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 on September 24, 2026.
Deschutes County, Oregon, has about 212,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Deschutes County Sheriff's Office, four 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 Deschutes 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: Deschutes County public records, Oregon arrest records, Oregon inmate search and Oregon criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Deschutes County
The Deschutes County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Deschutes County. It reported 978 arrests for 2025.
Arrests inside two 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:
- Bend, 106,926 residents: 2,587 arrests reported for 2025.
- Redmond, 37,626 residents: 1,108 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 Deschutes County: the Deschutes County Liquor Commission (state agency); the Deschutes County State Police (state police).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Deschutes County
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.
- Bend: 2,587 for 2025, 2,651 for 2024, 2,427 for 2023, 2,312 for 2022, 2,056 for 2021 and 2,148 for 2020.
- Redmond: 1,108 for 2025, 1,020 for 2024, 887 for 2023, 952 for 2022, 981 for 2021 and 1,072 for 2020.
- Deschutes County Sheriff's Office: 978 for 2025, 959 for 2024, 938 for 2023, 941 for 2022, 1,018 for 2021 and 994 for 2020.
- Sunriver: 47 for 2025, 96 for 2024, 67 for 2023, 107 for 2022, 62 for 2020 and 49 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
Together, the four agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 4,720 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 4,720 in 2025 against 4,726 in 2024, down 0.1 percent.
Through August 2026, the three agencies with every month so far on file reported 2,233 arrests, against 2,539 in the same months of 2025.
Black Butte reported only part of 2025 (8 months) and is left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Deschutes County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Deschutes County 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 200 people, down from about 280 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2022, the last year with a capacity figure, was 362 beds, and it ran at 54 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 Deschutes County Sheriff's Office at sheriff.deschutes.org/services/jail/inmate-search (page title: Current Inmate List | Deschutes County Sheriff Office Oregon), phone (541) 388-6661, 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 Deschutes County
An arrest in Deschutes County can be traced in three places, depending on where the case stands: the custody page of the Deschutes County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Deschutes 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/deschutes/records/pages/default.aspx); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at deschutescounty.gov/269/District-Attorneys-Office, phone (541) 388-6520).
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 Deschutes 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 Deschutes County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (541) 388-6661.
- An arrest in Bend or Redmond: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- An arrest by the Deschutes County Liquor Commission or the Deschutes 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, (541) 388-6520, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Deschutes 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 deschutescounty.gov (page title: Public Records Requests | Deschutes County, OR).
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Deschutes County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for two of the four cities in Deschutes County: Bend and Redmond. Sisters and La Pine have no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list. The FBI's list also carries the Black Butte Police Department and the Sunriver Police Department as city agencies in Deschutes County; Black Butte and Sunriver are not among the cities above.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Deschutes County Circuit Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Deschutes County each year?
Bend reported 2,587 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the four agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 4,720 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Deschutes County?
Look on the custody page of the Deschutes County Sheriff's Office at sheriff.deschutes.org, or call (541) 388-6661. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Deschutes County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Deschutes County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Deschutes 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 Deschutes County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Deschutes 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 deschutescounty.gov.
Is this the official Deschutes 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.