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 2025. 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 26, 2026.
Ashland, Oregon, in Jackson County, has about 21,000 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 Jackson 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: Ashland public records, Jackson County arrest records, Oregon arrest records and Oregon inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Ashland
The FBI lists Ashland with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Ashland Police Department. It reported 776 arrests for 2025. 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 Jackson County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 3,508 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Jackson County: the Jackson County Liquor Commission (state agency); the Jackson County State Police (state police).
How Many Arrests Ashland 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.
- Ashland: 776 for 2025, 848 for 2024, 547 for 2023, 524 for 2022, 523 for 2021 and 903 for 2020.
Ashland's 776 arrests in 2025 were down 8.5 percent from 848 in 2024.
Through June 2026, Ashland reported 395 arrests, against 368 in the same months of 2025.
Across Jackson County, the nine agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 17,596 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Ashland Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Ashland 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 330 people, down from about 350 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 346 beds, and it ran at 97 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 Jackson County Sheriff's Office at jacksoncountyso.com/inmate-search (page title: Inmate Search | Jackson 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 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 Ashland
Whether someone was arrested in Ashland, and what came of it, shows up in three places: the custody page of the Jackson County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Jackson 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/jackson/records/pages/default.aspx, phone 541-776-7171); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at jacksoncountyor.gov/departments/district_attorney/index.php, phone 541-774-8181).
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 Ashland
An arrest report belongs to the agency whose officer wrote it, and that agency releases it, not the court or the jail. 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 Ashland police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at ashlandoregon.gov/521/Contact-Us (page title: Contact Us | Ashland, OR), phone 541-488-2211, 1155 East Main Street Ashland, OR 97520, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Jackson County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 877-654-8463.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 541-774-8181, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Jackson County Circuit Court, through the court records page at courts.oregon.gov, phone 541-776-7171.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The Jackson County guide covers every agency in the county: Jackson County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Ashland each year?
Ashland reported 776 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Ashland?
Look on the custody page of the Jackson County Sheriff's Office at jacksoncountyso.com/inmate-search, or call 877-654-8463. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Ashland booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Jackson County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Ashland?
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 Ashland?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Ashland police for its own arrests, the Jackson 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 Ashland 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.