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 4, 2026.
Garfield County, Oklahoma, has about 62,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Garfield County Sheriff's Office and six 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 Garfield 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: Garfield County public records, Oklahoma arrest records, Oklahoma inmate search and Oklahoma criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Garfield County
The Garfield County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Garfield County. It reported 67 arrests for 2024, its latest complete year.
The FBI lists six cities in Garfield County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Enid, 50,519 residents: 1,007 arrests reported for 2025.
- Waukomis, 1,325 residents: 14 arrests reported for 2025.
- North Enid, 1,002 residents: 2 arrests reported for 2025.
- Garber, 734 residents: 1 arrests reported for 2025.
- Lahoma, 526 residents: 0 arrests reported for 2025.
- Covington, 469 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.
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Garfield 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.
- Enid: 1,007 for 2025, 853 for 2024, 1,105 for 2023, 1,127 for 2022, 945 for 2021 and 1,793 for 2020.
- Waukomis: 14 for 2025, 16 for 2024, 2 for 2023, 21 for 2022, 21 for 2021 and 47 for 2020.
- North Enid: 2 for 2025, 2 for 2024, 4 for 2023, 7 for 2022, 13 for 2021 and 5 for 2020.
- Garber: 1 for 2025, 1 for 2024, 5 for 2023, 1 for 2022 and 1 for 2021.
- Covington: 1 for 2025, 2 for 2024, 0 for 2023, 1 for 2022, 1 for 2021 and 1 for 2020.
- Lahoma: 0 for 2025, 0 for 2024, 4 for 2023, 7 for 2022, 9 for 2021 and 6 for 2019; 2020 is missing months.
- Garfield County Sheriff's Office: 67 for 2024, 85 for 2023, 112 for 2022, 191 for 2021, 132 for 2020 and 146 for 2019.
Together, the six agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,025 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 1,025 in 2025 against 874 in 2024, up 17 percent.
Garfield County Sheriff's Office reported only part of 2025 (11 months) and is left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Garfield County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Garfield 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 240 people, up from about 240 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 305 beds, and it ran at 78 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 Garfield County Sheriff's Office at garfieldok.com/sheriff (page title: Sheriff | Garfield County), phone 580-237-0244, 216 W. Oxford Ave, Enid, OK 73701, Monday - Friday, 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m., which answered when SearchSystems opened it on October 4, 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 Garfield County
For Garfield County the place to look is the case index of the Garfield County District Court, kept by the Court Clerk, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date.
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at courtclerk.garfieldok.com (page title: Court Clerk | Garfield County Court Clerk), belongs to a lower court, not to the Garfield County District Court.
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 Garfield 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 Garfield County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 580-237-0244.
- An arrest in Enid, Waukomis, North Enid, Garber, Lahoma or Covington: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
- The court file of a case that was filed: in the Garfield County District Court it is kept by the Court Clerk. The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at courtclerk.garfieldok.com, is a lower court's.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Garfield County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for six of the 14 cities in Garfield County: Enid, Waukomis, North Enid, Garber, Lahoma and Covington. Drummond, Kremlin, Breckenridge, Hunter, Fairmont, Carrier, Hillsdale and Douglas 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 Garfield County District Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Garfield County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Enid (50,519)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Garfield County each year?
Enid reported 1,007 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the six agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 1,025 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Garfield County?
Ask the Garfield County Sheriff's Office at 580-237-0244; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at garfieldok.com/sheriff.
Where are people arrested in Garfield County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Garfield County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Garfield 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 Garfield County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Garfield 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 Garfield 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.