Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones each agency reported to the FBI, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026. 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.
Clatsop County, Oregon, has about 41,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Clatsop County Sheriff's Office, five city agencies and two campus, state or other agencies. An arrest 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 Clatsop County Circuit Court. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it, with the arrest counts each agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies, cities and common questions.
Related guides: Clatsop County public records, Oregon arrest records, Oregon inmate search and Oregon criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Clatsop County
The Clatsop County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Clatsop County. It reported 184 arrests for 2025.
Arrests inside five of the county's cities are reported to the FBI by an agency of the city's own, listed here with the Census population and what each reported:
- Astoria, 9,906 residents: 379 arrests reported for 2025.
- Seaside, 7,110 residents: 279 arrests reported for 2025.
- Warrenton, 6,324 residents: 272 arrests reported for 2025.
- Gearhart, 1,872 residents: 8 arrests reported for 2023.
- Cannon Beach, 1,500 residents: 31 arrests reported for 2025.
A city on that list is reported separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Clatsop County: the Clatsop County Liquor Commission (state agency); the Clatsop County State Police (state police).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Clatsop County
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.
- Astoria: 379 for 2025, 314 for 2024, 304 for 2023, 271 for 2022, 399 for 2021 and 369 for 2020.
- Seaside: 279 for 2025, 306 for 2024, 399 for 2023, 282 for 2022, 380 for 2021 and 502 for 2019; 2020 is missing months.
- Warrenton: 272 for 2025, 353 for 2024, 374 for 2023, 458 for 2022, 470 for 2020 and 570 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
- Clatsop County Sheriff's Office: 184 for 2025, 170 for 2024, 143 for 2023, 120 for 2022, 117 for 2021 and 147 for 2020.
- Cannon Beach: 31 for 2025, 51 for 2024, 41 for 2022, 17 for 2021, 62 for 2020 and 40 for 2019; 2023 is missing months.
- Gearhart: 8 for 2023 and 6 for 2019; 2020, 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
Together, the five agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,145 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 1,145 in 2025 against 1,194 in 2024, down 4.1 percent.
Through March 2026, the four agencies with every month so far on file reported 193 arrests, against 193 in the same months of 2025.
Gearhart reported only part of 2025 (11 months) and is left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Clatsop County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Clatsop County 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 55 people, down from about 61 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 64 beds, and it ran at 95 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 Clatsop County Sheriff's Office at apps.clatsopcounty.gov/jail (page title: Clatsop County Jail Roster), 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 Clatsop County
Whether someone was arrested in Clatsop County, and what came of it, shows up in three places: the custody page of the Clatsop County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Clatsop 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/clatsop/records/pages/default.aspx); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at clatsopcounty.gov/604/District-Attorney, phone 503-325-8581).
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 Clatsop County
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 Clatsop County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Astoria, Seaside, Warrenton, Gearhart or Cannon Beach: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
- An arrest by the Clatsop County Liquor Commission or the Clatsop County State Police: the records office of the agency involved.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 503-325-8581, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Clatsop 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 clatsopcountyor.nextrequest.com (page title: Public Records RequestsNextRequest | Modern FOIA & Public Records Request Software).
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Clatsop County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for every one of the five cities in Clatsop County: Astoria, Seaside, Warrenton, Gearhart and Cannon Beach.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Clatsop County Circuit Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Clatsop County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Astoria (9,906)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Clatsop County each year?
Astoria reported 379 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the five agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 1,145 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Clatsop County?
Look on the custody page of the Clatsop County Sheriff's Office at apps.clatsopcounty.gov/jail. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Clatsop County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Clatsop County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Clatsop County?
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 Clatsop County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Clatsop County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. 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 clatsopcountyor.nextrequest.com.
Is this the official Clatsop County website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.