2025, 1,231 for 2024, 980 for 2023, 1,084 for 2022, 877 for 2021 and 1,524 for 2020.
- Cleveland County Sheriff's Office: 306 for 2025, 327 for 2024, 490 for 2023, 550 for 2022, 239 for 2021 and 123 for 2019; 2020 is missing months.
- Noble: 94 for 2025, 67 for 2024, 75 for 2023, 47 for 2022, 67 for 2021 and 73 for 2020.
- Lexington: 36 for 2025, 23 for 2024, 21 for 2023, 18 for 2022, 22 for 2021 and 11 for 2020.
Together, the five agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 5,833 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 5,833 in 2025 against 6,021 in 2024, down 3.1 percent.
Through July 2026, the four agencies with every month so far on file reported 1,015 arrests, against 906 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Cleveland County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Cleveland 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 470 people, up from about 420 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 509 beds, and it ran at 82 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 Cleveland County Sheriff's Office at 74.218.167.200/p2c/jailinmates.aspx (page title: Cleveland County Sheriff Office P2C), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on October 1, 2026.
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 Cleveland County
An arrest in Cleveland County can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: 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 clevelandcountyok.com/176/District-Attorney, phone (405) 321-8268).
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 Cleveland County
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 Cleveland County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Norman, Moore, Noble or Lexington: 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 University of Oklahoma at Norman or Noble Public Schools: the records office of the agency involved.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, (405) 321-8268, handles discovery for pending cases.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at clevelandcountyok.com (page title: Open Records Requests | Cleveland County, OK).
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Cleveland County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for four of the six cities in Cleveland County: Norman, Moore, Noble and Lexington. Slaughterville and Etowah 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 Cleveland County District Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Cleveland 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 Cleveland County each year?
Norman reported 4,254 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the five agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 5,833 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Cleveland County?
Ask the Cleveland County Sheriff's Office; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at 74.218.167.200/p2c/jailinmates.aspx.
Where are people arrested in Cleveland County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Cleveland County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Cleveland 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 Cleveland County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Cleveland 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 clevelandcountyok.com.
Is this the official Cleveland 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.