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.
Grants Pass, Oregon, in Josephine County, has about 39,000 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 Josephine 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: Grants Pass public records, Josephine County arrest records, Oregon arrest records and Oregon inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Grants Pass
The FBI lists Grants Pass with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Grants Pass Police Department. It reported 1,559 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 Josephine County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 458 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Josephine County: the Josephine County Liquor Commission (state agency); the Josephine County State Police (state police).
How Many Arrests Grants Pass Reports
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.
- Grants Pass: 1,559 for 2025, 1,203 for 2024, 703 for 2023, 894 for 2022, 1,112 for 2021 and 1,439 for 2020.
Grants Pass's 1,559 arrests in 2025 were up 30 percent from 1,203 in 2024.
Through July 2026, Grants Pass reported 977 arrests, against 843 in the same months of 2025.
Across Josephine County, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 2,017 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Grants Pass Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Grants Pass 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 160 people, down from about 160 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 183 beds, and it ran at 85 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 Josephine County Sheriff's Office at josephinecounty.gov/government/sheriff/jail/index.php (page title: Jail), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 2026.
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 Grants Pass
Whether someone was arrested in Grants Pass, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Josephine 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/josephine/records/pages/default.aspx); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at josephinecounty.gov/government/district_attorney/index.php, phone (541) 474-5200).
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 Grants Pass
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 Grants Pass police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at grantspassoregon.gov/577/Police-Report-Request (page title: Police Report Request | Grants Pass, OR), phone 541-450-6260, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Josephine County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, (541) 474-5200, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Josephine County Circuit Court, through the court records page at courts.oregon.gov.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at josephinecounty.gov (page title: Josephine County, OR).
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The Josephine County guide covers every agency in the county: Josephine County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Grants Pass each year?
Grants Pass reported 1,559 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Grants Pass?
Ask the Josephine County Sheriff's Office; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at josephinecounty.gov.
Where are people arrested in Grants Pass booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Josephine County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Grants Pass?
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 Grants Pass?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Grants Pass police for its own arrests, the Josephine 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; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at josephinecounty.gov.
Is this the official Grants Pass 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.