Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones the agency reported to the FBI, through 2024. 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 2, 2026.
Albany, Oregon, in Linn County, has about 57,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and its arrests are reported to the FBI by an agency of its own. An arrest in the city 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 Linn County Circuit Court. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it, with the arrest counts the agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies and common questions.
Related guides: Albany public records, Linn County arrest records, Oregon arrest records and Oregon inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Albany
The FBI lists Albany with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Albany Police Department. It reported 1,619 arrests for 2024, its latest complete year. A city is listed separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.
Outside the city, the Linn County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 872 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Linn County: the Linn County State Police (state police); the Linn County Liquor Commission (state agency).
How Many Arrests Albany Reports
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.
- Albany: 1,619 for 2024, 1,571 for 2023, 1,709 for 2022, 1,813 for 2021, 2,672 for 2020 and 3,269 for 2019.
Albany's 1,619 arrests in 2024 were up 3.1 percent from 1,571 in 2023.
Across Linn County, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,496 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Albany Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Albany 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 170 people, down from about 200 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 231 beds, and it ran at 73 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 Oregon Department of Corrections, whose inmate locator is at oregon.gov/doc/victim-services/pages/offender-search.aspx.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Albany
For Albany the place to look is the case index of the Linn County Circuit Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at courts.oregon.gov/courts/linn/records/pages/default.aspx, phone 888-896-4988).
Statewide, Oregon eCourt Case Information is the Oregon Judicial Department's online case search, free for basic case information.
Oregon is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: an Open Record Request returns anyone's Oregon conviction record by name, and the subject is told who asked, for $10 a search, through the Oregon State Police. 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 Albany
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 Oregon Public Records Law the agency must answer within 15 business days where practicable, after acknowledging the request within 5, and it may charge the actual cost of making the record available.
- An arrest by the Albany police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at albanyoregon.gov/cm/recorder/public-records (page title: Records Requests), phone 541-917-7532, 333 Broadalbin St SW Albany, OR 97321, Mon-Fri; 8am-5pm, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Linn County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Linn County Circuit Court, through the court records page at courts.oregon.gov, phone 888-896-4988.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The Linn County guide covers every agency in the county: Linn County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Albany each year?
Albany reported 1,619 arrests to the FBI for 2024, its latest full year.
Where are people arrested in Albany booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Linn County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Albany?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Oregon State Police: an Open Record Request returns anyone's Oregon conviction record by name, and the subject is told who asked, for $10. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Oregon Public Records Law.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Albany?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Albany police for its own arrests, the Linn County Sheriff's Office for the sheriff's. Under the Oregon Public Records Law the answer is due within 15 business days where practicable, after acknowledging the request within 5.
Is this the official Albany website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official city, county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.