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 September 25, 2026.
Osage County, Oklahoma, has about 46,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Osage 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 Osage 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: Osage County public records, Oklahoma arrest records, Oklahoma inmate search and Oklahoma criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Osage County
The Osage County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Osage County. It reported 240 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists six cities in Osage County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Skiatook, 8,879 residents: 228 arrests reported for 2025.
- Hominy, 3,286 residents: 99 arrests reported for 2025.
- Pawhuska, 2,923 residents: 52 arrests reported for 2024.
- Fairfax, 1,102 residents: 3 arrests reported for 2025.
- Barnsdall, 975 residents: 20 arrests reported for 2025.
- Wynona, 383 residents: 0 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 Sperry Police Department, the Sand Springs Police Department, the Bartlesville Police Department and one more are each listed by the FBI across several counties including Osage County, so their arrests are not broken out for Osage County here.
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Osage 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.
- Osage County Sheriff's Office: 240 for 2025, 195 for 2024, 259 for 2023, 261 for 2022, 293 for 2021 and 282 for 2019; 2020 is missing months.
- Skiatook: 228 for 2025, 192 for 2024, 171 for 2023, 154 for 2022, 200 for 2021 and 139 for 2020.
- Hominy: 99 for 2025, 68 for 2024, 77 for 2023, 86 for 2022, 63 for 2021 and 38 for 2020.
- Barnsdall: 20 for 2025, 5 for 2024, 7 for 2023, 15 for 2022, 17 for 2021 and 21 for 2020.
- Fairfax: 3 for 2025, 8 for 2024, 6 for 2023, 9 for 2022, 11 for 2021 and 10 for 2020.
- Wynona: 0 for 2025, 0 for 2024, 0 for 2023, 0 for 2022, 0 for 2021 and 0 for 2020.
- Pawhuska: 52 for 2024, 90 for 2023, 171 for 2022, 108 for 2021, 113 for 2020 and 107 for 2019.
Together, the six agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 590 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 590 in 2025 against 468 in 2024, up 26 percent.
Through May 2026, the five agencies with every month so far on file reported 255 arrests, against 242 in the same months of 2025.
Pawhuska reported only part of 2025 (11 months) and is left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Osage County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Osage 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 130 people, up from about 130 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 168 beds, and it ran at 76 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 Osage County Sheriff's Office at osagecountyok.gov/current-inmates (page title: Osage County Jail Current Inmates | Osage 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 Osage County
Whether someone was arrested in Osage County, and what came of it, shows up in three places: the custody page of the Osage County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Osage County District Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at osage.okcounties.org/offices/court-clerk, phone 918-287-4104); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at osage.okcounties.org/offices/district-attorney, phone (918) 287-1510).
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 Osage 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 Osage County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 877-654-8463.
- An arrest in Skiatook, Hominy, Pawhuska, Fairfax, Barnsdall or Wynona: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, (918) 287-1510, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Osage County District Court, through the court records page at osage.okcounties.org/offices/court-clerk, phone 918-287-4104.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Osage County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for six of the 14 cities in Osage County: Skiatook, Hominy, Pawhuska, Fairfax, Barnsdall and Wynona. Prue, Shidler, Avant, Osage, Burbank, Webb City, Grainola and Foraker 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 Osage County District Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Osage County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Skiatook (8,879)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Osage County each year?
The Osage County Sheriff's Office reported 240 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the six agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 590 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Osage County?
Look on the custody page of the Osage County Sheriff's Office at osagecountyok.gov/current-inmates, or call 877-654-8463. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Osage County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Osage County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Osage 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 Osage County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Osage 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 Osage 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.