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 9, 2026.
Woodward County, Oklahoma, has about 20,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Woodward County Sheriff's Office and two 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 Woodward 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: Woodward County public records, Oklahoma arrest records, Oklahoma inmate search and Oklahoma criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Woodward County
The Woodward County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Woodward County. It reported 51 arrests for 2025.
Arrests inside two 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:
- Woodward, 11,750 residents: 306 arrests reported for 2025.
- Mooreland, 1,135 residents: 7 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 Woodward 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.
- Woodward: 306 for 2025, 224 for 2024, 268 for 2023, 237 for 2022, 305 for 2021 and 401 for 2020.
- Woodward County Sheriff's Office: 51 for 2025, 43 for 2024, 54 for 2023, 57 for 2022, 52 for 2021 and 38 for 2020.
- Mooreland: 7 for 2025, 9 for 2024, 13 for 2023, 7 for 2022, 6 for 2021 and 28 for 2020.
Together, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 364 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 364 in 2025 against 276 in 2024, up 32 percent.
Through June 2026, the three agencies with every month so far on file reported 204 arrests, against 182 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Woodward County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Woodward 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 43 people, down from about 90 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 142 beds, and it ran at 63 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
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 Woodward County
An arrest in Woodward County can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the case index of the Woodward County District Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at woodward.okcounties.org/offices/court-clerk, phone 580.256.3413); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at woodward.okcounties.org/offices/district-attorney, phone 580.256.8616).
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 Woodward 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 Woodward County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Woodward or Mooreland: 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, 580.256.8616, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Woodward County District Court, through the court records page at woodward.okcounties.org/offices/court-clerk, phone 580.256.3413.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The other Woodward County guides go further: police reports.
Cities in Woodward County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for two of the five cities in Woodward County: Woodward and Mooreland. Fort Supply, Sharon and Mutual 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 Woodward County District Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Woodward County each year?
Woodward reported 306 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the three agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 364 between them.
Where are people arrested in Woodward County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Woodward County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Woodward 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 Woodward County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Woodward 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 Woodward 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.