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 30, 2026.
Milwaukie, Oregon, in Clackamas County, has about 22,000 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 Clackamas 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: Milwaukie public records, Clackamas County arrest records, Oregon arrest records and Oregon inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Milwaukie
The FBI lists Milwaukie with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Milwaukie Police Department. It reported 473 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 Clackamas County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 7,828 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Clackamas County: the Clackamas County Liquor Commission (state agency); the Clackamas County State Police (state police).
How Many Arrests Milwaukie 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.
- Milwaukie: 473 for 2025, 485 for 2024, 308 for 2020 and 395 for 2019; 2021, 2022 and 2023 are missing months.
Milwaukie's 473 arrests in 2025 were down 2.5 percent from 485 in 2024.
Through July 2026, Milwaukie reported 342 arrests, against 268 in the same months of 2025.
Across Clackamas County, the eight agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 10,537 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Milwaukie Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Milwaukie 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 310 people, down from about 470 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 491 beds, and it ran at 64 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 Clackamas County Sheriff's Office at apps.clackamas.us/roster (page title: Roster Application | Warrant Check), phone 503-785-5210, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 28, 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 Milwaukie
Whether someone was arrested in Milwaukie, and what came of it, shows up in three places: the custody page of the Clackamas County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Clackamas 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/clackamas/pages/default.aspx, phone 503-655-8447); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at clackamas.us/da, phone 503-655-8431).
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 Milwaukie
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 Milwaukie police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at milwaukieoregon.gov/departments/police/services/request_police_repo... (page title: City of Milwaukie Oregon Official Website), phone 503.786.7500, Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Clackamas County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 503-785-5210.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 503-655-8431, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Clackamas County Circuit Court, through the court records page at courts.oregon.gov, phone 503-655-8447.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at clackamas.us/rm/policy.html (page title: Requesting Public Records | Clackamas County).
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The Clackamas County guide covers every agency in the county: Clackamas County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Milwaukie each year?
Milwaukie reported 473 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Milwaukie?
Look on the custody page of the Clackamas County Sheriff's Office at apps.clackamas.us/roster, or call 503-785-5210. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Milwaukie booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Clackamas County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Milwaukie?
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 Milwaukie?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Milwaukie police for its own arrests, the Clackamas 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 clackamas.us/rm/policy.html.
Is this the official Milwaukie 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.