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 October 2, 2026.
Winston, Oregon, in Douglas County, has about 5,700 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 Douglas 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: Winston public records, Douglas County arrest records, Oregon arrest records and Oregon inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Winston
The FBI lists Winston with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Winston Police Department. It reported 344 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 Douglas County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 1,244 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Douglas County: the Douglas County Liquor Commission (state agency); the Douglas County State Police (state police).
How Many Arrests Winston 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.
- Winston: 344 for 2025, 255 for 2024, 308 for 2023, 209 for 2022, 271 for 2021 and 276 for 2020.
Winston's 344 arrests in 2025 were up 35 percent from 255 in 2024.
Across Douglas County, the six agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 4,330 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Winston Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Winston 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 150 people, down from about 200 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 281 beds, and it ran at 52 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 Douglas County Sheriff's Office at jailviewer.douglascountyor.gov/Home/BookingSearchResult (page title: Booking Search Results), a site that blocks automated checks (HTTP 403), so open it in a browser.
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 Winston
An arrest in Winston can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the custody page of the Douglas County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Douglas 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/douglas/records/pages/default.aspx).
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 Winston
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 Winston police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at winstoncity.org/departments/winston-pd/pd-records (page title: Records | City of Winston Oregon), phone (541) 679-8706, 131 Rose Ave Winston, OR 97496, Monday - Friday: 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Douglas County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Douglas County Circuit Court, through the court records page at courts.oregon.gov.
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The Douglas County guide covers every agency in the county: Douglas County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Winston each year?
Winston reported 344 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
Where are people arrested in Winston booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Douglas County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Winston?
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 Winston?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Winston police for its own arrests, the Douglas 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 Winston 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.