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.
Gilliam County, Oregon, has about 2,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Gilliam County Sheriff's Office 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 Gilliam 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: Gilliam County public records, Oregon arrest records, Oregon inmate search and Oregon criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Gilliam County
The Gilliam County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Gilliam County. It reported 62 arrests for 2025.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Gilliam County: the Gilliam County Liquor Commission (state agency); the Gilliam County State Police (state police).
How Many Arrests The Gilliam County Sheriff's Office 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.
- Gilliam County Sheriff's Office: 62 for 2025, 52 for 2024, 50 for 2023, 60 for 2022, 73 for 2021 and 66 for 2020.
The Gilliam County Sheriff's Office's 62 arrests in 2025 were up 19 percent from 52 in 2024.
Through August 2026, Gilliam County Sheriff's Office reported 44 arrests, against 42 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Gilliam County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Gilliam 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 5 people, down from about 5 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023 was 6 beds, and it ran at 78 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 Gilliam County Sheriff's Office at gilliamcountyor.gov/government/offices/sheriff/index.php (page title: Gilliam County, OR), phone 541-351-9530, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 2026.
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 Gilliam County
Whether someone was arrested in Gilliam County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Gilliam 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/gilliam/records/pages/default.aspx); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at gilliamcountyor.gov/government/offices/district_attorney/index.php, phone 541-351-9500).
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 Gilliam County
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 Gilliam County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 541-351-9530.
- An arrest by the Gilliam County Liquor Commission or the Gilliam 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, 541-351-9500, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Gilliam 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 gilliamcountyor.gov (page title: Gilliam County, OR).
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Gilliam County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists no city in Gilliam County with an arrest reporting agency of its own; the counts above are the county agencies'.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Gilliam County Circuit Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Gilliam County each year?
The Gilliam County Sheriff's Office reported 62 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Gilliam County?
Ask the Gilliam County Sheriff's Office at 541-351-9530; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at gilliamcountyor.gov.
Where are people arrested in Gilliam County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Gilliam County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Gilliam 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 Gilliam County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Gilliam 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 gilliamcountyor.gov.
Is this the official Gilliam 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.