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 27, 2026.
Lincoln City, Oregon, in Lincoln County, has about 10,000 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 Lincoln 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: Lincoln City public records, Lincoln County arrest records, Oregon arrest records and Oregon inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Lincoln City
The FBI lists Lincoln City with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Lincoln City Police Department. It reported 533 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 Lincoln County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 418 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Lincoln County: the Lincoln County Liquor Commission (state agency); the Lincoln County State Police (state police).
How Many Arrests Lincoln City 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.
- Lincoln City: 533 for 2025, 453 for 2024, 443 for 2023, 334 for 2022, 404 for 2021 and 358 for 2020.
Lincoln City's 533 arrests in 2025 were up 18 percent from 453 in 2024.
Through August 2026, Lincoln City reported 283 arrests, against 360 in the same months of 2025.
Across Lincoln County, the four agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,561 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Lincoln City Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Lincoln City 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 120 people, down from about 160 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 161 beds, and it ran at 100 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 Lincoln County Sheriff's Office at p2c.lincolnsheriff.org/jailinmates.aspx (page title: Lincoln County Sheriffs Office P2C), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 27, 2026.
A sentence of more than a year is served in state prison; the Oregon Department of Corrections lists its inmates at oregon.gov/doc/victim-services/pages/offender-search.aspx.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Lincoln City
Whether someone was arrested in Lincoln City, and what came of it, shows up in two places: Oregon eCourt Case Information, the Oregon Judicial Department's online case search, free for basic case information, which shows whether charges were filed; the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at co.lincoln.or.us/m/directory/department?did=20, phone 541-265-0425).
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 Lincoln City
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 Lincoln City police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at lincolncityor.gov/departments/police-department/records-property-room (page title: Records & Property Room | City of Lincoln City, OR), phone 541-994-3636, 1503 SE East Devils Lake Rd 801 SW Highway 101 Lincoln City, OR 97367, Monday - Friday 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 541-265-0425, handles discovery for pending cases.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at co.lincoln.or.us/564/Public-Records-Requests (page title: Public Records Requests | Lincoln County, OR).
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The Lincoln County guide covers every agency in the county: Lincoln County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Lincoln City each year?
Lincoln City reported 533 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Lincoln City?
Ask the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at p2c.lincolnsheriff.org/jailinmates.aspx.
Where are people arrested in Lincoln City booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Lincoln City?
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 Lincoln City?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Lincoln City police for its own arrests, the Lincoln 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 co.lincoln.or.us/564/Public-Records-Requests.
Is this the official Lincoln City 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.